Beto O'Rourke Greets Early Voters in Dallas
The Democratic candidate for Texas governor, Beto O’Rourke, met voters in Dallas on Monday October 24, as early voting for the midterm elections began in the city and state.
Video posted on Facebook shows the former congressman shaking hands and taking photos with people outside Our Redeemer Lutheran Church on Monday morning.
According to a poll of a 1,000 voters conducted by Emerson College on behalf of The Hill and the Nexstar Media Group between October 17 and 19, Abbott held a 10-point lead over O’Rourke, KXAN reported. However, a Beacon Research poll of 1,264 registered voters, published on Sunday, gave Abbott just a three-point lead, according to KWTX.
Texans could cast early votes from October 24 to November 4, or they could vote on Tuesday, November 8 — the day of the midterm elections. Credit: Beto O’Rourke via Storyful
Video Transcript
BETO O'ROURKE: Hey, good morning.
[APPLAUSE]
- How are you doing this morning?
[CHEERING]
- Why is that? Yeah.
BETO O'ROURKE: So you're going to get something important--
- Hey, Chris.
- Hey, good to see you.
- Steve Eberhart.
- Nice to see you get in, of course.
- Beto.
- Hi.
- Steve Eberhart, the business.
BETO O'ROURKE: Yeah, good to see you.
- How exciting.
- Third row. Can you show me where he's sitting?
BETO O'ROURKE: Yes.
[CHEERING]
BETO O'ROURKE: Right, so--
- We'll get him started.
BETO O'ROURKE: OK.
- Let's go, Beto.
- Whoo.
- Beto, Beto.
[BRAKES SCREECHING]
[HONKING]
[CHEERING]
- Whoo.
BETO O'ROURKE: Yeah. I just put it on. OK, I appreciate it.
- Good luck.
BETO O'ROURKE: Let's do it. And I look forward to seeing you back up in Gainesville, too. Thank you, appreciate it.
[CHEERING]
- Whoo.
BETO O'ROURKE: You good?
- And I'm sure you're going to hear this member time stamp, work pending today. We need to get out there after you, after your vote in there. We need to be building.
- It's a real forge with that name.
- Yes. Free to be out.
[CHEERING]
- Tell at least ten of your friends, and make sure they get out there and vote. I would say when you get as far as running from Texas--
- Go Beto.
- Whoo.
- Whoo.
- The next step, are you voting?
- Yeah.
BETO O'ROURKE: Time. Oh, you're good.
[APPLAUSE]
- Beto. Beto. Beto. Beto. Beto. Yay.
BETO O'ROURKE: It is a perfect morning to be voting.
- Yes.
BETO O'ROURKE: And to be winning.
- Yes.
BETO O'ROURKE: And to be doing this together. Thank you for coming out. We stopped to get some gas, put it in the truck before we came here. And as we were about to leave, a guy came out of the convenience store and he said, I just voted for you.
[CHEERING]
I said that feels so good to me. And he says it feels so good to me, too.
[LAUGHTER]
- Yeah.
BETO O'ROURKE: This is great. You know, all of us together have been in this for the better part of this last year. We've been knocking on doors.
- Five years.
- Five years.
BETO O'ROURKE: We've been having conversations. Some of us, it's been five years.
[LAUGHTER]
But we've been doing the really important hard work to win elections. This is where it all comes in. So the visits to these communities and these counties, the town halls that we've had, been getting out there in the Texas heat in the summer, knocking on doors, meeting voters, listening to them--
- Colleges.
BETO O'ROURKE: Bringing them in, these cool visits on college campuses, just over the last seven weeks we've registered more than 70,000 new voters.
[CHEERING]
We're giving out, we are so excited to help them get that done. And in addition to voting today, just as Elizabeth was saying, it is so important while we have so many days of early vote left to us, that we keep knocking on those doors.
- Right.
BETO O'ROURKE: Greg Abbott, the folks who are in power right now, are afraid of the people of Texas. That's why during the debate in a thousand person Hall in Edinburgh, they didn't allow a single soul in except for the camera operators and the moderators. They don't want to face their constituents. They draw them out of participating in this democracy by closing polling places, having these horrible voter ID laws, and allowing members of Congress to choose their voters instead of the other way around.
