Beto O’Rourke Scorches Texas GOP Amid Pandemic: The ‘Death Cult’
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) is lambasting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), along with the state’s Republican lawmakers, as he deemed the Texas Republican Party a “death cult” due to its handling of the coronavirus…
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) is lambasting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), along with the state’s Republican lawmakers, as he deemed the Texas Republican Party a “death cult” due to its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
During Tuesday’s interview on MSNBC, O’Rourke expressed concern about the dire coronavirus situation in Texas. He discussed the hurdles Hidalgo county officials and judges are faced with as they attempt to mitigate the spread of the virus in the Rio Grande Valley.
O’Rourke accused Abbott of “choosing to allow people to die as the coronavirus runs rampant in the county.”
“This governor, our governor Greg Abbott, is choosing to allow people to die when he could choose to allow county judges to save their lives,” said O’Rourke.
He later added, “This is one of the most craven, callous failures of leadership that I’ve ever witnessed in my life.”
O’Rourke went on to call out Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) for his previous remarks insisting “there are more important things than living.”
He also noted that most of the minimum wage, frontline jobs in Texas are held by African-American workers, Latinos, and Mexican-American which would put those residents at higher risk of contracting the virus.
O’Rourke criticized Republican leaders’ presumed lack of regard for those residents.
“This is a death cult. The Texas GOP,” O’Rourke said. “Only they want you to do the dying, and that is exactly what’s happening in Texas right now.”