In a just launched race for governor viewed as uphill by Texas political strategists, former Democratic Congressman Beto O'Rourke's biggest obstacle in the hunt for Latino votes may not be incumbent Republican Greg Abbott, but his own previous statements.
Social media posts from Latino conservative activists and Trump supporters have been going after O'Rourke on guns, using his statement during his brief presidential run that “Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.”
Those kinds of comments are being amplified on social media. According to social media tracking tool CrowdTangle, a video of O'Rourke being confronted over his support for gun control by a Trump-supporting Latino man in a cowboy hat named Robert Longoria yelling, “Don't come back, we don't want you here! garnered 1.2 million views. Five of the top 10 posts about O'Rourke over the last month on Facebook are about the confrontation.
SPEAKING UP
O'Rourke at a rally outside the state capitol in Austin this June on a controversial voting bill. This page, from top: Texas Republican John Cornyn at a U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on social media's influence on the 2016 presidential election; an abortion rights protest in Austin in September; and Voto Latino CEO María Teresa Kumar.
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