Beto O'Rourke made the Uvalde shooting all about himself

The shooting in Uvalde, Texas, resulted in the deaths of 19 children and two teachers.

Beto O’Rourke wants to make it all about himself.

While Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was holding a press conference about the shooting, O’Rourke decided to crash it. As part of a stunt to promote his campaign for governor, he shouted at and attempted to shame Abbott and Republicans for not choosing to “do something," i.e., confiscate guns. O’Rourke, like many of the prominent Democrats who claim these shootings are easily preventable, doesn’t actually have a solution responsive to the problem. But this is a political game for them.

That is especially true of O’Rourke, whose political future was made when legacy media propped him up as a cool, “Kennedy-esque” politician during his losing 2018 challenge to Sen. Ted Cruz. O’Rourke raked in millions from California and New York, spending $80 million for his challenge, as legacy media organizations fawned over his every move.