{"id":119859,"date":"2021-11-22T15:06:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T20:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=119859"},"modified":"2021-11-23T01:48:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T06:48:31","slug":"will-beto-orourke-become-the-next-texas-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=119859","title":{"rendered":"Will Beto O\u2019Rourke Become the Next Texas Governor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-92286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BetoORourke-gun-buy-back-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Robert Francis &#8220;Beto&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The perennial political candidate, &#8220;Beto&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke, has thrown his hat in the ring for the Texas Governorship. The former congressman is Texas\u2019 best-known Democrat, but has a history of political failures including his bids for U.S. Senate and President. The political landscape has changed considerably since he last ran, as well.<\/p>\n<p>He remains steadfast in his 2019 Presidential campaign promise of confiscating commonly owned semiautomatic rifles.<\/p>\n<p>David sends.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;I still hold this view&#8217;: Beto O&#8217;Rourke stands firm on 2019 presidential debate &#8216;We&#8217;re gonna take your AR-15, your AK-47&#8217; remarks<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Taylor Ardrey<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former presidential candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke said that he stands behind his &#8220;we&#8217;re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47&#8221; remark that he made in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Rouke made the comment during a presidential debate in response to a question about advocating a mandatory assault-weapon buyback program, as Insider previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it&#8217;s a weapon that was designed to kill people on a battlefield &#8230; Hell yes, we&#8217;re gonna take your AR-15, your AK-47,&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke said during the presidential debate.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; on Sunday, O&#8217;Rouke, who is running for Texas governor, doubled down on his stance: &#8220;I still hold this view.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a school of thought that postulates O&#8217;Rourke runs for political office not to win the seat, but as a means of employment living off of campaign contributions. There may be something to this, as his other qualifications include skate boarding and punk rock singer.  <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Texas Governor Greg Abbott&#8217;s disapproval rating stands a 48%. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/still-hold-view-beto-orourke-174512131.html\">Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, David.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Francis &#8220;Beto&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke The perennial political candidate, &#8220;Beto&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke, has thrown his hat in the &hellip; <a title=\"Will Beto O\u2019Rourke Become the Next Texas Governor?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=119859\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will Beto O\u2019Rourke Become the Next Texas Governor?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,406,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-guest-link","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119880,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119859\/revisions\/119880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}