Beto O'Rourke actually said...

"He's presiding over a state that is approaching the classic definition of a failed state, but literally cannot guarantee electricity, running water, heat when temperatures are dropping into the single..."

"He's basically told Texas, you're on your own. He and the rest of our state government have given up, we're left to our own devices."

"I don't know why he would do this. I know that in doing so many more of our fellow Texans are going to die beyond the 44,000 who've already come to COVID in the ill prepared way that he met the pandem..."

"the folks who made these decisions are still in power and we need to make new decisions and potentially have new people in those positions of public trust to make them if we`re not going to have this ..."