Elections

Beto O’Rourke Fires Blanks at Democratic Debate

‘PURITY TESTS’

His position on gun confiscation may be idealistic, but it is also constitutionally dubious, practically impossible, and politically suicidal.

Matt Lewis
Matt Lewis 

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