Our opinion is that it was awfully crass of Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke to crash a news conference and try to turn it into a campaign stop with an impromptu debate with Gov. Greg Abbott. Abbott and the rest were there to update the community on everything they knew about the Robb Elementary School shooting, and O’Rourke was there to grandstand on the backs of dead children.
HuffPost’s Daniel Marans was there and talked to Cody Ytuarte, who had a cousin who was shot but survived. Ytuarte explained why he interrupted O’Rourke’s interruption of the news conference.
Ytuarte explains why he interrupted Beto: “There’s a time and a place to address certain things like that. To do it in the moment in which the tragedy is being addressed so recently … is pure propaganda.” pic.twitter.com/gx5AjZz9ez
— Daniel Marans (@danielmarans) May 25, 2022
Ytuarte, 38, grew up a Democrat but explains that he left the party between 2008 and 2012 because he thinks Democrats began exaggerating racism, including in policing (though he concedes differential treatment is an issue). pic.twitter.com/0cMYGqbTo5
— Daniel Marans (@danielmarans) May 25, 2022
Ytuarte is wary of additional gun regulations. pic.twitter.com/jtp6lwMF0b
— Daniel Marans (@danielmarans) May 25, 2022
Ytuarte also said he enjoyed Donald Trump’s mean tweets:
Finally, I asked Ytuarte why he likes Trump. “I really enjoyed his mean tweets.” He thinks media took comments out of context to make Trump seem racist. pic.twitter.com/DCQszjeSJz
— Daniel Marans (@danielmarans) May 25, 2022
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Ytuarte’s grandparents immigrated from Mexico. He doesn’t speak much Spanish. And like many rural South Texans, he is very hawkish on undocumented immigration.
— Daniel Marans (@danielmarans) May 25, 2022
And he’s the kind of person whom O’Rourke is going to have to win over to even have a prayer of beating Abbott, and O’Rourke didn’t do himself any favors today in that regard.
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Beto O’Rourke totally earns the ‘sick son of a b*tch’ label when he interrupts Greg Abbott’s Uvalde presser to grandstand and grave-dance https://t.co/DYJDPd71ow
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 25, 2022
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