Presidential candidate O'Rourke gets at look at Tulsa County flood damage

[TexasTowelie]

SAND SPRINGS — Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke spent several hours visiting Tulsa County flood victims Sunday and then met with party regulars at the local Democratic headquarters.

The trip was part campaign swing, part fact-finding mission for O’Rourke, a former Texas congressman fighting for position in the teeming Democratic presidential pool.

Texans, O’Rourke said, were long ignored by national campaigns because it seemed to be well-established how they would vote.

“No one ever listened to us in El Paso, my hometown, about what was most important to us, what we could offer to this great country,” O’Rourke said.

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