'I just don't see a path for Beto. At some point the donor base says we reached in our pockets deeply three times for you and it's time to move on.'
The former El Paso congressman was then hampered in the governor's race, not only by a national political climate that favored
Ultimately, Castro said, O'Rourke was running in the most difficult political"weather" conditions for a candidate — a midterm election where your party's president is in office. O'Rourke launched Powered by People after he dropped out of the presidential race to focus on the 2022 presidential election, and the group concentrated on registering and turning out Texas voters. O'Rourke later launched a voter registration tool called Drive-to-You, which helped Texans register by sending volunteers to their house to help them.Newsweek
The special election win of Republican Mayra Flores in the 34th Congressional District also hurt O'Rourke's campaign, because Republicans began to spend more money in south Texas, the source said. Flores lost to incumbent Democrat Vicente Gonzalez 52.7% to 44.3% on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.
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