Is Beto Using Campaign Funds For Illegal "Caravan" Or Migrants Already In US? Cruz Doubles Down On #ProjectVeritas Video's Accusations [#TXPOLITICS 24/7]

As the US Senate race narrows to a 49%/49% horse race, incumbent Ted Cruz has thrown down the gauntlet, asking challenger Beto O'Rourke to answer a couple of basic questions:

"Two basic Qs every reporter should ask Beto today:  (1) should the “caravan” be allowed to cross illegally into Texas?  (Beto refuses to answer.) And (2) did your campaign dollars illegally fund their doing so?"

The tweet is in response to a video made by Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe, whose latest undercover video appears to show O'Rourke staffers planning to use pre-paid campaign cards - paid for by donors - to buy materials for, and even transport, the Honduran migrants in the "caravan" making its way to storm the US border.

Beto's campaign fired back at the charges, saying, in an official statement, that staffers "took it upon themselves" to use campaign funds to donate supplies to an El Paso nonprofit and that the contributions - less than $300 total - will be "appropriately reported" to the Federal Election Commission.

Quotes from the video itself seem to indicate a cover-up of the funds and their intended use, such as - "Under the table just sort of do it," "Well, she doesn't know we used the prepaid card, but she doesn't need to know," and "we're going to give rides to some of the immigrants too."

The Dallas Morning News, whose editorial board endorsed O'Rourke, seemed to also demand some answers from him:

"Beto O’Rourke wants a promotion. He wants to go from the House to the Senate and go from representing a constituency of 743,000 in the 16th congressional district to the entire state of Texas and its 30 million residents.

“With days to go before the election and President Donald Trump along with Ted Cruz ramping up the immigration rhetoric, O’Rourke has managed to stake out an opposition stance without offering much detail of his own. It’s time he stepped up and delivered.”

Meanwhile, the 24-minute video (watch below) in which staffers joke with an undercover O'Keefe operative posing as a journalist that they are "hiding" the spending as other expenses, continues to be used as campaign fodder in this very, very tight race.