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ICYMI: Democrats Better Start Praying About the Midterm Elections

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Date: Feb. 17, 2022
Issues: Elections

Democrats Better Start Praying About Midterm Elections
By Karl Rove
Wall Street Journal

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Then there's the strategy of Robert Francis O'Rourke, the losing 2018 U.S. Senate and 2020 presidential candidate who now wants to become governor of Texas. He'll lose that race, too, but he might get a participation medal.

Mr. O'Rourke's strategy is to pretend all the positions you trumpeted before never really passed your lips.

In September 2019, while running for president, Mr. O'Rourke said "Hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15." Today he says "I'm not interested in taking anything from anyone. What I want to make sure that we do is defend the Second Amendment."

There's more. Running for Senate in 2017, Mr. O'Rourke called the border wall "racist" and by his 2020 presidential bid was saying "absolutely, I'd take the wall down" since it has "not in any demonstrable way made us safer." Now he declares that "we've got to have predictability, order, and the rule of law" at the border. That means people who enter the U.S. illegally and don't "have a credible asylum claim . . . should be deported back to the country from which they came."

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