Beto O'Rourke says Republican Gov. Greg Abbott unable to lead Texas

CLEBURNE — Beto O’Rourke on Wednesday said incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is incapable of solving Texas’ lingering problems, including curbing gun violence, fixing the power grid and providing affordable health insurance for all Texans.

“We are running against someone who represents everything that is at odds with what our values are, not as Democrats, but as Texans,” O’Rourke said in Cleburne.

O’Rourke is in the middle of a 49-day tour through Texas to highlight the his push for voters to move past Abbott. On Wednesday he had stops on Cleburne and Mineral Wells, both Republican Party strongholds. If he wants to win in November, the former El Paso congressman and Democratic nominee for governor will have to convince some small town voters to dump Abbott.

Speaking at a non-air conditioned gymnasium in front of hundreds of supporters, O’Rourke said Abbott’s tenure has been defined by one failure after the another, calling his two-terms marked by “chaos, cruelty, incompetence and corruption.”

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