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Beto O'Rourke flip-flops again on confiscating AR-15s as polls show him trailing Texas Gov. Abbott​

The failed senatorial and presidential contender said earlier this week that he has "no interest in taking" assault weapons from gun owners.

"I’m not interested in taking anything from anyone," O’Rourke said to reporters in Tyler, Texas. "What I want to make sure that we do is defend the Second Amendment. I want to make sure that we protect our fellow Texans far better than we’re doing right now."

The flip appears to be driven by the polling numbers, and comes just a few months after O’Rourke full-throatedly backed a mandatory buyback for AR-15s and other so-called assault weapons.





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Beto Trailing Badly In Polls, Now Has ‘No Interest in Taking’ Your AR-15​

Now he LOVES #2A: “I’m not interested in taking anything from anyone. What I want to make sure that we do is defend the Second Amendment.”



Now Robert Francis wants to become the next governor of Texas. I guess the former congressman has no talents to offer the private sector because he cannot stop running for public office no matter how often he fails.

O’Rourke announced his gubernatorial campaign in early November.

O’Rourke told CNN’s Dana Bash that same month that he still holds the view he held during his short presidential campaign.

Then O’Rourke told The Texas Tribune he would “continue to stake out the aggressive gun control stance.”

 

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Beto O’Rourke Staffer Gets Physical With Blaze Media’s Sara Gonzales, Police Officer ‘Manhandles’ Her At Event​

Blaze Media’s Sara Gonzales said Sunday that a staffer for Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke tried to rip her phone from her hands while she was at a public event for the candidate in Dallas, Texas. Gonzales was then “manhandled” by a female officer with the Dallas Police Department and almost fell down nearby stairs, she said.

Not once was Gonzales directed not to record anything by anyone at the event, the conservative told The Daily Wire, adding that others had their phones out to record, too.

Gonzales provided a photo to The Daily Wire that is posted on O’Rourke’s own social media from the event. In the crowd, some attendees have their phones out, seemingly recording or taking photos of the Democrat, the picture shows.

 

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Robert Francis O'Rourke is being sued for defamation by a major Abbott donor​

O’Rourke is giving a “muh truthiness” kind of response to the allegation of defamation. He’s just telling the truth to voters, you see, and they have a right to know that this wealthy energy guy donated money to Abbott.

“All I have done today, and all I’ve done over the course of the campaign, is to share these facts with the electorate that will decide the outcome of this next election,” O’Rourke said during a news conference in Dallas.
“I want to make sure that there is justice for those who were killed effectively by this governor. I’ll make sure that there’s justice for the ratepayer who is now forced to foot the bill for these illegal windfall profits made by the gas companies and Energy Transfer Partners and others here in the state of Texas.”

Robert Francis says that Warren wants to silence him.

“O’Rourke intentionally, repeatedly, and widely disseminated his deliberate and defamatory falsehoods through publicly released messages on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites and during speaking engagements and interviews,” the lawsuit states. “O’Rourke intended that his malicious and baseless defamatory statements publicly humiliate Warren and discourage others from contributing to Governor Abbott’s campaign.”
The lawsuit says O’Rourke went beyond normal political talking points.

 

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O’Rourke calls Abbott a “thug” and an “authoritarian” who’s “got his own oligarch here in the state of Texas”​

Smith asked, “Greg Abbott is a thug in your mind?”

O’Rourke replied, "He’s a thug, he’s an authoritarian.

“Let me make the case. Not only could this guy, through his own incompetence, not keep the lights on in the energy capital of the planet last February, but when people like Kelcy Warren and other energy company CEOs made than $11 billion in profit over five days — selling gas for 200 times the going rate; not only did he not claw back those illegal profits; not only was there no justice for more than 700 people who were killed, who literally froze to deaths in their homes, outside, in their cars, people who are paying now tens of billions of dollars cumulatively to pay for the property damage that the flooding that ensued caused in their homes, but he’s taking millions of dollars in payoffs from these same people. I mean, he’s got his own oligarch here in the state of Texas.”

Abbott’s campaign said in a statement, “It’s unfortunate Beto O’Rourke continues to run a campaign based on fear mongering and tearing down Texas.”

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Drawing the Russia analogy further, O’Rourke linked new restrictions on voting access in Texas to President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian crackdown in Russia.

“You think this stuff only exists in Russia or in other parts of the world? It’s happening right here,” O’Rourke said. “You think they rig elections in other parts of the planet? It is the toughest state in the nation in which to vote, right here.”

It is difficult to assess which state makes voting most difficult, but Texas requires a photo ID, requires registration 30 days before an election, does not make online registration available and does not allow no-excuse early voting. It does allow two weeks of in-person early voting for all registered voters.

 

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Beta takes ****tard to the next level.

 

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Beto O'Rourke Flip Flops on Critical Race Theory​

Make no mistake about it: Beto O’Rourke supports CRT. He just knows — especially after the Virginia gubernatorial election — that embracing it while running for statewide office in Texas is a fool’s errand. But that doesn’t change the fact that Beto publicly condemned Governor Abbott for signing a law banning the teaching of CRT last year.

“We should know the full story of Texas and the full story of the United States of America,” Beto argued. “Not only our founding ideals and principles, but the way that those ideals and principles were often violated by the people who wrote them, or the fact that so much of the wealth and opportunity in this state was actually created by people who had no choice in the deal whatsoever,” he said last month. “If we don’t, then we’re trafficking in myths and things that just are not true.”

