Beto O'Rourke wont defer to Joaquin Castro in mulling U.S. Senate bid [View all]
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U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-El Paso, said at the state Capitol on Saturday that U.S. Rep. Joaquín Castro, D-San Antonio, would make a great U.S. senator. But O’Rourke said he doesn’t plan on deferring to Castro in making his own decision about whether to seek the Democratic nomination to challenge GOP U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018.
“I’ll say this about Joaquín, I think he is a great person, a very good friend. He would make an outstanding candidate for the Senate and would be a terrific senator from the state of Texas,” O’Rourke said. “And I know that he’s got a decision that he needs to make. But I want folks to understand that I have nothing but respect for Joaquín and, yet, I can’t make any of the decisions I can control based on him or anyone else, so I’ve just got to do what I think is best for the state of Texas.”
O’Rourke made the comments in an interview with the American-Statesman in front of the Tejano Monument just before the “No Ban/No Wall” rally protesting the Trump administration’s border and immigration policies. Both O’Rourke and Castro spoke during the rally.
Two Saturdays ago, Castro told about 300 supporters at the Scoot Inn in East Austin that he would make a decision on whether to run for the Senate in eight weeks.
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