Beto O'Rourke brings college tour to UT Austin
Beto O’Rourke’s college tour is a leap of faith that he can turn his star power and this moment in political history into the kind of voter turnout among younger Texans that he needs if he is to pull off what would likely be the most high-profile political upset of the 2018 midterm elections nationally.
So far, the tour, which began Tuesday at Austin Community College and resumed Thursday before an overflow student crowd at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and in the evening, a standing-room-and-seated-on-the carpet crowd of more than 1,200 in the ballroom at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center on the University of Texas campus, is generating the kind of fever-pitch energy that O’Rourke is counting on.
Taking the stage in Austin, O’Rourke said he is asked by reporters why he is devoting so much time at such a crucial juncture in the campaign on seeking to spur turnout among a notoriously under-performing segment of the electorate.
Because, he told his largely student audience, “This is where the action is.”
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