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.@BetoORourke is campaigning in Detroit, MI. Live quotes below 
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Standby - as it appears someone has fainted at the speech and an ambulance is being called.
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Prior to the fainting incident, Beto was talking about the threat of gerrymandering and how Texas was 50th in the country of voter turnout because of how people are drawn out of congressional districts.
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Beto is now literally standing on the counter at this coffee shop.
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I have to be honest --- Beto is talking so fast I can't even keep up in typing out what he says.
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Beto is back & taking questions from those in the crowd. First question is about North Korea. "I want President Trump to be successful in his negotiations... I want a peaceful resolution... his current path has been unsuccessful. How do we move forward? We have to work w/ China."
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Lots of questions from the African-American community on what Beto plans to do about the rise of white nationalism/hate. How can he make the country more inclusive? What will he do on gentrification?
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How will he help the Black trans community? "We're not asking for special rights, we're asking for human rights" says a black trans woman. "As President, I will sign into law the Equality Act..."
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"We lose 30K+ fellow Americans every year to gun violence... no other developed country on the plant comes close. We can either accept that... or understand this is a human-caused problem... so it has a human-caused solution."
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Beto calls for universal background checks & to "take the risk of using that firearm on themselves or someone else" away. "Weapons of war that were designed to the military for the... purpose of killing people... we should no longer sell weapons of war into our communities..."
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