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December 7, 2018
The Real Beto O’Rourke
​By Ron Kolb    AMERICAN THINKER

Although he said both before and after losing the Senate race in Texas to Ted Cruz that he had no plan to run for office in 2020, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke recently left the door wide open. And now he has met with Obama at his home in Washington. In that context, I sent a list of questions to his press spokeswoman, but never received an answer. 

The first question dealt with whether O'Rourke has any Hispanic heritage, or whether, as he is in truth, fourth-generation Irish. As a child living in El Paso, O'Rourke was given the nickname "Beto," which is a common Hispanic moniker for Roberto, in order to delineate between him and his maternal grandfather, Robert Williams. When O'Rourke attended Columbia in New York he used "Rob," but his father, then El Paso County Judge Pat O'Rourke, suggested that he once again use "Beto" to increase his chance of winning political office in the heavily Hispanic city of El Paso, which Robert readily agreed to do.

He graduated from Columbia in 1995, and later that month was arrested for burglary at UTEP (the University of Texas El Paso) along with two others. He has previously explained it as a prank from his college years. I asked his spokeswoman if it was true he had already graduated from Columbia and never attended UTEP; what the purpose of the burglary was; what his relationship with Jose Prieto, Jr. and Jacob Barowsky whom he was arrested with was, and where they were located today. I received no response.   
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During Texas visit to tout border wall, Trump takes swipe at Beto O'Rourke

Madlin Mekelburg, El Paso TimesPublished 1:43 p.m. MT Jan. 10, 2019 | Updated 2:17 p.m. MT Jan. 10, 2019

AUSTIN — After arriving in McAllen, Texas on Thursday for a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border, President Donald Trump deviated from his stated mission of promoting construction of the border wall to take a swipe at Democrat Beto O'Rourke. 

O'Rourke, who came within three points of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz during the midterm election, has been at the center of conversations about Democrat's presidential ticket in 2020. He has not announced plans to run.
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More: Beto O'Rourke makes 2020 election interesting in Texas, presidential run or not

In opening remarks before a round-table discussion on border security, Trump congratulated Cruz on his re-election before taking aim at his opponent and his 2020 buzz.

“Now he lost and he wants to run for president and I said I thought you had to win to run for president," Trump said, according to the pool report. He did not mention O'Rourke by name.

Trump came to Texas to campaign on Cruz's behalf during the election, speaking at an event in Houston alongside Gov. Greg Abbott and other officials.  read more
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