Congressman Beto O'Rourke

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🗓️ 6 February 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) is a rising star in the Democratic party hoping to unseat Republican Senator Ted Cruz, which would make him the first Democrat to win statewide office in Texas since 1994. And he's trying to do it without party consultants, pollsters, and PAC money. O'Rourke talks to Sam about Texas politics, immigration policy, campaigning, how he got into public service, the President's State of the Union address, and Kit-Kats. Email the show at [email protected] or tweet @NPRItsBeenAMin with your feedback.

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0:00.0	Some people like to look at the world through rose-colored glasses.
0:03.8	I prefer the lens of the social sciences.
0:06.5	There's more than one of you in this.
0:08.0	It's almost literally unimaginable.
0:10.2	I'm Shankar Vidyathan, host of Hidden Brain.
0:12.8	Each week we ask the questions,
0:15.0	what does it mean to be human?
0:16.6	And why do we do what we do?
0:18.6	Listen along as we find the answers.
0:22.6	Hey y'all, from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders. It's been a minute.
0:31.6	Today on the show, we have Beto O'Rourke.
0:33.6	Beto is a US congressman from the 16th District of Texas.
0:37.6	He is a Democrat and he is running this year against Ted Cruz,
0:41.6	a Republican you may have heard of.
0:43.6	Beto is trying to take Cruz's US Senate seat in Texas.
0:47.6	So Beto, of course, is not our first Texas congressman on the show.
0:50.6	This past December, I talked to Will Hurd.
0:52.6	He is a GOP House member.
0:54.6	Will and Beto's districts are right next to each other.
0:57.6	And last year, they took this big long bipartisan road trip from Texas to DC.
1:03.6	They live streamed it and did a bunch of press from inside their rental vehicle.
1:08.6	And so that trip proved how well,
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