'Trying despite the odds': Beto O'Rourke embraces return to long-shot status in bid to oust Texas Gov. Greg Abbott

More than an hour after Beto O'Rourke had wrapped up a town hall meeting at Prairie View A&M University, three female students who had waited in a selfie line were trying to teach the former congressman a TikTok dance.

O'Rourke, the favorite for the Democratic nod in Tuesday's primary to take on Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, was struggling. But he embraced the embarrassment.

"You know what, that's good," he told them after several tries. "People will like that because it's so bad. It's so bad!"

It was typical O'Rourke: the kind...