“Candidate Biden didn’t spend a dime or a day in the Rio Grande Valley—or really anywhere in Texas, for that matter—once we got down in the homestretch of the general election,” O’Rourke said at the Texas Tribune Festival on Sept. 24.
“You got to be locking eyeballs with the people that you want to fight for and serve and whose votes that you want to win.” …
“Republicans showed up with a very strong, compelling economic message,” O’Rourke said Saturday when asked why the Hispanic voters in Texas shifted to GOP candidates.
“From Trump, it was literally one syllable, one word,” O’Rourke continued. “It was ‘jobs,’ and he kind of offered a false choice: ‘I can either keep you holed up in your house during this pandemic, or I can open up all places of employment and prioritize the economy.’”
“What did we have on our side? Nothing,” he added.
[And they still don’t have anything — Ed]
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