O’Rourke, Trump duel over wall, immigration in possible poll preview
Potential White House hopeful accuses president of stoking ‘false fear’ about immigrants
El Paso — Potential White House hopeful Beto O’Rourke accused Donald Trump of fear mongering on Monday and the Republican president mocked the Democrat as a “young man who lost” in duelling rallies that could preview the tenor of the 2020 election campaign. O’Rourke, who narrowly lost his 2018 bid for a US Senate seat, accused Trump of stoking “false fear” about immigrants and telling “lies” about his hometown, El Paso, which Trump said was a dangerous place before it had a border fence. “We stand for America and we stand against a wall,” O’Rourke told a crowd of several thousand supporters, many waving “Beto 2020” signs and wearing “Immigrants Make America Great” baseball caps. In El Paso County Coliseum, close by, Trump told his supporters that O’Rourke has “little going for himself, although he’s got a great first name”. “We are all challenged by a young man who lost an election to [Republican Senator] Ted Cruz,” said Trump. He said that O’Rourke's rally is smaller than his and t...
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