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TexasTowelie

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Sat May 4, 2019, 02:28 AM May 2019

Beto O'Rourke in Fort Worth: 'We are going to do everything we can' to beat Trump

FORT WORTH -- Presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke has his eye on the prize.

The 2020 election is nearly a year away, but he said the goal is clear.

“We are going to do everything we can to defeat Donald Trump,” O’Rourke — one of nearly two dozen Democrats seeking the presidential nomination — told a crowd of more than 1,000 gathered for a town hall Friday night at Flying Saucer Draught Emporium.

O’Rourke received good news recently, through a poll that shows he can beat President Trump. But another poll shows he’s trailing other Democrats in the race.

He told the Star-Telegram that he plans to stand out by showing up, as he did in Texas during his unsuccessful U.S. Senate bid last year, for “everybody ... (and) for the courage of our convictions.”

Read more: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article229805109.html

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