Former presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke accused Texas’s Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of intentionally sacrificing the lives of Texans for political gain via his decision to completely reopen the state’s economy.
“They literally want to sacrifice the lives of our fellow Texans,” O’Rourke told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace in response to Abbott’s move to reopen the state and lift all coronavirus restrictions. “For, I don’t know, political gain, to satisfy certain political interests within the state.”
GREG ABBOTT RULES OUT ANY CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWNS IN TEXAS
O’Rourke said his statement did not amount to hyperbole and called the Republican Party a “cult of death.”
Beto works in his requisite “death cult” talking point: “It’s hard to escape the conclusion that it’s also a cult of death … You have folks literally upending civilization as we know it.” pic.twitter.com/RSXlzZAbzh
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 3, 2021
The former congressman also attacked Abbott on Twitter and accused him of killing Texans with his incompetence throughout the coronavirus pandemic as well as during a recent snowstorm that left millions of Texans without power and dozens dead.
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“A death warrant for Texans,” O’Rourke tweeted. “Add them to the 44,000+ killed as he failed to confront the pandemic & botched the vaccine rollout. And those who froze to death because he cares more about energy companies’ profits than keeping Texans alive. Abbott is killing the people of Texas.”
A death warrant for Texans.
Add them to the 44,000+ killed as he failed to confront the pandemic & botched the vaccine rollout.
And those who froze to death because he cares more about energy companies’ profits than keeping Texans alive.
Abbott is killing the people of Texas. https://t.co/2idUcqSjJT
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) March 2, 2021
During a Tuesday press conference, Abbott told reporters that now is the time to “open Texas 100%” and that businesses who want to open should be allowed to do so. The Republican governor also said that the state’s face mask mandates will be rescinded.
