Beto O'Rourke

and they were pissed off at the EPA that had come to impose a solution without asking the people of King County what was on their minds or how they would want to address this in the first place.

I knew if I were to win that Senate seat that that was going to be a priority for me and the people in King County knew that I was going to make that a priority.

And I did that 253 other times across the rest of the counties of the state of Texas.

So David, yes, those were my issues.

I wanted to make sure that every single person in every single county knew that I was going to fight for them because I had met them where they lived, listened to them, understood their challenges, and we'd agreed we were going to work on these things together.

I think that was so much of the success that I enjoyed.

It wasn't my position on reproductive health care or

foreign policy or any other issue.

It was that I had been to every county.

I had opened these town halls to any person, whether you liked me, didn't like me, Republican, Democrat, had a gun on your hip or came unarmed.

You were welcomed into our meetings and there were two microphones so everyone could have a say.

That became the story.

That's what you knew about me if you knew nothing else in that 2018 race.

That fucker went everywhere.

He showed up for everybody.

Wrote nobody off, took nobody for granted.

And that's the way that you run for mayor or city council.

I was a former city council member here in El Paso, Texas.

They aren't partisan issues.

It's do you know my neighborhood?