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    LOSING WITH LATINOS?

    Dec 24, 2021 5 minutes
    by ADRIAN CARRASQUILLO

    IN A JUST LAUNCHED RACE FOR GOVERNOR viewed as uphill by Texas political strategists, former Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke’s biggest obstacle in the hunt for Latino votes may not be incumbent Republican Greg Abbott, but his own previous statements.

    Social media posts from Latino conservative activists and Trump supporters have been going after O’Rourke on guns, using his statement during his brief presidential run that “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.”

    Those kinds of comments are being amplified on social media. According to social media tracking tool CrowdTangle, a video of O’Rourke being confronted over his support for gun control by a Trump-supporting Latino man in a cowboy hat named Robert Longoria yelling, “Don’t come back, we don’t want you here!” garnered 1.2 million views. Five of the

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