> The GOP is desperate to discredit him because he puts Texas into play a couple years early. This smells like a weak hit job. He agreed to be interviewed for

> The GOP is desperate to discredit him because he puts Texas into play a couple years early. This smells like a weak hit job. He agreed to be interviewed for this, so this would be a pretty poor attempt at a hit job if it was one. Source: > No one in cDc would talk about O’Rourke until I promised not to publish before the 2018 election. That was OK: I wanted the full story for my book, which spans decades, rather than 1 scoop ahead of a state vote. I offered O’Rourke the same terms. He accepted, and we spoke. (8/10) https://twitter.com/josephmenn/status/1106578743181496321 https://twitter.com/josephmenn/status/1106578743181496321