Beto O'Rourke boosts Latino outreach to fuel uphill battle against Greg Abbott
O'Rourke, making one of his first appearances since a bacterial infection had sidelined him, spoke passionately on a wide range of issues including abortion, immigration, and ending"the schoolhouse to jailhouse pipeline" for Latino students who are disproportionately suspended and expelled — all issues that his campaign believes he can win on in November to defeat GovernorBut beyond organizing and spending the candidate's precious time in heavily-Hispanic metropolitan cities...
on the airwaves to get our message out to different voters, which was not a factor with Lupe Valdez or Wendy Davis," campaign spokesman Chris Evans toldThe stakes in the Latino community are high. When O'Rourke faced off against Senatorin 2018, 26% of the electorate were Hispanic. In 2020, 30% of eligible voters in Texas were Latino.
Laura Hernandez, a co-founder of Pescador, emphasized that an important part of the campaign is O'Rourke's recognition that Latinos live in every nook and cranny of the state, which is why his state travel matters. Speaking in Madisonville, Texas, the mushroom capital of the state, she said a Latino attendee was struggling to ask a question in English and"lit up" when O'Rourke switched over to Spanish.
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