US Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke has completed a tour of all 254 Texas counties his campaign began last March, ending in Gainesville, TX. Observers are noting that his commitment to campaign statewide is a deviation from past Democrats' campaigns, which have focused on large population centers, whose voters tend to lean heavily Democratic.
The Texas Tribune writes:
"The county-by-county tour started in March 2017, when O’Rourke kicked off his campaign with a rooftop rally in El Paso. “Beto said, ‘We are going to all of the counties,’ and some of us said, ‘Are we really?’” said Chris Evans, the campaign’s spokesman. “But we have been.”
Fueled by five cups of coffee a day, O’Rourke does about 80 percent of the driving himself, in a maroon Dodge Grand Caravan, Evans said. The candidate and his staffers subsist on a steady diet of trail mix, beef jerky and Hostess Cupcakes."
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