The only way to overcome that is to be on the doors of those who are the targets of the suppression, this intimidation, and make them the margin of victory when we win this on the night of November 8th.
[CHEERING]
And share with your friends, family, your classmates, your colleagues, what we are going to accomplish when we make this happen. We're going to make sure that we get behind our educators and pay them enough so they don't have to work a second or third job. We're going to prioritize the lives of our kids over the interests of the NRA.
- Yes.
[CHEERING]
BETO O'ROURKE: This week marks 22 weeks since those 19 kids and two teachers were killed in Uvalde. But I want you to take heart in this. Those parents and family members of those who were taken from us in Uvalde on the 24th of May, 2022, who could have stayed at home and never showed their face in public again, are leading this fight right now. They are organizing and rallying in Uvalde just as we are doing in Dallas today. We cannot be found wanting. We've got to come through for them, for every child, for every parent, for every student.
[CHEERING]
I'm still confident that we can. We can also make sure that we fight for every woman to make her own decision.
- Yes.
[CHEERING]
BETO O'ROURKE: And I know that we will get that done. But again we've got to talk to-- listen to one another, and bring each other in. Before you leave here, either after you vote or before you do, please take a picture. Post that picture on Twitter. If you have a Facebook account, post it there, Instagram as well, wherever you can.
And in your own words literally before you get in your car or walk off from here, tell people why you came out today to vote and encourage them to do the same. That more than perhaps anything else right now at this moment, will bring those other voters out. And if we keep this up, and if the people of Texas see us voting in record numbers today, they're more likely to vote tomorrow, the next day, and the day after.
I am convinced we are not so much a red state or a blue state as we are a non-voting state today.
- That's right.
BETO O'ROURKE: Our job, after we vote, is to get everyone else to vote as well. You all with me in this?
- Yes.
[CHEERING]
BETO O'ROURKE: We are going to win this election.
[CHEERING]
And now a word from the most popular man in Dallas, going to get down.
[CHEERING]
- What did he say?
- Please go vote. Please vote all the way down the ballot. We've got a lot of races on there. Vote for Beto and the entire team. Thank you all for being out there this morning. God bless you all.
[CHEERING]
- Fight, fight, fight. Fight, fight.
- Yeah, I know the freshman.
- Hi. How are you?
- We'll find out. Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
- Now you're clear, OK, here we go.
- I thought, I thought--
- How are you?
- Thank you.
- How are you?
- Good luck.
- Hello.
- Can you plunge for twenty?
- Yeah.
- Beto. Yes.
- This way.
- Yeah.
- Eleven hour at that. Yeah, makes it lucky.
- I count clear.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
- You're good, you're good, you're good.
- Oh my God. After you.
[CHEERING]
- Whoo.
- Yay.
- Family's ready.
- What are you telling?
BETO O'ROURKE: Andre.
- Thank you.
- Got you. Yeah, send them back that way. Send them back that way. Guys, the line's this way, guys, line's this way. Lines, let's see where.
- Oh, it is?
- Line's this way.
- Thank you so much.
- Hello.
- Oh, never mind. We're good, maybe at a longer stop. I'm going to go back.
- Whoo.
- Are you a granny for Beto? Are you a granny for Beto?
- Let's go. Beto. Let's go, Beto.
- Oh my gosh.
- Let's go. Beto. Let's go. Beto. Let's go. Beto.
- Oh.
- I've got to go get this darn right starts.
BETO O'ROURKE: Do you want to come up? So you don't have to wait in the rain. Here. Hey, right here. We're going to get a small child in.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You get over there.
BETO O'ROURKE: It's starting to rain, so--
- You're going to bring this baby up. Anybody need an umbrella?
- OK.
- You want to go first?
- I'll go.
- Yeah. Got to keep on making this.
- Me, I'll go. Hi, honey.
- Come on in.
- These kids always get the babies, bro, right?
- Always.
- I think we're good under the train.
BETO O'ROURKE: Yeah. This is going to do that.
- All right, y'all. Let's go beat here. Under control.
- Thank you.
