Former presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke to host town hall in Kansas City
Beto O’Rourke is bringing his voter mobilization group’s Midwest tour to Kansas City.
The former Texas representative will host a town hall Aug. 4 at The Gallery Event Space in the Power and Light District. The town hall, sponsored through O’Rourke’s voter mobilization group, Powered By People, which he started in 2019, is for community members to discuss current issues and America’s future, according to a news release.
After six years in the U.S. House of Representatives serving Texas’s 16th district, O’Rourke failed to uproot longstanding state officials, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Governor Greg Abbott, from their respective positions in elections in 2018 and 2022. O’Rourke also campaigned for nearly eight months in the 2020 presidential election before suspending his campaign and endorsing President Joe Biden.
During his presidential campaign, O’Rourke, 52, met with veterans and local leaders while touring the Veterans Community Project in Kansas City.
O’Rourke has held other recent town halls across Texas, and will host one in Milwaukee on Saturday and one in Indianapolis on Sunday before he comes to Kansas City.
O’Rourke and his group will be traveling to Omaha, Oklahoma City and New Orleans after their stop in Kansas City.
