“If we don’t call this out, if we don’t do something, our silence becomes our complicity, not just in the hatred and the racism from the president, but in the violence that we saw here in El Paso just a couple of days ago.”— Beto O'Rourke, rev.com
“This is a city that in an average year will lose 18 people over the course of the year. In one day, 20 people killed in a hateful, racist, murderous rage, in part, inspired by this president. So we’ve got to ask everyone in this country, I could care less about your party. You got to stand up and be…”— Beto O'Rourke, rev.com
“I'm saying that President Trump has a lot to do with what happened in El Paso yesterday. Anybody who begins their campaign for the presidency by calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. Anyone who as president describes asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border as an infestation or an invasi…”— Beto O'Rourke, cbsnews.com