BETO O'ROURKE: Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no, she's asking putting down Bree, I was like no. No, no.
- All right.
- Want to start getting out of the rain?
- How do you do that.
- Let's take a little bit of spice down.
BETO O'ROURKE: This is what you do on that, yeah. Not too shabby.
- Great job.
- Thank you.
- You, too.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
- They make beautiful?
BETO O'ROURKE: Yes, I would. If I could. Thank you for coming.
- You're good.
- So much.
BETO O'ROURKE: You, too. Hello. No. How have you been? Let me get this done. OK. All right to save.
- Thank you.
BETO O'ROURKE: Oh, that's good. Thank you. Spread the word?
- I'll tell everybody.
BETO O'ROURKE: Hi, come on over.
- All right.
- Yes, I do.
BETO O'ROURKE: Yeah, we sure do have to do it.
- Just over here.
BETO O'ROURKE: You have to vote yourself. Spread the word. Here we go.
- We already voted.
BETO O'ROURKE: Already voted.
[CHEERING]
- Here we go.
- Let's do this.
- And I'll go get ten more people out tonight. Thank you.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thank you. We're going to do this.
- Hi.
- Here we go. You ready? One, two, three.
BETO O'ROURKE: Hi, I'm making some emphasis.
- Have you voted?
- Yes.
- Nice.
- One, two, three, beautiful. Thank you so much.
BETO O'ROURKE: Appreciate you. Before you go.
- Here we go, one, two, three. Thank you so much.
BETO O'ROURKE: We've got to do work. We're going to do this.
- There we go.
- OK. Great.
- Win or lose, we do it.
- All right, freeze. There you go. Get in your frames.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thanks for voting. Hey, thanks for voting.
- My first time voting.
BETO O'ROURKE: He still does it?
- Yeah. Right.
BETO O'ROURKE: Spread the word.
- Right.
BETO O'ROURKE: Hi.
- We missed you.
- She has voted.
- Right, I like that. Voting for her. It's beautiful.
BETO O'ROURKE: I've read that. That's the spirit. One, two, three.
- Hey.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thank you.
- Yes.
BETO O'ROURKE: Here we are. You made it this far.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
- What a day.
- [MUSIC] Oh, na, na. Oh, na, na. Oh, na, na.
- The best. Already looked.
- Watches that needed fixing.
- No.
BETO O'ROURKE: This looks simple enough. We want this. Take the bait.
- I'll take the film from you.
- Oh, you'll take it.
- Yeah, yeah.
BETO O'ROURKE: She's no doubt better than I am.
- Come on.
- How do you normally deal with that?
- I know, I know.
BETO O'ROURKE: Where do we cling?
- Plano.
- Oh. You.
- Absolutely.
- Thank you for what you've done.
BETO O'ROURKE: We're doing it together.
- Yeah, nah. I forgot.
- There you go. Let me give you that.
BETO O'ROURKE: Let's get everybody in. It has to be an original. Hi.
- No problem.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thank you much. Cool.
- Everything like that.
BETO O'ROURKE: Doesn't it? We need to get back to that. Thanks. Hi. Appreciate your coming out.
- I'd turn my head into that.
BETO O'ROURKE: Get your picture here, keep it up. Keep it up.
- Thank you.
- Hi.
BETO O'ROURKE: Hi.
- I know, I have it in mind every time I call.
- It's time you--
BETO O'ROURKE: Got your back.
- Yes, we got you.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
BETO O'ROURKE: About the words. That's the link.
- There we go.
- Oh my gosh, I missed you. Oh my God.
- Right.
- I miss you.
- The voting takes back the fact.
BETO O'ROURKE: This. Looking good.
- Oh, you got it. Have a card in there. Oh, yeah, I put the card in there.
- Hi.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thank you for coming out.
- Got it.
- Thank you, Beto.
BETO O'ROURKE: Yes. Five hundred bucks here.
- Whoo.
[CHEERING]
- Yeah.
BETO O'ROURKE: Keep it up. That's good work.
- Thank you for running. That's all.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thank you.
- All right, group.
BETO O'ROURKE: We're doing this together. We're doing this together.
- You wait.
