AP offers correction after reporting Beto O’Rourke spoke ‘in his native Spanish’

Published April 1, 2019 7:03pm ET



The Associated Press faced backlash on social media Monday after writing that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke spoke “in his native Spanish” at a rally in El Paso, Texas.

Although O’Rourke speaks Spanish, he a fourth-generation Irish-American whose full name is Robert Francis O’Rouke.

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