Analysis: Beto O’Rourke is thinking seriously about running for governor of Texas. And every Democrat in Texas is waiting for him to make up his mind.
One humid afternoon in late July, after finishing the second day of a three-day, 27-mile march for voting rights in Texas, Beto O’Rourke drove his gray Toyota Tundra to a suburb north of Austin, put on a name tag with “Beto” printed on it and began knocking on doors, trying to register new voters, one single-level ranch house at a time.
During the course of about an hour walking in a heavily Democratic precinct in Round Rock, O’Rourke registered one new voter. “Can we clone him?” asked Dora Oaxaca, chair of the Democratic Party in El Paso County, of O’Rourke. She called him “the wind beneath the Democratic Party.” Julie Oliver, the former congressional candidate who twice ran unsuccessfully to flip a Republican-held House seat around Austin, said O’Rourke “might be the only person who could unseat [Greg] Abbott, honestly.
“The pretty fair assumption that people are making” is that he will run, said Gilberto Hinojosa, chair of the Texas Democratic Party. Hinojosa said he has spoken with O’Rourke twice about the election, both times encouraging him to run.There are few politicians The Poor People's Campaign embarked on a 27-mile, 4-day walk ending at the Texas State Capital in a Selma-to-Montgomery-style march to demand federal action on voting rights. | Mario Cantu/Cal Sport Media via AP
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