On Tuesday, Beto O’Rourke swept the vote as the Democratic gubernatorial primary winner, while other statewide Democratic hopefuls will be going into runoffs.
With about 90 percent of the vote, O’Rourke beat out four other candidates in the race. He will be facing off against Governor Gregg Abott, who won the Republican nomination with almost 70 percent of the vote.
“We gotta to get past the incompetence, the corruption, and the cruelty of Greg Abott,” O’Rourke told suppporters at his watch party in Dallas. “I will be a governor for each and every single one of you. We will do this together to do the big things we are truly capable of once we get past the smallness and the cruelty and the decisiveness of this moment.”
