{"id":128282,"date":"2026-01-18T19:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128282\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:37:07","slug":"beto-orourke-wont-endorse-in-texas-senate-democratic-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128282\/","title":{"rendered":"Beto O\u2019Rourke won\u2019t endorse in Texas Senate Democratic primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Beto O\u2019Rourke says he will not make an endorsement in the Democratic primary for Senate, calling U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett and state Rep. James Talarico \u201cgenerational talents\u201d who have what it takes to win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cI believe in the Democratic voters of the state of Texas, who are going to have a real close and personal look at these two phenomenal candidates,\u201d armed with appealing messages, fundraising skills and media presence, O\u2019Rourke told Hearst Newspapers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Crockett and Talarico square off in the March 3 primary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Instead of picking a side, O\u2019Rourke said he will focus on his Powered By People political action committee. He said that\u2019s aimed especially at young voters and relies on more personal engagement to boost turnout for the eventual nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to make sure we have enough net new Democratic voters who aren\u2019t just on the rolls, but are engaged, involved, informed and turn out to vote,\u201d O\u2019Rourke said. \u201cThat is exactly the kind of thing that I wish was in place when I was running in 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">That\u2019s when the former El Paso congressman lost to GOP Sen. Ted Cruz by 215,000 votes, or 2.6 percentage points. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beto O\u2019Rourke says he will not make an endorsement in the Democratic primary for Senate, calling U.S. Rep.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[288,223,287,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-128282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-elections","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-politics","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}