Sunday, June 23, 2019

Some Tweets from Beto O'Rourke


  • It's only when we tell everyone’s story that this country is going to live to its full potential. It’s only by bringing everyone in that we defeat Donald Trump and bring this country together to achieve our true success.
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    .: “It’s still shocking, and bears repeating: The disparity in infant mortality today in America between white America and black America is greater today than it was in 1850, 15 years before the abolition of slavery.”
  • This grassroots campaign is about bringing people in, bringing this country together, and making sure that our democracy finally works for everyone.
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    Recounting several anecdotes from his travels throughout South Carolina - & becoming the 1st candidate today to address the crowd in the round - tells , “It is only when we tell the story of this country do we come together.”
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    Energy had been dropping at the SC Democratic convention as they went through a bunch of lower-tier 2020 candidates. Then this just walked in:
  • Very grateful for those who have been marching with us in South Carolina over the last three months, those who marched today, and those who will continue to march in the days and weeks ahead. Honored to be doing this with you.
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    Some of the loudest chants I’ve heard today for . “Let’s go Beto, B-E-T-O.”
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    2020 Presidential candidate Beto O’rourke is live w/ me on from the SC Dem Convention, tune in to MSNBC
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    .’s take on at the : “You came in differently — down the aisle, you didn’t take the stage. And you stood among the people and you talked passionately. And I think that’s the the country is beginning to see.”
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    : “We must do everything we can to ensure that we live up to the full character and potential and promise of this country...”
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    . speaks from the aisle at while his supporters take the stage.
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    is energizing the crowd!!! He didn't take the stage, he stayed on the floor and spoke with the crowd around him
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    . is switching things up, speaking inside a mob of supporters
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    So brought a bunch of people with campaign signs into the SCDP Convention room and decided to speak from the floor and not the stage, and it looks way different on TV from the rest...
     
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    Beto O’Rourke greets cheering supporters before speaking at the South Carolina Democratic Convention.
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    Forgoing the stage & podium, working in the round, surrounded by the crowd at convention.
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    just turned the convention into a coffee shop meet & greet, making a chair his stage surrounded by a sea of supporters.
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    Beto O’Rourke recreates vibe of his town halls and ditches podium at SC Dem convention. If you’re a delegate who’s been in this ballroom since 10 am hearing speech after speech, you’d probably remember this as different.
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    got everyone on their feet at the convention! His remarks were strong and he stands with conviction!
  • South Carolina! Marching to the state convention.
  • Honored to be with such incredible advocates, activists, & champions today. Thank you for leading this fight at a time of unprecedented attacks on women and their health care. We will protect Roe v. Wade and defend a woman’s right to make her own decisions about her body.
     
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    on Texas: More than a quarter of our clinics have closed. We have a maternal mortality rate that is 3 times worse for black women. We need better health care, especially for women of color. It's an issue of life and death.
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    “It’s a perverse irony that those who provide health care for others in our country often can’t afford health care for themselves”
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    : “In 2021 … we’re going to live according to our values, and our interests, to our foundational principle that we are all created equal, and to the 1973 decision Roe v. Wade which is the settled law of the land, as far as I’m concerned.”
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    is a settled law of the land, as far as I’m concerned,” said just minutes ago at the forum
  • Women's rights and access to abortion are under attack and we must mobilize every branch of government to do everything we can to protect reproductive freedom. We just shared our plan to do exactly that while at ’s forum.
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    2020 DEMS TALK ABORTION: Democratic candidates face tough questions on reproductive rights at ’s presidential forum in South Carolina. With 20 confirmed candidates, this is the most widely attended forum of the race thus far. Streaming excl
  • Huge honor to join members of . Grateful for the discussion on rewriting our immigration laws, fighting climate change, and ensuring we stop Trump from changing the census in a dangerous effort to draw people out of their democracy.
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    Up first is , who is recapping what he’s learned during his recent trips through South Carolina. “Thank you for sharing your story with us,” he says.
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    Clyburn praising effusively for ‘helping establish the tone.’ And , In a Clyburn t-shirt, talking about ensuring SC part of ‘national story’