- No, where you run is what you get. One, two, three.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thank you. Appreciate it. It's going to be good.
- Thanks for you.
- Thank you.
- OK, 23 questions. All right.
- Bye.
BETO O'ROURKE: Looking up.
- Today share with me.
- Yeah. Thank you.
- Take a picture with me this scene?
- Yeah, then the curvature.
- Check this.
- Yay. You people.
BETO O'ROURKE: Hi.
- Massachusetts.
BETO O'ROURKE: I love it.
[CHEERING]
- I can't show my friends this picture.
- I don't know about that.
- I am, yes.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thank you. We're going to do this. Thank you. Coming out.
- Thank you. There you go.
- Thank you for voting. Thank you for voting.
- Going to do it. Going to do it. Thank you.
BETO O'ROURKE: Hey, good to see you. How are you?
- Good.
BETO O'ROURKE: Are you voting?
- Getting right up. Keep photos in memory.
- Hi, Beto. Hi, Cindy, we're going to see you in San Jose.
- Yes.
- We're coming, you will too.
- Let's do it.
- Got it. Perfect. All right.
- Yes. See you later. Good luck.
BETO O'ROURKE: Absolutely.
- Perfect.
- Perfect. You got it.
- Thank you.
BETO O'ROURKE: All right. Thank you all. Yeah. Hey.
- Nice.
- There you go.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thank you. Likewise Want to come with us.
- Not planned.
- Careful.
BETO O'ROURKE: Good, make sure he does.
- Bye now. and to take care.
BETO O'ROURKE: You're responsible for him. OK?
- Yeah, I'd meet you anywhere you were here. Thanks.
- Got it.
BETO O'ROURKE: Hi.
- I have some technology.
- Now we've got that.
- Thank you.
- See you later.
- Can you? First time voter.
BETO O'ROURKE: No way. First time voter.
[CHEERING]
[APPLAUSE]
BETO O'ROURKE: Coming out. You guys, come on over and get your photo.
- Here you go. Hi, there we go. Ready? Beautiful. Did you already vote?
- Not yet.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
BETO O'ROURKE: You live in North Carolina?
- Yes.
- Oh.
BETO O'ROURKE: You live in North Carolina, you know what it's like.
- Yeah.
BETO O'ROURKE: You're our hero, OK? We're counting on you.
- Calm down. Yeah. God, I'm with you.
BETO O'ROURKE: Share with you. There's a war on.
- And then-- out here, you said pretty much--
- I see.
BETO O'ROURKE: That's a new deal.
- Absolutely.
- Yes. Yeah. Seeing that you're coming into this, right here.
- I'll just try this.
- Oh, wait.
- Hey, how are you? Look at you. Yeah, come on. All right. Happy first day of voting. Yeah. Look over here. One, two, three.
BETO O'ROURKE: Yeah.
- All right, good job.
- Thank you.
- Say hi to mom.
- Thanks for being here.
BETO O'ROURKE: Two meets in one day. I'm pushing as hard as I honestly can.
- Keep pushing.
- Oh, yes.
- All right.
- What a wood cutting.
- Yeah.
- Not at all.
- Yeah.
- There we go.
- Best life.
BETO O'ROURKE: Yeah.
- All the way.
BETO O'ROURKE: What you're doing.
- Never late? My gosh. [LAUGHS]
- Are you kidding?
BETO O'ROURKE: Her plus one.
- One, two, three. Our guys will have--
BETO O'ROURKE: Counting on you all. Thank you.
- Thank you so much.
BETO O'ROURKE: I know that you know it. You got that psyched out.
- That's very good.
BETO O'ROURKE: No way.
- No kidding.
BETO O'ROURKE: You want to double further until we have nuts in there.
- I have a boy.
BETO O'ROURKE: You do? That's awesome. Thank you. We're going to do this.
- I know how hard it's going to be in Texas.
BETO O'ROURKE: It sounds like you're working pretty hard, too. What's you got there? Thank you.
- I'm running for JT.
BETO O'ROURKE: Right on, we've got to do this, brother. If I could get permission.
- This is Pepper.
- Pepper.
- Pepper, pepper.
- Yeah.
BETO O'ROURKE: You got to start yelling for him.
