Texas Democrats had hoped that their improved showing in 2018 was a sign that the state’s long-predicted purpling was imminent. Instead, they face daunting odds in the 2022 election.
in his otherwise lacklustre Presidential campaign. It was also a perfect sound bite for Abbott, who has featured it in a number of ads. At the Texas State Museum of Asian Cultures & Education Center, in Corpus Christi, O’Rourke vowed to “defend the Second Amendment proudly.” “We have guns for any number of reasons, none of which are the business of the government,” he said. O’Rourke, who has said that he owns firearms, attempted to position himself as a champion of the responsible gun owner.
After O’Rourke’s thoughtful, measured speeches, the tone of the question-and-answer sessions at times edged closer to a raw desperation: What do I say to my friend who thinks you’re going to confiscate his AR? What do I say to my friend who thinks you murder babies? What do I say to my friend who thinks you’re a socialist who’s going to turn Texas into Venezuela?
“I’m hopeful,” a man in a Teamster polo shirt and a Yeti baseball cap told me, but his face didn’t match his words. I put the question of Texas Democrats and their perpetually forestalled hopes to O’Rourke in McAllen. It had taken ninety minutes for him to work through the selfie line, and the park employees had politely but firmly shooed us away and locked the gate behind us. We crossed the street and leaned against the back of my pickup truck.
I thought about the selfie lines as not an ancillary part of the campaign events but their central point. They were content generators, sure, but, more important, they seemed like an exercise in sustaining mutual belief. In Laredo, I’d overheard a young woman say that she’d driven an hour and a half from her home in Zapata, the seat of a county that swung thirty-eight points in favor of Trump between 2016 and 2020.
“Stuff’s impossible until it happens, right?—” O’Rourke started to tell me, when a white pickup truck pulled over next to us and two men in jeans and work boots jumped out. They hollered “Beto!” with such familiarity that, for a second, I assumed they were old friends. “We saw you here and we were, like, ‘I gotta take a picture with this guy,’ ” one said. O’Rourke smiled as the flash went off. Then he reminded them to post the picture, and to vote.
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