Beto orourke i love you fucking gays
If you know one thing about Beto O’Rourke, it’s that he’s cool. The Democratic Texas congressman couldn’t beat Ted Cruz in this month’s Senate race, but he came closer than many thought, and in the process became the most hyped political figure since Barack Obama. The media descended upon him in the weeks leading up to the midterms as if at any moment he could be raptured from Earth—it got so bad that in October, Politico’s Jack Shafer called for the press to stop profiling him. Beto was steady. He was hip. Maybe you heard that he refused to take PAC money and raised $38 million in three months. Maybe you saw him skating in that Whataburger parking lot, and later read that he was the bassist in a post-hardcore band with drummer Cedric Bixler-Zavala, the future frontman for At the Drive-In and the Mars Volta. Maybe you heard him say “fuck” during his concession speech. Maybe you found the sex tweet—or perhaps the sex tweet found you.
In any case, “Betomania” is far from over: Last week, the new star appeared to backtrack on his previous pledge not to run for president in 2020. Despite losing to Cruz, he may own
The South’s Progressive Uprising Is Only Just Beginning
Shortly before 2 a.m. ET Wednesday morning, when Stacey Abrams took to the podium in a still-packed Atlanta ballroom, she trailed voter-suppressing Republican Brian Kemp with 99 percent of the returns counted. But Abrams wasn’t about to concede. “Friends, we are still on the verge of victory,” she proclaimed. With thousands of absentee and provisional ballots still untallied, Abrams knew she still had a chance to whittle Kemp’s margin below 50 percent and initiate a runoff election in December. “We’re gonna contain a chance to undertake a do-over,” she told her cheering supporters.
But Abrams didn’t stop there, delivering what was surely the best not-quite-victory speech in recent memory. While Andrew Gillum, whose constant lead in the polls all fall had mysteriously disappeared in Florida, was tearful in defeat, and Beto O’Rourke went a bit off script (“I fucking love you guys!) in Texas after his loss, Abrams had appear to do what she’s always done — encourage the South’s long-downtrodden Democrats to believe, to optimism and to win. “Tonight,”
Beto O’Rourke ended his Texas campaign for Senate as a true maverick on Tuesday night, dropping an uncensored f-bomb live on national television in an address to his supporters.
“I’m so fucking proud of you guys,” O’Rourke, addressing those who worked on his campaign, said to thunderous applause. “Everybody who worked on this campaign, every volunteer and dignitary, everyone who knocked on doors, everyone who made phone calls, everyone who allowed themselves to dream and believe, to be inspired by one another and to turn it into action and into votes.”
The popular Democrat, hailed as a new encounter of the progressive movement in America, wasn’t fit to surmount Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday, but he delivered an impassioned concession speech that focused heavily on the groundbreaking network of help that helped fuel his bid for Congress.
Cruz had attempted to shame O’Rourke’s language throughout the campaign, even releasing a 30-second mashup of the Democrat swearing at events while warning Texans that the lawmaker’s rallies were not a “great place to bring the kids.”
The language was met with some awkwardness during the night’s live broadcasts. MSNBC anchor Bri
Democratic Texas Senate challenger Beto O'Rourke conceded on election late hours to Republican Senator Ted Cruz in a speech in his native El Paso that drew cheers from his supporters. The crowd was especially noisy when he said, "I'm so f**king proud of you," and, "We will see you out there down the road."
O'Rourke had fought a surprisingly competitive race as he sought to change into the first Democrat to win a statewide election in the ruby-red express of Texas in almost a quarter of a century. Although O'Rourke clueless the race, his reputation remained sky-high, and a achievable run for president—despite his strong denials—was already a topic of conversation Tuesday.
El Paso has produced some really fantastic teams over the years. And I am very blessed I got to be part of one that came out of this community. For the last 22 months, it has been traveling to every single county in Texas, being there to listen to and show up for every unpartnered one of us. I'm as inspired, I'm as hopeful as I've ever been in my life, and tonight's loss does nothing to diminish the way I undergo about Texas or this country.
Getting to be with and to see all of you tonight reminds me why we set out to do this in