Beto O'Rourke: “We're going to have the backs of these Texas state…”

“We're going to continue to hold these town hall meetings everywhere, I mean across Texas. I mentioned I was in Milwaukee today, Indianapolis tomorrow, Omaha, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, back to Texas and Tarrant county and Abilene. We're going to have the backs of these Texas state legislators, raise the resources necessarily for when they break quorum, to make sure that they can stay away and prevail and deny Trump these five congressional seats. We're going to put the pressure on those Democratic elected leaders and Democratic Party officials to make sure they bring the fight to Donald Trump and stop reacting and responding, but seize the initiative at every single turn.” (11:29–11:40)

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