Beto O'Rourke officially kicks off 2020 campaign with attacks on Trump's immigration policy
EL PASO, Texas – Beto O'Rourke stood on a platform Saturday morning in the multicultural heart of downtown El Paso's shopping district – only blocks from the U.S.-Mexico border – challenging President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
Officially launching his presidential bid on historic South El Paso Street, the multicultural shopping district linked to Mexico by an international bridge, is fitting for a candidate who has told the El Paso Times that his hometown, and the U.S.-Mexico border, will be key components of his campaign. One, he has said, aimed at providing a more nuanced view of the border than the picture painted by President Donald Trump of a dangerous place in need of a completed border wall to be safe.
He spoke with his wife, Amy Sanders O'Rourke, in their 114-year-old home in the historic Sunset Heights neighborhood in Central El Paso – only blocks from the U.S.-Mexico border. O'Rourke, 46, is the first El Paso politician to seek the nation's highest office and the only candidate in the race who lives on the U.S.-Mexico border.
"El Paso it was your story that I told all across Texas in every single one of those 254 counties," O'Rourke said.
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