TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 5月24日 00時45分
@betoorourke first mulled a Senate run after Donald Trump’s election, traveling across #Texas to sound out voters on the idea. “We never took a poll,” he says. “Nobody from the state party ever asked me to consider it.” The skepticism about his chances of unseating Republican Ted Cruz as junior Senator is rooted in recent history. In 2014, Democratic state senator Wendy Davis, propelled to national celebrity by her filibuster of an abortion-limiting bill, launched a well-funded, widely hyped campaign for governor. She lost by 20 points. Whether O’Rourke can break through will, indeed, depend partly on the changing face of the Lone Star State. From 2010 to 2016, its Hispanic population grew by nearly 1.5 million. Two in five Texans today are Hispanic; by 2020, the state expects Hispanics to outnumber non–Hispanic whites. But demographics alone won’t be enough. Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, says the election odds strongly favor Cruz. “For the challenger,” she says, “there’s a path, but a narrow one.” Here, a wall in O'Rourke's campaign office in El Paso. Read the full story on TIME.com. Photograph by Benjamin Rasmussen (@benjaminras) for TIME
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