{"id":1040961,"date":"2021-11-21T16:29:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T21:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1040961"},"modified":"2021-11-21T16:29:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T21:29:27","slug":"beto-wants-to-pursue-gun-confiscation-if-elected-texas-governor-declines-to-invite-biden-to-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beto-wants-to-pursue-gun-confiscation-if-elected-texas-governor-declines-to-invite-biden-to-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Beto Wants To Pursue Gun Confiscation If Elected Texas Governor, Declines To Invite Biden To Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbeto-wants-to-pursue-gun-confiscation-if-elected-texas-governor-declines-to-invite-biden-to-campaign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1040961&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Texas Democrat Robert Francis O\u2019Rourke, commonly referred to as \u201cBeto,\u201d told CNN during an interview on Sunday that he wants to pursue gun confiscation if he is elected to be the state\u2019s next governor, and he refused to say that he wanted President Joe Biden to campaign for him in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGun control, in particular, was your number one issue in your presidential campaign,\u201d CNN host Dana Bash said in reference to O\u2019Rourke\u2019s failed campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Bash then played a clip from one of the presidential debates where O\u2019Rourke declared, \u201cHell, yes, we\u2019re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs that what you would still do as governor of Texas?\u201d Bash asked O\u2019Rourke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, we are a state that has a long, proud tradition of responsible gun ownership. And most of us here in Texas do want \u2014 do not want to see our friends, our family members, our neighbors shot up with these weapons of war,\u201d O\u2019Rourke said. \u201cSo, yes, I still hold this view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bash later asked O\u2019Rourke about whether he would want President Biden to campaign for him in the state of Texas given Biden\u2019s low approval rating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA recent poll shows, though, that just 35 percent of Texans approve of his performance,\u201d Bash said. \u201cWould you like the president to come and campaign with you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis campaign in Texas is not going to be about Joe Biden. It\u2019s not going to be about Donald Trump. It\u2019s not going to be about anyone from outside of our state,\u201d O\u2019Rourke said. \u201cThis is going to be about the people of Texas and what the people of Texas want. And I have told you, they want the big things, like jobs, great schools, and making sure everyone can see a doctor. But they also want to see some competence in their government\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes that mean that you would prefer that he not come, based on what you just said?\u201d Bash pressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means that I\u2019m focused on Texas and on my fellow Texans. Those are the people most important to me,\u201d O\u2019Rourke claimed. \u201cThere\u2019s no politician, there\u2019s no other person from outside of this state who can help to change the course of this election for better or for worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>DANA BASH, CNN HOST: Welcome back to STATE OF THE UNION.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As national Democrats fret over low poll numbers and dissatisfied voters ahead of next year\u2019s midterm elections, in Texas, the state\u2019s most prominent Democrat thinks he\u2019s got a<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Democrat Robert Francis O\u2019Rourke, commonly referred to as \u201cBeto,\u201d told CNN during an interview on Sunday that he wants to pursue gun confiscation if he is elected to be the state\u2019s next governor, and he refused to say that he wanted President Joe Biden to campaign for him in the state.\u201cGun control, in particular, was your number one issue in your presidential campaign,\u201d CNN host Dana Bash said in reference to O\u2019Rourke\u2019s failed campaign.Bash then played a clip from one of the presidential debates where O\u2019Rourke declared, \u201cHell, yes, we\u2019re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.\u201d\u201cIs that what you would still do as governor of Texas?\u201d Bash asked O\u2019Rourke.\u201cLook, we are a state that has a long, proud tradition of responsible gun ownership. And most of us here in Texas do want \u2014 do not want to see our friends, our family members, our neighbors shot up with these weapons of war,\u201d O\u2019Rourke said. \u201cSo, yes, I still hold this view.