Democratic Senate hopeful O'Rourke draws another Waco crowd
Beto O’Rourke, an El Paso congressman Texas Democrats hope will upend the state’s decades of Republican representation in the U.S. Senate, continued his campaign in Waco on Wednesday night with a call to civic action.
“What if we delivered on the very high expectations that we’re setting for one another at this moment?” said O’Rourke, a three-term congressman challenging U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in November. “Might that not invite people back into their democracy, a common understanding of who we are not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans?”
The town hall meeting at Mutualista Hall was O’Rourke’s sixth stop in McLennan County in the last 16 months. He has previously rallied supporters at Common Grounds, the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum, Heritage Creamery, a Texas Tribune interview at McLennan Community College and local neighborhoods in a May block-walking session.
He drew more than 750 people Wednesday, a turnout local observers said they have not seen for a Democratic candidate in decades.
Read more: https://www.wacotrib.com/news/politics/democratic-senate-hopeful-o-rourke-draws-another-waco-crowd/article_d01ea278-a96c-53db-ab93-e8fb582edc0a.html?block_id=1367094
A photo at the link shows that it was a standing room only crowd at the Mutualista Hall.
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