Background and Age

Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke was born on September 26, 1972 in El Paso, Texas. He was born as the child of Pat and Melissa O'Rourke. His father was in legislative issues, filling in as a Democratic district chief and judge before changing parties and mounting a fruitless crusade for Congress. His mom worked in a furniture store. O'Rourke's family had moved from Ireland four ages previously, yet the youngster went byby "Beto"— short for Roberto in Mexico.

Career and Net Worth

O'Rourke was shot to political popularity with his 2018 bid for U.S. Senate against Republican occupant Ted Cruz. He livestreamed a 254-district voyage through Texas and his role in the House. He was well known with small donors and progressive activists, much the way Bernie Sanders was in running for president in 2016.

His political career started on a smaller level as a member of El Paso city committee from 2005 to 2011. It was during his residency on local grounds that he wound up associated with a contention that set him unequivocally between the premiums of his well off financial specialist father-in-law and the irate occupants and independent ventures he was chosen to speak to. O'Rourke favored his father-in-law and openly upheld the arrangement to supplant apartments and barricaded structures in downtown El Paso with eateries, shops and an arts walk, a move that maddened his constituents.

His initial step into the national political spotlight came in the May 2012 Democratic congressional essential in Texas, when O'Rourke knocked off an eight-term occupant who had been embraced by President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton, U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes. O'Rourke was chosen that year to speak to the sixteenth Congressional District in El Paso.

In August 2019, the former Texas congressman who once represented El Paso, made the allegation that President Donald Trump is racist in an interview on MSNBC's program with host Nicole Wallace. Subsequent to taking note of he had recently called Trump a bigot, she inquired as to whether he accepted the president was a racial oppressor. Beto replied, "He is. He has made that very clear. He dehumanized those who do not look and pray like the majority of people here. He said I wish we had more immigrants from Nordic countries because those from Haiti bring AIDS, those from Africa are shithole nations.

Marriage, Wife and Kids

Beto O'Rourke married his better half, Amy, in 2005. She is the little girl of rich land investor William "Bill" Sanders. The O'Rourkes have three children named Ulysses, Molly and Henry.