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Beto O'Rourke calls for Donald Trump's resignation
by Patrick Svitek, Texas TribuneDemocratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke said President Donald Trump should resign during an appearance Saturday at The Texas Tribune Festival.
"The best possible path ... is for this president to resign, allow this country to heal and ensure that we come back together with the greatest, most ambitious agenda we've ever faced, none of it possible while he remains in office," the former El Paso congressman said during a conversation with MSNBC's Garrett Haake at The Paramount Theatre in Austin.
While the Republican president is unlikely to heed O'Rourke's counsel, the comment underscored O'Rourke's response this week to the launch of an impeachment inquiry in the U.S. House. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced the inquiry Tuesday after new revelations about Trump's dealings with Ukraine.
O'Rourke has been agitating for impeachment since his 2018 U.S. Senate campaign, and he told Haake that he is "very grateful" Pelosi announced the inquiry and that he is "cautiously optimistic about the path we're on now."
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2019/09/28/beto-orourke-calls-donald-trumps-resignation/