[SCREAMING]
- Thank you.
- Network.
- Hey, Pepper.
- Thank you so much for everything you're doing.
BETO O'ROURKE: We'll win this thing.
- Thanks so much.
BETO O'ROURKE: Knock on doors.
- Can I get my kid to take a picture.
BETO O'ROURKE: Absolutely.
- Hey, Beto.
- Here we go. Ready, one, two, three. Oh, got it. All right.
BETO O'ROURKE: Hey, nice to see you here.
- That's why I like your sign.
- Thank you.
BETO O'ROURKE: Spread the word.
- Absolutely.
BETO O'ROURKE: Hey, thanks for coming out.
- One, two, three. There we go. He has your invite.
BETO O'ROURKE: Appreciate you. Post up. Fine. Thanks for coming out.
- Thank you.
- One, two, three. Beautiful. Thank you.
- Yay.
- I know who.
- How you doing? I need to somehow.
BETO O'ROURKE: You've got to come through for me.
- Well, I can, but then proof's going to be above me.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thank you.
- Come on over.
BETO O'ROURKE: Got it.
- Here we go, ready. Look over here. Two, three.
- I'm running.
- Beautiful.
- Thank you.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thanks for being here.
- You ready, one, two, three.
BETO O'ROURKE: Keep it closer. Thank you.
- Sir, I met you. Give me a hug.
BETO O'ROURKE: Yeah.
- Here we go. Look at me, right over here. We've got it. Thank you so much.
- All right.
BETO O'ROURKE: Hold up all hands over here.
- I'm going to go vote.
BETO O'ROURKE: Appreciate it.
- Come on over, come on over.
BETO O'ROURKE: Hello. How you've been?
- All right, you ready? Look at me. One, two, three. Beautiful. Next.
- Bring that one up. Come on up.
- Thank you for voting.
- Thank you.
- Hi, how are you.
- I love to see you.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
BETO O'ROURKE: All right now.
- Thank you.
- Here we go. You ready? One.
BETO O'ROURKE: Five.
- Three.
- Yeah.
BETO O'ROURKE: Appreciate it.
- Not my first time voting.
BETO O'ROURKE: No, not at all. But you know what? Me neither, me neither.
- Look, I raised a little bit of money for you. Yeah.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thank you so much.
- Whoo. Thank you so much.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thank you for this.
- Absolutely. Up and up.
- Come on up. Yeah, right over here.
- Hi.
- All right, everybody look over here. One, two, three, we're going to go super-fast. One, two, three. There you go. Come on up.
BETO O'ROURKE: Spread the word, OK?
- Yes. Definitely.
BETO O'ROURKE: Who's that?
- Thank you.
- All right, y'all, look over here. We're going to go fast, fast, fast. One, two, ready? We're going to go super-fast, folks, to get to everyone. Yes, come on over. Come on over. Come over here. Move faster, faster.
BETO O'ROURKE: Hey, coming out.
- Here we go. Fast, look at me, one, two, three. Thank you for voting. Next.
BETO O'ROURKE: Appreciate you. Hello
- All right. Thank you for being here.
- Thank you.
BETO O'ROURKE: Appreciate it. You're welcome. Hi. moving up.
- All right.
- I'm running for county commissioner.
BETO O'ROURKE: Oh, we got to do this.
- Everybody look at me. One, two, three.
- That's right.
BETO O'ROURKE: All on the ballot.
- One, two, three. One, two, three. Thank you so much. Next.
BETO O'ROURKE: Appreciate it. Got to do it.
- Come on up. Come on up.
BETO O'ROURKE: Yeah, likewise. You are doing it.
- Here we go. Hey, look over here. One, two, three, we got it.
[APPLAUSE]
BETO O'ROURKE: Yes, sir. Thank you.
- Fast, go fast. Everyone back.
BETO O'ROURKE: Hey.
- There we go.
BETO O'ROURKE: Hey.
- First time voter.
- Yay.
- Did I do that?
- No. It's totally fine. When-- used to road life. Here we go.
- And the future of the scene.
- Come on up. Come on up. One, two, three. Thank you for voting.
- Thank you.
