By Jeremy Wallace, Houston Chronicle April 20, 2018
On a college campus, at a meeting hall packed with legions of liberal Democrats whipped up into a frenzy about calls for universal health care and an end to college debt, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke got more than 1,000 of his faithful supporters to cheer the name “Donald J. Trump.â€
Never mind that Trump is sporting an approval rating in the single-digits among Democratic voters.
The Democrat, whom U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is trying to paint as a liberal backed by Hollywood elites, turned Trump into an applause line at Texas Tech University. O’Rourke — as he did in more than a dozen other speaking engagements from Houston to Midland over the last several weeks — talked about Trump signing a bill that included a provision O’Rourke had nurtured and helped turn into law.
But while O’Rourke was using Trump to highlight a legislative success, he also was ringing a bell on the core of the strategy he’ll be employing to go after Cruz, who has a reputation of struggling to get along with both Republicans and Democrats in Congress. In trying to avoid the traditional “liberal†tag Democrats in Texas have often found themselves struggling to keep of them, O’Rourke is out to prove he’s better able to work with all sides in Washington — even other Republicans — than Cruz.
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