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Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke said Friday that he had not yet decided whether to pursue a presidential bid in 2020 Democratic primaries. He did, however, give some insight into his potential campaign strategy by outlining how he could beat President Donald Trump to his El Paso constituents.
“Whoever is running [against Trump] may very well be running against somebody who has not the slightest respect for our norms, traditions, institutions, civility, dignity, decency in public life,” O’Rourke said at his last-ever Congressional town hall meeting in Texas.
“This is the test, this is the mother of all tests for this democracy–whether we can run a campaign and have candidates at all levels from school board to the White House who are willing to focus on issues, on our potential, on our future, instead of our fears, instead of attacking one another personally and going for base impulses.”
O’Rourke, who made the case for crossing political lines and overcoming fear and negativity during his failed 2018 senatorial election against Texas incumbent Ted Cruz, said that America was in currently in a dark place. “I know that something good is going to come out of all of this at the end of the day, but there has never been a darker moment in this country, at least in my lifetime. All of us are the answer to that,” he told the crowd.
When asked if he had decided to run for the presidential bid, or perhaps take another go at a Texas senatorial seat, O’Rourke said he hadn’t figured it out yet.