Beto smells blood in the water. With Texas frozen over, former Democratic Rep. O’Rourke sought to pin the state’s power outages on a Republican culture war.
“While they focused on bathroom bills, ‘show me your papers’ legislation and fighting with sports teams over the Star Spangled Banner, 30 million Texans were left vulnerable to uncontrolled COVID spread, a bungled vaccine rollout and now this ‘rolling’ power blackout,” O’Rourke tweeted Tuesday night.
While they focused on bathroom bills, “show me your papers” legislation and fighting with sports teams over the Star Spangled Banner, 30 million Texans were left vulnerable to uncontrolled Covid spread, a bungled vaccine rollout and now this “rolling” power blackout. 2/4
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) February 16, 2021
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This point is worth rebutting because it could be a potent line of attack in a state where Democrats are on the brink of seriously disrupting GOP dominance. It’s also predicated on a dangerous misconception about our