\u201dBash later asked O\u2019Rourke about whether he would want President Biden to campaign for him in the state of Texas given Biden\u2019s low approval rating.\u201cA recent poll shows, though, that just 35 percent of Texans approve of his performance,\u201d Bash said. \u201cWould you like the president to come and campaign with you?\u201d\u201cThis campaign in Texas is not going to be about Joe Biden. It\u2019s not going to be about Donald Trump. It\u2019s not going to be about anyone from outside of our state,\u201d O\u2019Rourke said. \u201cThis is going to be about the people of Texas and what the people of Texas want. And I have told you, they want the big things, like jobs, great schools, and making sure everyone can see a doctor. But they also want to see some competence in their government\u2026\u201d\u201cDoes that mean that you would prefer that he not come, based on what you just said?\u201d Bash pressed.\u201cIt means that I\u2019m focused on Texas and on my fellow Texans. Those are the people most important to me,\u201d O\u2019Rourke claimed. \u201cThere\u2019s no politician, there\u2019s no other person from outside of this state who can help to change the course of this election for better or for worse.\u201dDANA BASH, CNN HOST: Welcome back to STATE OF THE UNION.As national Democrats fret over low poll numbers and dissatisfied voters ahead of next year\u2019s midterm elections, in Texas, the state\u2019s most prominent Democrat thinks he\u2019s got a shot.Former presidential candidate Beto O\u2019Rourke announced this week that he will challenge Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott for the statehouse next year, betting that 2022 is finally \u2014 finally the year Texas turns blue.Joining me now is Democratic candidate for Texas governor Beto O\u2019Rourke.Thank you so much for joining me this morning.So, you just saw Republicans take the governorship in Virginia, come within striking distance of doing the same in New Jersey. You\u2019re a Democrat running in a red state. It\u2019s a difficult year for your party. So how do you look at all that and say, OK, this is my time to run?BETO O\u2019ROURKE (D), TEXAS GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE: It\u2019s not so much my time. It\u2019s the time for Texas to realize our full potential.We really want to get back to doing the big things in this state, focusing on creating the best jobs in America right here in Texas, world-class public schools for our kids, and moving forward on commonsense ideas like expanding Medicaid, getting away from the extremism and divisiveness of Greg Abbott.The abortion ban that puts a $10,000 bounty on the head of any Texas woman trying to make her own reproductive health care decisions, the permitless carry bill that he signed into law allows anyone to carry a loaded firearm in public without any kind of background check, without any kind of training whatsoever, these policies that pit Texans against one another are keeping us from doing the big things that we really should be doing.I want to help bring this state together, not as Democrats and not as Republicans, but as Texans, and get back after doing the big things that Texas used to be known for. So, I don\u2019t know so much about the national political climate. I do know what the people in Texas want. And I want to make sure, as a candidate, as governor, I deliver on that.BASH: It was \u2014 gun control, in particular, was your number one issue in your presidential campaign.I want to play something that you said on the debate stage in 2019 shortly after a mass shooting in your hometown of El Paso.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)O\u2019ROURKE: Hell, yes, we\u2019re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)O\u2019ROURKE: We\u2019re not going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore.(END VIDEO CLIP)BASH: Is that what you would still do as governor of Texas?O\u2019ROURKE: Look, we are a state that has a long, proud tradition of responsible gun ownership. And most of us here in Texas do want \u2014 do not want to see our friends, our family members, our neighbors shot up with these weapons of war.So, yes, I still hold this view. But I also have been listening to my Texans, my fellow Texans who are concerned about this idea of permitless carry that Greg Abbott has signed into law, which allows any Texan to carry a loaded firearm, despite the pleadings of police chiefs and law enforcement from across the state, who said it would make their jobs more dangerous and make it harder for them to protect those that they were sworn to serve in their communities.So, we don\u2019t want extremism in our gun laws. We want to protect the Second Amendment. We want to protect the lives of our fellow Texans. And I know that when we come together and stop this divisive extremism that we see from Greg Abbott right now, we\u2019re going to be able to do that.BASH: Staying on guns for a moment, on Friday, a Wisconsin jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse in his murder trial.Rittenhouse claimed