The biggest issue that he's focused on has been abortion. The Dobbs decision created a tremendous opportunity for Democrats to say that the state and the country are out of step with where most people are. His big approach in 2018 was about health care politics.
Republicans have firmly held the Texas governorship since 1995. Beto O’Rourke’s campaign is both a long shot and Democrats’ best challenge in decades.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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