Former El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke joined Democratic Senate hopeful MJ Hegar on her Grassroots Fundraising podcast on Thursday night.
He called her an “exciting candidate that we can all rally behind”, while explaining that her ability to inspire hope is what differentiates her from her opponent in November, incumbent Senator John Cornyn.
Beto called for the viewers and listeners to do what they can to make sure she can best be able to compete for the Senate seat in November. “Let's make sure that she can respond and let's make sure that she can reach everyone, especially because she cannot hold rallies or town hall meetings or knock on their doors in person,” said O’Rourke on the podcast. “You’ve got to give her the resources to reach them at a distance.”
Unable to let the partnership go unnoticed, Senator Cornyn used it to help generate campaign donations as well.
Cornyn sent out an email blast on Thursday to donors, talking about the new teammates. It read that Beto was back and “They both want the same thing: Big money to enrich the liberal mob, weaken our communities, and install the dangerous leftist agenda for decades to come.”
During a Campaign ZOOM call with frontline food service workers earlier in the day, MJ Hegar responded to the line from Cornyn saying, “I take real offense to him calling a grassroots movement of regular working Texans, his constituents by the way, calling them a mob.” Hegar then stepped up the attack on her Republican opponent. “We don't have a mob,” said Hegar. “We have a lot of regular working families in Texas that are really sick and tired of him dismissing us, like he dismisses these front line workers.”