(CNN) — Days after former Vice President and current Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden said he would partner with former US Rep. Beto O’Rourke to help combat gun violence, Republican congressman Ken Buck dared the duo to come “take” the semi-automatic rifle he keeps on his office wall. In a video posted to his Twitter account on Friday, Buck, a Republican […]
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Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke announced Friday that he is ending his 2020 presidential campaign, hours ahead of a marquee dinner in Iowa. O’Rourke told supporters in an email that he will not run for office next year. That means he will also not become a Senate candidate in Texas, despite pleas from some Democrats […]
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Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke struggled to explain on Wednesday how he would make people who wish to do harm with an assault-style weapon to comply with his proposed mandatory gun buyback, a plan that divided Democrats at Tuesday’s primary debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times. O’Rourke’s plan includes a ban on assault-style weapons and […]
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Twitter has removed a Texas state lawmaker’s post that was seen as a threat to presidential candidate Beto Rourke for his comments about his plan for a mandatory gun buyback program during Thursday’s Democratic debate. During the debate, O’Rourke reiterated his support for a mandatory buyback of assault-style rifles — a proposal he backed in the wake of […]
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Democratic presidential candidate and El Paso, Texas, native Beto O’Rourke said that President Donald Trump was a white nationalist after a mass shooting in El Paso on Saturday left 20 dead and a separate rampage hours later killed nine more in Dayton, Ohio. CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday asked O’Rourke, a former El Paso congressman: “Do you think President […]
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While speaking at the National Action Network convention, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke said that he would support legislation for a slavery reparations commission if he were to win the presidency in 2020.
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Rep. Beto O’Rourke, the Democrat from El Paso, Texas, who is waging a credible challenge to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz for his seat this November, defended NFL players’ right to protest in a video that has gone viral since it was posted on Tuesday. O’Rourke was asked at a campaign town hall if he thought […]