BETO O'ROURKE: Hey.
- We got the picture.
- All right, one, two, three. Look over here, beautiful. Thank you, next.
BETO O'ROURKE: No, you're good. Thank you so much for coming out.
- Ready, look at me, one, two, three. Thank you for voting.
BETO O'ROURKE: Hello.
- Fast, fast, fast.
- Hi.
- Here we go, everybody look at me. One, two, three, beautiful. Next.
BETO O'ROURKE: Who prints out?
- Absolutely.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thank you.
- Appreciate it.
- Come on over.
- No.
BETO O'ROURKE: Good to see you.
- You bet.
[HORN HONKING]
[CHEERING]
- All right, y'all look over here.
BETO O'ROURKE: All right, you want to get it, over there. Look over there. OK, y'all look right.
- Y'all look over here, one, two, three. Yes, sir, I do. There we go. Thank you both so much.
BETO O'ROURKE: Only check this out.
- Yeah.
BETO O'ROURKE: You got animal stickers.
- Wow.
BETO O'ROURKE: You've got awesome fish.
- Yay.
BETO O'ROURKE: I think I do.
- All right. Thank you.
- All right. Thank you.
BETO O'ROURKE: Spread the word.
- Beto.
- Right.
- A fellow Democrat.
BETO O'ROURKE: Oh, wonderful. Thank you for what you're doing.
- Right over here. One, two, three. We're going to do this one too, one, two, three. Thank you so much for voting.
- All right.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thank you, likewise. All right, we're going to do this.
- That's right.
- Great guy.
- Whoo.
- Over here, over here. Perfect, next.
- Whoa.
BETO O'ROURKE: Ben, hi.
- Hi.
- Ready, y'all look over here. One, two, three. Yes, we got it.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thank you. I appreciate it. We're going to do this. Hi.
- And off we go. Ready? Look over here. One, two, three. All right.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thank you for the debate. Thank you.
- How you doing?
- Yes, I did. Thank you.
BETO O'ROURKE: Appreciate it. Spread the word.
- I'm been waiting on you, Beto. I've been waiting on, Beto.
BETO O'ROURKE: I've been waiting on you, too.
[LAUGHTER]
- Over here, now let's go. We've got you. Thank you.
BETO O'ROURKE: Thank you so much. Hey, good to see you. But you never know.
- All right, we're going to go fast, fast, fast, folks. One, two, three, thank you, next. Come on over.
BETO O'ROURKE: Appreciate you.
- OK, good luck.
BETO O'ROURKE: Here we go.
- Come on up. Ready, here we go. Look at me, one, two, three. Look over here.
BETO O'ROURKE: We're going to do this.
- Thank you. Next.
BETO O'ROURKE: I appreciate you.
- Here we go. One, two, three. Thank you so much. Thank you. Come on up, the baby.
BETO O'ROURKE: Give us some room here.
- All right, y'all look at me. Ready, one, two, three. Beautiful. Thank you.
BETO O'ROURKE: Spread the word.
- There we go. One, two, three. Thank you for voting.
- You're welcome.
- Feel like you're doing this.
BETO O'ROURKE: Works for goodness.
- Ready, look over here. One, two, three. You got it. Thank you, sir.
- Go get them.
- Come on up.
BETO O'ROURKE: Spread the word. Post it online.
- This is my sister.
- Oh. How you doing?
BETO O'ROURKE: I love it. Come on.
- Betsy, I'm going to take it online and I'll text it to you. One, two, three, beautiful. Thank you. One last one. I'm going to text that.
BETO O'ROURKE: We're going to do this.
- We're going to do it.
- Thank you for coming.
- Hey, Beto.
BETO O'ROURKE: Yeah. You know what? You're using it harder. So thank you. Yeah.
- Thank you for being here.
BETO O'ROURKE: Yeah, we got your back.
- Thank you.
BETO O'ROURKE: Hey.
- That's right. I like that.
- Here we go. Look over here. All right. Here we got you.
BETO O'ROURKE: To you as well.
- Let's move.
- Yeah.
- Ivan got one.
- Yeah.
- Ivan, right there.
- He's here today.
- I don't know.
- Yes, I do.
