Wednesday’s confrontation was yet another public display of the hostility that has been...
The rawness of a new era of Texas politics was on full display on Wednesday in Uvalde as Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke were eye-to-eye in a high school auditorium in the aftermath of one of the state’s worst gun violence tragedies.to recall the children gunned down in their elementary school on Tuesday — saying “we urge all Texans to come together” — O’Rourkepointing his finger and shouting at Abbott and Lt. Gov.
Just in the last two years, Republicans in the Legislature have changed rules in the Texas Senate to squelch out already outnumbered Democratic resistance and wielded redistricting as a partisan tool to end careers of Democratic lawmakers. With the majority of elections in Texas still decided in primaries, Jones said Republicans have no reason to ease up.. O’Rourke has for months been far more intense in his campaign against Abbott than in his 2018 campaign against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. In that race against Cruz, Democrats worried O’Rourke wasn’t tough enough on Cruz.
O’Rourke amped that up on Wednesday by challenging Abbott during the middle of a press conference in Uvalde where Abbott was trying to preach a message of unity.Republicans immediately blasted O’Rourke for disrupting the event at such a somber moment.
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