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O’Rourke Says He Wants to Run for President

March 13, 2019 at 5:10 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Beto O’Rourke tells Vanity Fair he wants to run for president: “You can probably tell that I want to run. I do. I think I’d be good at it. This is the fight of our lives. Not the fight-of-my-political-life kind of crap. But, like, this is the fight of our lives as Americans, and as humans, I’d argue.”

Asked about his rise, O’Rourke said: “I honestly don’t know how much of it was me. But there is something abnormal, super-normal, or I don’t know what the hell to call it, that we both experience when we’re out on the campaign trail.”

His wife, Amy O’Rourke, recalls the moment they first witnessed the power of O’Rourke’s gift during his campaign against Ted Cruz: “Every seat was taken, every wall, every space in the room was filled with probably a thousand people. You could feel the floor moving almost.”

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