Houston Cronicle wants Beto to drop his run for President and run for the Senate against Cornyn--It is too late for that, he has been exposed as a goofball

Washington Examiner:
A Texas paper that endorsed Beto O’Rourke last year in his failed bid to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz has some advice for the 2020 Democratic primary candidate: Pack it up. Make yourself useful elsewhere.

“Beto, if you’re listening: Come home. Drop out of the race for president and come back to Texas to run for senator. The chances of winning the race you’re in now are vanishingly small. And Texas needs you,” says the Houston Chronicle’s editorial board.

They added, “Two years ago, you ran an inspiring race against Sen. Ted Cruz. Sure, you lost. No shame in that. Texas hasn’t elected a Democrat to a statewide office since 1994. You chipped away at a wall that wasn’t quite ready to come down. You showed it’s possible.”

Part of the Houston Chronicle's reason for calling on O’Rourke to bow out of the 2020 Democratic primary stems from its favorable opinion of his response to last week’s deadly shooting in El Paso, Texas.

The former congressman was asked by a reporter whether he believes President Trump can do something to de-escalate anti-illegal immigrant fervor. “Um, what do you think?” O’Rourke answered. “You know the shit he’s been saying. He’s been calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. I don’t know. … Like, members of the press — what the f--k? It’s these questions that you know the answers to.”

The Houston Chronicle was moved by this response.
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What O'Rourke said about Trump's statements about immigrants is a blatant lie that Democrats have been pushing and that the Chronicle is fine with.  The people that Trump was describing as rapists and criminals were members of MS-13 and that description of the gang is accurate.  But the Chronicle and Democrats would rather lie about it.

O'Rourke's emotional response to the killing is no excuse for lying about what the President has said about illegal immigration.  But it fits a pattern for the media and Democrats to mislead voters on what was actually said by the President.

O'Rourke has been exposed by his run for President and he is unlikely to ever recover.

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