After a brief hiatus to treat a bacterial infection, the Democratic nominee for governor, Beto O’Rourke, resumed the final leg of his 49-day summer campaign tour in Laredo Friday night. O’Rourke has an edge Abbott lacks: passion. While Abbott stayed put in the governor’s mansion—still shirking his responsibility to do anything about gun violence—O’Rourke showed up to talk to residents in overlooked Texas towns on the border.
Rochelle Garza, the Democratic candidate for attorney general, warmed up the O’Rourke supporters.
“[Current Republican Attorney General] Ken Paxton has never seen a crime he doesn’t want to commit,” she said, “because he doesn’t believe the law applies to him.”
