Published: March 29, 2019
The presidential hopeful drew big crowds across the state, but he admits he has ‘a ton to learn’
Before Beto O’Rourke arrived at Pour Coffeehouse in Las Vegas, the crowd, which stretched from the back of the cafe, through its front doors and deep into the plaza’s parking lot, had grown restless. Inside, a man offered $100 to blast the air conditioner. Outside, supporters raised signs high to shield a group of hecklers carrying a Trump 2020 banner and shouting an ethnic slur into a bullhorn.
This was not the aspirational vision of America that the presidential hopeful had described in soaring rhetoric to rapt audiences on his 10-day, eight-state journey across the country. But it was a consequence, he said, of Trump’s America.
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