he acted in self-defense when he shot and killed two people and wounded a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year. What\u2019s your reaction to that verdict?O\u2019ROURKE: I mean, this entire tragedy makes the case that we should not allow our fellow Americans to own and use weapons that were originally designed for battlefield use.That AR-15, that AK-47 has one, single solitary purpose, and that is killing people as effectively, as efficiently, in as great a number, in as little time as possible. We saw that in Kenosha. We saw that in El Paso, Texas, where 23 people were murdered by someone with an AK-47 just in a matter of minutes.This is crazy. And we should not come to expect this as a matter of course in America. And the thing is, we don\u2019t have to.So, here in Texas, where most of us, including myself, grew up learning how to use firearms responsibly, let\u2019s bring that experience and knowledge to bear. Let\u2019s protect the Second Amendment. Let\u2019s also make sure that we protect one another by having commonsense gun laws. I know that we can do it.BASH: You campaigned for Joe Biden in 2020 at the \u2014 after your presidential run came to an end.A recent poll shows, though, that just 35 percent of Texans approve of his performance. Would you like the president to come and campaign with you?O\u2019ROURKE: This campaign in Texas is not going to be about Joe Biden. It\u2019s not going to be about Donald Trump. It\u2019s not going to be about anyone from outside of our state.This is going to be about the people of Texas and what the people of Texas want. And I have told you, they want the big things, like jobs, great schools, and making sure everyone can see a doctor. But they also want to see some competence in their government.We had an electricity grid failure here in this state this year, though we are the energy capital of North America, millions without power, hundreds who unfortunately died during that disaster. And, even afterwards, our governor has done nothing to protect this electricity grid.And you\u2019re seeing electricity and natural gas prices continue to increase in Texas, as rate payers pay for the damage done by this governor. People in this state want change. And they\u2019re focused on what\u2019s happening here in Texas, not on what\u2019s going on in the rest of the country.BASH: Does that mean that you would prefer that he not come, based on what you just said?O\u2019ROURKE: It means that I\u2019m focused on Texas and on my fellow Texans. Those are the people most important to me.There\u2019s no politician, there\u2019s no other person from outside of this state who can help to change the course of this election for better or for worse.BASH: A big issue\u2026O\u2019ROURKE: And that\u2019s why I\u2019m traveling to every part of this state, making sure that no one is written off and no one is taken for granted and that we keep the focus on Texas. BASH: I don\u2019t need to tell you a big issue in your state is immigration. There were a record number of apprehensions at the southern border this past year, nearly 1.7 million arrests.You said this week that President Biden could \u2014 quote \u2014 \u201cdo a better job\u201d at the border. Do you think his policies are contributing to surges there?O\u2019ROURKE: I don\u2019t think we have seen enough urgency when it comes to rewriting our immigration laws to match the needs and the reality that we see, especially in our border communities.As I listen to those who live on the border \u2014 and, as you know, Dana, my wife and I are raising our kids on the border here in El Paso \u2014 we want to make sure that we have the resources to meet some of the challenges that we have. We also want to make sure that the laws that we have on the books are improved to meet some of the reality that we see in our communities.So, yes, we expect more of our president and those who represent us in Congress, but we also expect more of our governor, who\u2019s using the border right now as a photo opportunity, scapegoating and vilifying immigrants, asking Texans to \u2014 quote \u2014 \u201cdefend themselves\u201d and take matters into their own hands from this invasion, as he describes it.That\u2019s the kind of dangerous rhetoric that inspired that gunman more than two years ago to come to Texas and kill people, claiming that he was defending this state from an invasion of Hispanics who were coming to take over.So, we have got to be more responsible. And we have got to be more responsive to what we see happening on the ground right now in Texas. As governor, I\u2019m going to listen to those who understand this issue better than anyone else, the people of the U.S.-Mexico border\u2026BASH: OK.O\u2019ROURKE: \u2026 and make sure that we have policy solutions and leadership that reflects that.BASH: OK, Beto O\u2019Rourke, thank you so much for joining me this morning.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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