Gov. Abbott’s Steps ‘Fall Short’ Of What Texas Needs Amid Rising COVID-19 Cases | MSNBC

Former Texas Congressman and Beto O'Rourke weighs in on the spike in COVID-19 cases in Texas, says that if the governor had not prematurely reopened the state … we could have saved lives." Aired on 6/26/2020.
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Gov. Abbott’s Steps 'Fall Short' Of What Texas Needs Amid Rising COVID-19 Cases | MSNBC

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    1. The US is 22nd in the world for tests per capita. But Trump wants to slow testing down to make himself look better!

    2. @Chris Mitchell I know. I’m in Dallas and everything was fine until Abbott intervened. I’m so disgusted with him and Dan Patrick.

  1. Letting all the vulnerable Texans die!!! The economy is going to be triple hit driving drunk over the cliff

    1. @John Lyons name one policy of Trump?
      You can’t because you don’t know.
      You don’t know why you are following him.
      Who is the sheep?
      What is one policy?

    2. @John Lyons I wonder how north Korea fell into the dictators trap?
      How did the nazi party take control?
      What are the common traits of dictators?
      Them vs us
      Always having a foe?
      Making it seem that the dictator is a victim?
      Going against any morality?
      Have no compassion?
      You trust a billionaire to have any feelings for the average person.
      Meanwhile he gassed his people to hold a bible upside down.
      Cant tell you anything about the book .
      You trust a person who needs his name on a building.
      Look at the common traits of dictators and cult leaders and see where you have been scammed.

    3. @John Lyons the saddest part is you don’t even know that you have been scammed.
      You have sold your soul to fear of.

    1. Never. Trump himself can’t be arsed with the virus anymore. To him it’s just an annoying distraction. He’s basically declared victory over the pandemic already and is now trying to move on from it.

      Unlike all his other controversies though, this one is not going away!

    2. Why, what happened?
      Serpent cop killed a black dude and the serpent left antichrist network is gutting the nation with a hoaxed out labmade virus.
      The democratic party is a front for the devils, always was proving youre a practicing beast system slave

  2. Why people put up with a guy like Abbot who a month ago took a position of total denial and went full steam ahead ‘we’ll be okay’. Then sits there at a news conference with a ‘well something has happened’ like it was all new to him. Abbot insults voters with a pivot that he doesn’t even admit to. You cannot ignore that minorities bear the brunt … no skin off his nose.

    1. You think that’s bad? Trump was the same but he’s still yet to acknowledge that cases are rising

  3. BETOOOOO…..RUN FOR GOVERNOR MAN. BE A ” BIG FISH IN SMALL POND !!!”
    As a TEXAN, we STILL SUPPORT YOU. MAKE OUR STATE BLUE BETOOO.

    1. Great idea! I would vote for Beto in a heartbeat! He is a native Texan who loves this state and genuinely cares about ALL Texans.

  4. My sister who is 70 lives in Texas and I am terrified for her and her elderly husband. God help all of you!

    1. mi millYour sister is better off living in Texas. Texas has a population of 29 million with only 2296 deaths related to COVID. Are you from New York or something?

  5. The real definition of stupidity:

    When less than 600 people in the country controls 320-240 million. This speaks for itself.

    1. @Frank Johnson Thanks for googling that for us buddy. You still have not change my mind. I’d rather live in a county that has an electoral college rather than a country ruled by the popular vote.

    2. @Elmer Bruce Again you don’t read do you. I stated earlier I’m not here to change your mine – YOU ARE WHO WHO ARE. Please read before making yourself look like a fool.

    3. @Frank Johnson Lol dude I have to repeat myself to you. Thanks for wasting my time and teaching me absolutely nothing.

    4. @Philip Teague Lets not start something you don’t understand. When did I say I don’t want to live here. Please read the comments before making yourself look stupid. America has the good, the beautiful, the bad and the ugly. Pointing any of those things out doesn’t mean one doesn’t like America.

      Please read before making comments. Stating that the electoral college beginnings were racists calling for one black man to be only 3/5 of a human is fact. You wouldn’t care to know. You are who you are. I prefer to know the good, the beautiful, the bad, and the ugly in things to get the whole perspective.

      Again, read so at least you can make comments about something that was said.

  6. So Texas is seeing daily cases rise by an average of around 300 per day. And the governor ‘pauses’ reopening (a.k.a keeping things the way they are now).

    Texas will continue to see daily cases rise until Abbott has the courage to actually admit he messed up and do something about it. The more stubborn he is, the more screwed Texas will become!

    1. Or he could take the cowards way out and let the cities do their own thing. Abbott intervened and now we’ve got a mess. When the mayors were handling things, we were good. Either way, we need to do what’s best for ALL Texans.

    2. @w s Very tolerant of you. If there is anything to learn from COVID, is that conservatives handled COVID alot better than the BLM liberals who completely ignored social distancing.

    3. @Calvin Jase Deaths are going down nationally. Just like a few weeks ago cases were going down nationally.

      However in some states cases were going up, the deaths are starting to go up in these states now too.

      I understand testing has gradually been going up, but not by enough to explain the amount of cases. If you opened your eyes and actually did some research, you’d see that test positivity rate is going up, hospitalisations are going up. It is literally a matter of time before the death start to go up too. Stop being ignorant.

  7. Texas, Florida, Arizona, Georgia, Oklahoma, Arkansas, South Carolina.

    What’s happening to you right now, is the product of ignoring a scientist and listening to Trump!

    1. @Elmer Bruce
      Yet you are here.. You are the reason why the cases are going up.. Ignorant people like u who mock scientists and health experts. Continue doing what you’re doing… Natural selection will get ya boomer…

    2. @limits to infinity Lol I work from home and wear face masks in public. The only people I mock is people like you, who blindly follow the mainstream media. The only people causing cases to spike are the same ones who protested for BLM.

  8. Looks like the USA is gonna need those ventilators that you sent to other countries and said were a waste of money Trumpy.🤦‍♂️

  9. Lefties = we should give land back to natives , land doesn’t belong to anyone
    Normals = if land doesn’t belong to anyone then why does it matter who occupies it ?

    Lefties = we want open borders
    Normals = if it wasn’t for open borders white man wouldn’t of taken the land from native Indian

  10. I feel bad for Texans because they have such idiots running their states. Many will die, so sad.

    1. Yea thats for sure the 3 stooges Cruz, Cornyn & Abbott. Oh yea not mention dan patrick who wants old people to sacrifice themselves for the good of the country 🙄 . How bout them republicans!!!! F****** Trump followers.

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