The Democratic presidential candidate needs to improve his standing in the polls to make the stage.
Beto O’Rourke
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The 2019 Texas Tribune Festival
The 2019 Texas Tribune Festival starts today. Here’s what you need to know.
The ninth annual Texas Tribune Festival couldn’t be happening at a more newsworthy time. This year’s event features House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, a slate of presidential candidates and more.
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The 2019 Texas Tribune Festival
Watch Beto O’Rourke speak at the 2019 Texas Tribune Festival
Beto O’Rourke, the former congressman from El Paso, talked with MSNBC Washington Correspondent Garrett Haake about his race for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
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Politics
Analysis: Texas gun laws might not change, but the conversation is evolving
Repeated mass shootings can change officials’ minds about their policy stances. After recent massacres, Texas politicians and officeholders are talking about guns in new ways.
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Criminal Justice
O’Rourke’s plan to legalize marijuana includes clemency for possession sentences and grants for those who already served time
For his latest policy proposal, the Democratic presidential candidate returns to a cause he has championed since his days on the El Paso City Council.
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Politics
Donald Trump calls Beto O’Rourke “dummy” over assault-weapon buyback proposal
In a tweet Wednesday morning, the president said presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is making it harder to make a deal regarding gun control.
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Beto O’Rourke’s call for mandatory buyback of assault weapons roils Texas politics
The Democratic presidential candidate’s proposal has upended the gun debate nationwide, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in Texas. It’s here that both parties are facing internal divisions as they work to respond to recent shootings in El Paso and Odessa.
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Beto O’Rourke looks to reactivate suburban strength in Texas
After falling to third in recent Texas polls, the Democratic presidential candidates barnstorms the suburbs that help tell the story of his breakthrough 2018 U.S. Senate campaign.
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Texas Republican lawmaker to Beto O’Rourke: “My AR is ready for you”
State Rep. Briscoe Cain’s tweet was taken as a death threat against a presidential candidate from a state that recently experienced two mass shootings.
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Beto O’Rourke gets debate moment: “Hell yes, we’re going to take your” assault weapons
The Democratic presidential candidate offered an unapologetic defense of his proposal to mandate buybacks of assault weapons.