Beto O´Rourke, on a `suicide mission´ against Ted Cruz, is having the time of his life - and might even come out of it alive
(WorldNews Politics)

More HUTCHINS, Texas - Beto O´Rourke was trying hard to play it cool, but finally, he just couldn´t resist. `I have to show you this,` the Democratic congressman from El Paso, Texas, said, reaching into his pocket to grab his iPhone, where he began scrolling through text messages. `Sorry, I´m so excited about it.` It was shortly after noon on a recent Saturday, and O´Rourke, or simply `Beto` as voters here have come to know him, had been going since around dawn in what Republicans and even some Democrats here once described as a `suicide mission` to unseat the state´s junior senator, Ted Cruz. He had just wrapped up his fourth stop of the day - a town hall in this small suburb south of...