{"id":1624968,"date":"2022-08-29T05:04:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1624968"},"modified":"2022-08-29T05:04:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T09:04:16","slug":"beto-orourke-diagnosed-with-bacterial-infection-while-campaigning-for-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beto-orourke-diagnosed-with-bacterial-infection-while-campaigning-for-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Beto O\u2019Rourke Diagnosed With Bacterial Infection While Campaigning for Midterms"},"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\">20<\/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-orourke-diagnosed-with-bacterial-infection-while-campaigning-for-midterms%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=1624968&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-texas\">Texas<\/a> gubernatorial candidate Beto O\u2019Rourke said on Sunday that he\u2019s been diagnosed with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-bacterial-infection\">bacterial infection<\/a> in the midst of his campaign ahead of the\u00a0midterm elections on Nov. 8.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Rourke, 49, confirmed the news in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetoORourke\/status\/1563981544544509952\">statement<\/a> on Twitter and said he planned to take a break from the campaign trail to recover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter feeling ill on Friday, I went to Methodist Hospital in San Antonio where I was diagnosed with a bacterial infection,\u201d he wrote, while praising the \u201cextraordinary team\u201d at the hospital for his \u201cexcellent care and attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctor\u2019s recommendations,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic nominee for governor\u00a0did not state when he would return to the campaign trail, which started in July. The news of\u00a0O\u2019Rourke\u2019s illness came after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caldwelldemocrats.org\/events\/beto-o-rourke-lockhart-on-8-25-is-canceled-and-will-be-rescheduled-2022-08-25\">canceled<\/a> a number of\u00a0events last week, including in Lockhart, central Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sorry to have had to postpone events because of this, but promise to be back on the road with you as soon as I am able,\u201d\u00a0O\u2019Rourke added.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Rourke was set to make appearances at Corpus Christi, Three Rivers, and Goliad this weekend for his 49-day\u00a0\u201cA Drive for Texas\u201d\u00a0campaign event but will reschedule those appearances after falling ill, his campaign staff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/texas\/beto-orourke-missed-south-texas-events-due-to-bacterial-infection\/503-a8064e1c-18ee-44b4-a8b7-be395230b8b1\">told<\/a>\u00a03NEWS.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Rourke, who was born Robert Francis\u00a0O\u2019Rourke, previously ran for a Texas Senate seat but narrowly lost to incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n<p> Tight Race <\/p>\n<p>He is challenging incumbent Gov.\u00a0Greg Abbott, a Republican, in the November election in what is expected to be a close race.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott was leading O\u2019Rourke by seven points in a\u00a0recent Dallas Morning News\/University of Texas at Tyler poll (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uttyler.edu\/politicalscience\/files\/dmn-uttyler-aug2022.pdf\">pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Rourke has joked that he is \u201cwatching my swearing\u201d at recent campaign stops after\u00a0calling a heckler an expletive earlier in August. The incident came after the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O\u2019Rourke said on Sunday that he\u2019s been diagnosed with a bacterial infection in the midst of his campaign ahead of the\u00a0midterm elections on Nov. 8. O\u2019Rourke, 49, confirmed the news in a statement on Twitter and said he planned to take a break from the campaign trail to recover. \u201cAfter feeling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1624968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}