Congressman Beto O’Rourke begins his 34-day road trip through Texas with a visit to the Borderland

Candidate for the U.S. Senate Beto O’Rourke will continue his 34-day grassroots drive across Texas with a return to El Paso on Sunday. This follows the Congressman’s travels to all 254 counties of Texas as his people-powered campaign continues to hold open dialogues with Republicans, Democrats, independents and non-voters alike.

The event begins at 8:30 AM Sunday morning at the Beto for Texas El Paso Headquarters which is located at 415 E Yandell Dr, El Paso.

It will include menudo and Mariachias.

This visit is part of O’Rourke’s 34-day drive across Texas in which he is once again spending all of August on the road in his truck to show up and listen to his fellow Texans. The month includes nearly 100 events across the state.

“We’ve been very lucky, we;ve been getting amazing turnout everywhere. We’re going to be in Fort Davis tonight, Lubbock tomorrow, we’re going to every part of the state,” O’Rourke said.

Meanwhile Ted Cruz is beginning to get ready for the senatorial debates between the two.
O’Rourke invited Cruz to six debates, two in Spanish. Cruz accepting five debates all in English.

“What we’ve laid out is ‘let’s do a structured debate where we will cover all of the issues, but let’s do it in a way that we get into more than just talking points and get into real substance’,” Cruz said in an interview with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

The debates will be held from August 31st to October 12, all on Friday nights and on cities across the state.

“We deliberately wanted it geographically diverse, so we proposed cities across Texas: Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, McAllen, Lubbock,’ Cruz said.

Noticeably absent from that city list is El Paso, which O’Rourke has requested be used as a debate venue, crediting it for campaign support.

“The only reason this campaign is as successful as it is because of El Paso. All the great people of El Paso who are getting behind us and making this happen,” O’Rourke told ABC-7.

The debate schedule is as follows:

Aug. 31 in Dallas on “Jobs/Taxes/Federal Regulations/National Economy”
Sept. 14 in McAllen on “Immigration/Border Security/Criminal Justice/Supreme Court”
Sept. 21 in San Antonio on “Foreign Policy/National Security”
Oct. 5 in Houston on “Energy/Trade/Texas Economy”
Oct. 12 in Lubbock on “Healthcare/Obamacare”

Election day is 100 days away.