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Beto O'Rourke bounces back from illness, returns to 'Drive for Texas' campaign
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Link to tweet
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/09/02/beto-orourke-returns-to-texas-governor-campaign-trail-after-illness/65469330007/
Beto O’Rourke returned to the campaign trail Friday after a bout with illness that forced the Democrat gubernatorial candidate to suspend a week’s worth of events.
A crowd of more than 500 people in Laredo, Texas, erupted in cheers when O’Rourke came into a firefighters union hall decorated with the Texas flag and red, white and blue balloons.
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, who has represented South Texas for 16 years, rallied Democrat supporters and introduced the born-and-raised El Pasoan after Democratic candidates for Texas land commissioner, attorney general and others spoke.
A roomful of cheers and applause: to gas prices going down, to job creation Cuellar attributed to President Joe Biden. A roomful of boos: for a litany of unfavorable Republican comparisons he alleged on infrastructure, health care, schools and civil rights.
A crowd of more than 500 people in Laredo, Texas, erupted in cheers when O’Rourke came into a firefighters union hall decorated with the Texas flag and red, white and blue balloons.
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, who has represented South Texas for 16 years, rallied Democrat supporters and introduced the born-and-raised El Pasoan after Democratic candidates for Texas land commissioner, attorney general and others spoke.
A roomful of cheers and applause: to gas prices going down, to job creation Cuellar attributed to President Joe Biden. A roomful of boos: for a litany of unfavorable Republican comparisons he alleged on infrastructure, health care, schools and civil rights.