In a race viewed as uphill by Texas political strategists, Beto O’Rourke’s most powerful opponent may not be Governor Abbott, but his own previous statements – taken in and out of context.
As of now, the posts coming from Latino conservative activists and Trump supporters have been going after O’Rourke on guns, a result of his statement at a debate during his short-lived presidential run that “we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.”
And those comments are being amplified on social media.
According to CrowdTangle, a video of O’Rourke being confronted by a Trump-supporting Latino man in a cowboy hat named Robert Longoria yelling, “Don’t come back, we don’t want you here!” over O’Rourke’s support for gun control has garnered 1.2 million views.
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Source: Democrats Warn Texas is Next Target for Disinformation Aimed at Latinos | Newsweek