Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke is going on a 49-day tour of Texas, starting July 19 in a major ramp-up of his campaign against Gov. Greg Abbott. This comes as polls show O’Rourke appears to be closing in on Abbott’s lead.
The Democratic challenger will hold 70 public events in more than 65 counties as part of the tour, according to his campaign. The trip will start July 19 in O’Rourke’s hometown of El Paso and reach every region of the state, including a spate of little-visited small towns.
O’Rourke is expected to hit all the major cities of the state but also some of the tiniest towns, like Marathon in far West Texas and Spearman in the Panhandle. There will also be more than a dozen stops in South Texas, a region where Abbott and other Republicans are working to make new inroads. Last month, his campaign announced plans to spend an initial sum of nearly $20 million on advertising, flexing his large financial advantage over O’Rourke.
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