What the RNC's Beto O'Rourke St. Patrick's Day tweet says about our politics | Analysis by CillizzaCNN
On this St. Paddy's Day, a special message from noted Irishman Robert Francis O'Rourke. pic.twitter.com/JRjMEXhZRY
— GOP March 17, 2019 The"joke" is two-fold:1) Beto O'Rourke was arrested for drunk driving in 1998. The photo used in the tweet above is O'Rourke's mugshot from that arrest.2) While O'Rourke goes by"Beto" and many people think he is Hispanic, his full name is Robert Francis O'Rourke and he is Irish .Get it? See, so the RNC takes a shot at Beto's past arrest AND the fact that he isn't actually Hispanic.
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