 

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Is he any different than other lying sacks of sh*t candidate for public office?
Other than he publicly admits he is a C-sucker?

 

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Sara Gonzalez Releases Footage Of Beto Staffer, Officer Getting Physical With Her In Front Of Candidate​

The video appears to show an O’Rourke staffer, who Gonzales has identified as Cynthia Cano, grabbing at Gonzales’ phone, and a female police officer, who Gonzales has identified as Jackia Miles, subsequently pushing her without warning.

“Here is the moment [Beto O’Rourke]’s staffer assaulted me right in front of him, tried to take my phone, and a [Dallas Police Department] officer joins in and assaults me while saying, ‘I don’t even gotta touch your phone, I can just touch you.'”

“Does DPD serve the taxpayers or the Democrat machine?” Gonzales questioned.

 

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Beto O'Rourke shifts position on AR-15s once again, quietly edits campaign website​

Most recently, O'Rourke's campaign quietly edited his website's section on "gun safety," changing a call to "reduce" the number of AR-15s into a declaration that no civilian should own the weapon.

The Internet Archives' Wayback Machine shows that as recently as April 1, the "Gun safety" page included a section that said: "And while it might not be the easy or politically safe thing to say, I strongly believe that we need to reduce the number of AR-15’s and AK-47’s on our streets."

Sometime since April 1 (the most recent date archived), the campaign edited the section to say: "And while it might not be the easy or politically safe thing to say, I don't believe any civilian should own an AR-15 or AK-47."

O'Rourke had previously dialed back his aggressiveness on gun control after falling behind incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in the polls.

 

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Beto O'Rourke says AR-15 owners shouldn't 'be able to keep them'​

"I think we are fools to believe anything other than that these weapons of war will continued to be used with greater frequency against our fellow Americans," O’Rourke told a group of veterans during a town hall meeting in Abilene on May 21.

"It’s why I’ve taken the position that I don’t think we should have AR-15s and AK-47s in civilian life," he said. "They belong on a battlefield."

 

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He would eat a turd if it would get him elected.

 

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Beto O’Rourke Goes Full Terry McAuliffe and Demolishes His Own Campaign​

“We don’t need to tell [a teacher] what version of history she is allowed to teach in a classroom. We don’t need to scare the parents of those kids… about something called CRT (critical race theory) that I’ve never heard of before last year,” O’Rourke said.




The campaign added: “Beto does not say ‘parents’ shouldn’t tell schools what to teach.”

Yeah, nice try there, Skippy.

If Beto wasn’t talking about parents, who was he talking about? Who were the ones showing up to school board meetings to protest against progressive ideas on race being presented in classrooms? What groups are pushing back against these teachings? Do the names Moms For Liberty and Moms For America sound like anything but parents?

The Irishman was clearly referring to parents and others concerned about what small children are learning when they go to school – he’s just not as honest about it as McAuliffe was. But again, this is how these progressive statist types think. They believe government-run schools should have full sway over the ideas they use to influence children. No wonder they are so bothered by the notion that parents might want to have a say in what their kids are taught.

 

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It Turns Out Beto O'Rourke Doesn't Like It When People Interrupt HIS Events

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Beto O'Rourke profiles just get sadder and sadder​

Politico Magazine published a Beto O’Rourke profile this morning. The headline sort of hints at the possibility that this particular cottage industry for the media could be coming to an end soon: “Beto O’Rourke Is Making His Last Stand in Texas.” The story itself doesn’t offer much hope that Beto is heading for anything but another disappointment. He’s literally praying for a miracle.

In a cavernous, modern sanctuary at Greater Mt. Zion Church, the Rev. Gaylon Clark introduced Beto O’Rourke to his congregation one recent Sunday as “the next governor of the state of Texas.” Then he raised his hand and, over the strains of a keyboard, prayed for “victory in the name of Jesus.”
In the sanctuary, the churchgoers said, “Amen.” In the lobby, they lined up for pictures with the one-time Democratic sensation now lagging in the polls.
“With God and faith and him being here today,” one of the congregants told me, “you should see a change in his numbers by next week.”…
But even here in Democratic-heavy Austin — even to many of O’Rourke’s supporters — it is looking more and more like it may not add up to enough.

 

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Beto O’Rourke: ‘Texas Could Possibly Be in Play’ for Kamala Harris​

Host Jen Psaki said, “I want to ask you, you’ve seen a lot of presidential candidates run. Vice President Harris and Tim Walz are clearly creating a lot of excitement out there. Do you think this is enough? Is Texas a pipe dream or should people hold their hope out for Texas in 2024 or is it going to take a little longer?”

O’Rourke said, “The thing is you now see Democrats smiling. There is joy in our party. There’s electricity moving through the system. Yes places that I think were written off are now in contention. Three of the most competitive congressional races are in Texas, including Michelle Vallejo in Texas 15. We win those, we might win control of the House of Representatives. The biggest pick up opportunity for Senate Democrats is also in Texas. Colin Allred versus Ted Cruz. I think Harris-Walz raise or increased the chances we’re going to be able to win these races and you know, who knows, but Joe Biden lost Texas by only 5-1/2 points in 2020. It’s been moving faster in the blue column than any other battleground state. Anything I think is possible in this year and with the energy that those two are bringing to this ticket, I think that Texas could possibly be in play.”