GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas — With the uproar over last year’s winter storm in a holding pattern, Democratic nominee for governor Beto O’Rourke is trying to sell Texas voters on bread-and-butter issues that he hopes will compel them to fire incumbent Greg Abbott.
In varied events across the state, O’Rourke is pounding three topics — jobs, education and health care — as critical reasons to elect him governor.
It’s a transition of sorts. O’Rourke is coming off of a 20-city tour designed to highlight the state officials’ failure in securing the Texas power grid, which resulted in sweeping power outages and more than 240 deaths. While he still discusses the grid issue, O’Rourke hopes to better connect with Texas voters by discussing basic — but sometimes elusive — government services.
