Who is Beto O’Rourke and how did he get here?

In just 10 years, Beto O’Rourke went from being an El Paso city councilman to maybe the Democrat’s best hope of defeating Donald Trump.
In politics, the phrase “meteoric rise” is overused. But in the case of O’Rourke it fits given that just two years ago, most Democrats — even in Texas — barely knew anything about him. Now voters from coast to coast are about to put the 46-year-old Texan under a political microscope.
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