“I’m not interested in any national politician — anyone outside of Texas — coming into this state to help decide the outcome of this,” O’Rourke emphasizes. “I think we all want to make sure that we’re working with, listening to, and voting with one another here in Texas.”
“No one in Washington, D.C., right now can help us with the challenges that we have,” he also said. “This one is on all of us.”
O’Rourke also discussed recent decisions from the Supreme Court about the Texas abortion law. He made the point that Texas voters aren’t tied to Washington.
Stacey Abrams has schedule conflict
O’Rourke made his comments two weeks after Democrat Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams did not attend speeches Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris made in her home state. Abrams missed the “voting rights” events due to a “schedule conflict.”
Republicans noted that Abrams being unavailable for a meeting with President Biden and Harris looked bad. But her campaign claimed it was only “false rumors” that she was avoiding being seen with Biden. And it had nothing to do with his lagging numbers.
