“I was running to serve my state in the United States Senate, and I’d made that commitment that I was going to serve every one of the six years in that position of public trust,” said the former Texas congressman
a house party Saturday night with John Murphy, who is seeking a second term as the Dubuque County recorder.
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“But I have an opportunity now to do something that I think the country badly needs,” O’Rourke said. “Or maybe I should put it this way, I get a chance to be part of something that the country badly needs and that is coming together at this very divided moment.” Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Amy Klobuchar and former Maryland congressman John Delaney were also in Waterloo campaigning for Giddens.
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