It would be useful if every news profile on Beto O’Rourke came with a wet nap. It’s impossible to get through one without feeling like you just witnessed something gross.

It’s somewhat interesting that a Democratic U.S. Senate candidate is campaigning within a narrow margin behind the ever-awkward GOP Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas, where a Democrat hasn’t won statewide office since 1994.

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