Beto O'Rourke in El Paso: 'We live in a country that is not safe, that refuses to pass laws to end gun violence...a president who demonizes communities like this one, who vilifies immigrants, who says that those from Mexico are rapists and criminals'
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke called President Donald Trump a white supremacist on Wednesday as both men were in El Paso to honor the 22 victims killed in a weekend mass shooting in the Texas border city.
"He's been clear who he wants to keep out with walls and cages as militarization and torture and cruelty. Again, we in El Paso have borne the brunt of all of that but we in El Paso are standing up to all of that and I have never been more proud of this community than I have in this moment,” O’Rourke continued.
Mocking O'Rourke's nickname became a campaign strategy last year during his Senate contest against Ted Cruz, as well. Cruz released a radio ad in March 2018 with the lines,"I remember reading stories liberal Robert wanted to fit in, so he changed his name to Beto and hid it with a grin." 22 people in my hometown are dead after an act of terror inspired by your racism. El Paso will not be quiet and neither will I. https://t.co/dakFPKj0vJ"I'm the least racist person there is anywhere in the world," Trump said late last month, in reference to his controversial comments about Elijah Cummings, his district in Baltimore and New York Rev. Al Sharpton.
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