“We can put Texas in play, and furthermore, we can win Texas,” O’Rourke, the former congressman from El Paso, Texas, told a panel of reporters on MSNBC.
“I'm going to make sure that the rest of America hears that story because the number one priority for voters right now is defeating Donald Trump in 2020.”of Texan registered voters that showed him with an 11 percentage point lead over Trump in a hypothetical general election match-up, the biggest lead of any 2020 Democrat.
The former congressman jumped into the presidential race earlier this year fresh off of his high-profile but unsuccessful bid in Texas to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz. Despite an avalanche of donations and national press attention, O'Rourke lost to Cruz by 2.6 points in Texas, a defeat that nonetheless put him among the most successful Democrats to run statewide in Texas in years.
Buoyed by his high-profile Senate bid, O'Rourke jumped into the presidential race earlier this year and seemed poised to command a front-runner position. Instead, the former congressman's campaign has stalled as his support in national polls has
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