'A cool dude': Republican bid to insult Beto O'Rourke on Twitter backfires

Party tried to take down O’Rourke, Senator Ted Cruz’s challenger, by sharing an old photo of him with his former band

Undecided voters in the suddenly surprisingly tight Senate race between incumbent Ted Cruz and his Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke were handed some potentially game-changing news earlier this week by the official Twitter account of the Republican party of Texas. In a series of what one can only assume were meant to be revelatory tweets, O’Rourke, the party pointed out, seems like a really cool dude.

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