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RUNNING WITH BETO
May 28, 2019  | By David Bianculli

HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

This new documentary takes to the campaign trail with Beto O’Rourke – but it’s not the trail you might expect. Instead of covering his current run hoping to capture the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, Running with Beto takes place during the 2018 midterms, when the young congressperson came within a few hundred thousand votes of unseating Republican incumbent Ted Cruz in the U.S. Senate race in Texas. Why focus on that race now, when O’Rourke’s subsequent political ambitions and moves have generated so much interest? Perhaps HBO’s motto, when it comes to documentary political coverage, is: Beto late than never…

 
 
 
 
 
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