Beto's Getting Worse as We Get Closer to the Election

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Abbott has tens of millions of dollars in his war chest. O'Rourke is spending a lot of money persuading Texans, but when push comes to shove and you ask people who are very likely to vote, Abbott has an advantage. Effectively their ground game is really solid. They literally have an Abbott University where Governor Abbott set up these organizations to train people to blockwalk. So that gives them this tremendous turnout potential.

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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