Watch: Gubernatorial candidate, Beto O’Rourke, kicks off campaign tour across Texas in El Paso

EL PASO, Texas — Applicant for governor of Texas, Beto O’Rourke is kicking off his 49-day statewide tour these days.

O’Rourke’s to start with stop: El Paso, his hometown.

Through the rally, O’Rourke touched on a lot of topics like healthcare, immigration, gun violence and abortion rights.

About 455 people ended up current on the to start with evening of his marketing campaign tour. The candidate talked to his supporters about the upcoming election. 

“We all did not only all the things we could to overcome this, we did all the things we could to triumph over this and then we overcame and gained this election,” O’Rourke stated. 

The applicant talked about immigration and how he plans to handle the difficulty in business office. 

“Immigrants are our greatest asset, the motive why El Paso is such an awesome local community and Texas a excellent state. If you want to arrive below to do the job, to join your family members, to search for asylum, to petition for refuge, there is got to be a lawful, orderly, harmless and swift way to do that.”

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate also touched on gun violence. 

“After that massacre in our local community, do you feel he did nearly anything other than giving his feelings and prayers and featuring a distinctive committee? You know what he did? He signed a invoice into law that would permit you to get a loaded gun in community with no a track record check out, vetting.”

O’Rourke urged supporters in El Paso to elect him. 

“The only factor that will alter the study course that we are on is to transform the people today in electric power,” he claimed.

If elected in November, O’Rourke claimed his initial order of enterprise will be increasing the Texas electric power grid. 

He is set to travel much more than 5,600 miles. The candidate will be keeping 70 situations across 65 counties in the state, like modest towns and huge towns.

The “49-day Generate for Texas” will aim on, according to the O’Rourke campaign, “uniting Texans to beating Abbott’s extremism.”

In accordance to his office environment, when O’Rourke was working for Texas senator, he visited all 254 counties in the condition.

Very last Friday, O’Rourke noted raising almost $32 million in the course of the to start with half of 2022, outraising Gov. Greg Abbott.