Beto O'Rourke

"Under Abbott, Texas leads the nation in rape offenses while the rate of arrests for rape has fallen by nearly half."

"38,000 Texans had their license to carry denied, revoked, or suspended over the last five years because law enforcement deemed them too dangerous to carry…

Texas is "50th in the nation in mental health care access."

"Under Greg Abbott, property taxes have gone up $20 billion."

"Right now, in the average Texas fourth grade classroom, 7 out of 10 kids cannot read at grade level."

"Expanding Medicaid, which if we had done at the beginning of the Abbott administration, would have brought in $100 billion to this state's economy."

“Energy experts and State House Dems, among others, were warning of this (the Texas power blackout) for years.”

"To be clear, I’m not talking about confiscating anybody’s guns."

"There are 390 million guns out on the streets of a country of 329 million people."

Says of El Paso that some years, "in a city of almost 700,000, we had five murders the entire year. Our average over the last…