Beto: A Poor Young Woman Gave Me $10 and I’m Keeping It Because I Want To Help Her

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O'ROURKE: "Thank you for being here. Thanks for asking the question. To provide some context, it’s been 30 years since 1988, Lloyd Benson, since Texas elected a Democrat to the Senate. It has been precisely since forever that El Paso had a statewide elected office holder. We really have our work cut out for us. We’re the largest of the lower 48, 254 counties. I want to make sure that we spare no expense, use every possible resource to make sure that we reach every single person. As I said earlier, we’re writing no one off. You can’t be too Republican for us to reach out to you and bring you into this campaign. You can’t be too much of a Democrat for us to not want to hear your story as well. That takes money. Those are resources that we need to use. Last week, I was in McKinney, Texas, and I met a young woman, 25 years old, who was on her way to her shift at Whataburger. She gave me a $10 donation, and she said, I’m giving this to you because I want you to win. I’m giving this to you because I had a significant medical condition from which I’m recovering, it’s been very hard to get insurance, to afford to see that doctor. I’m going to work at Whataburger to put myself through school to have a better job going forward. I don’t want to take her $10 and give it to another candidate in another state or another race here in Texas if she gave it to me to pursue the goals that we have in common. This is the election of our lifetimes. The future and the fortunes and fate not just of Texas, but I would argue this country hinges on our ability to be successful when we turn out to the polls on the 22nd of October, the first day of early voting, and November 6th, election day. So I want to make sure we not only run this in the right way but we win this in the right way. And I'm going to use every singe dollar to make sure that we do."

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Thank you for the question."