Former congressman Beto O’Rourke, who lost his run for U.S. Senate in 2018 and failed in his run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, announced Monday he is running for governor of Texas.

Many Democrats consider him an embarrassment, and that’s not merely because of his losing record amid the embarrassingly glowing media coverage, but because O’Rourke says what most Democrats believe but know they are not supposed to verbalize.

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