Where Does Beto O’Rourke Stand On The Issues? Here’s Everything You Need To Know.

Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke served as a U.S. congressman from El Paso, Texas from 2013 – 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, O’Rourke previously served as mayor pro tempore of El Paso and as a member of the El Paso city council. O’Rourke received much national fanfare over his much-ballyhooed 2018 U.S. Senate campaign, where he lost to incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). The Cruz-O’Rourke race was 2018’s costliest state-wide political race in the nation. O’Rourke is now seeking the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination, and has recently polled around fifth or sixth place.

O’Rourke, who is a fourth generation Irish-American, attended Columbia University and formerly played in a New York City-based punk rock band before moving back to El Paso. At an earlier age, he had a DWI by drunkenly driving into oncoming traffic and then attempting to flee the scene. He also used to belong to a computer hacker group called “Cult of the Dead Cow.” O’Rourke is married to Amy Hoover Sanders and is the father of three children.