Beto O'Rourke

beto than abbott?

Beto O'Rourke is officially running for governor of Texas

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texas poll watch

McConaughey leads Abbott in Texas poll as O'Rourke inches closer

Beto O'Rourke and CNN's Anderson Cooper.

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texas in crisis

Beto O'Rourke is organizing wellness checks for seniors during Texas' blackouts. Ted Cruz is in Cancun.

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election 2020

Beto O'Rourke explains why he thinks Democrats failed to flip Texas

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shaving grace

Beto O'Rourke has a post-presidential run beard, and Ted Cruz loves it

Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Yang, and Beto O'Rourke.

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jealousy?

Beto O'Rourke reportedly considered Pete Buttigieg a 'human weather vane'

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Feature

Why Beto O'Rourke's gay marriage idea collapses under scrutiny

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Yikes

Beto O'Rourke had a very bad Reddit Ask Me Anything

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the 2020 diet

Cory Booker meditates. Kamala Harris does SoulCycle. Beto O'Rourke eats dirt.

Stephen Colbert on Trump and gun violence

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Late Night Tackles Guns

Stephen Colbert appreciates Beto O'Rourke's 'shouts and swears' on Trump and gun violence

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this is brutal

'Jesus Christ, of course he's racist,' Beto O'Rourke vehemently says of Trump, tying him to weekend shootings

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subdued

CNN presents Beto O'Rourke with brutal headlines about his 'lackluster' debate performance

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it's a bro-off

Joe Biden challenged Trump to a push-up contest. Beto O'Rourke accepted.

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Uh oh

Beto O'Rourke is in big trouble

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2020 Democratic debates

It took Beto O'Rourke 9 seconds to start speaking Spanish at the Democratic debate

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multitasking at its finest

Beto O'Rourke returns to his roots, livestreams haircut

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won't let it go

Trump is still obsessed with the size of Beto O'Rourke's El Paso rally

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step one

Beto O'Rourke's first official policy plan is a doozy

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time to regroup

Beto O'Rourke may have peaked too early

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the hat wars

Elizabeth Warren has a lot of policy ideas. Beto O'Rourke has a lot of baseball caps.

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Analysis

Don't idolize your 2020 pick

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W. James Antle III

Beto O'Rourke is 2020's John Edwards

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what.

Beto O'Rourke has played some downright disgusting pranks on his wife Amy

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beto vs. everybody

Bernie Sanders officially challenges Beto O'Rourke to the battle of the small-money donors

Beto O'Rourke after a St. Patrick's Day run

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2020 Tweets

GOP marks St. Patrick's Day by doctoring 'noted Irishman' Beto O'Rourke's old DUI mug shot

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beto o'what now?

Beto O'Rourke wrote some wild stuff under the pseudonym 'Psychedelic Warlord' in his 'hacktivist' days

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Watch this

Beto O'Rourke is hit with a 'devastating' new 2020 attack ad. Well, sort of.

Seth Meyers, Trevor Noah, and Jimmy Fallon laugh at Beto O'Rourke's rollout

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Late Night Tackles 2020

Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers are amused at Trump's hilariously un-self-aware 1st attack on Beto O'Rourke

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he's drumming

Beto O'Rourke heads to a Metallica concert after making 2020 decision

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Size matters?

Trump seemed very interested in Beto O'Rourke's evidently larger crowd during his El Paso rally

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cold sweat

Bernie Sanders' 2020 team is reportedly 'eyeing Beto O’Rourke nervously'

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well he probably is

Beto O'Rourke's friends never thought this 'weirdo musician might run for president'

Beto O'Rourke chats with Oprah Winfrey about 2020

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One-name celebrities

Is Beto running for president? Oprah thinks so. Bradley Cooper hopes so.

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or don't.

Watch Beto O'Rourke rock out in a sheep costume

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Analysis

How the new 2020 primary schedule gives Beto and Kamala a critical boost