The Democrat is recuperating at his home in El Paso, coming off the campaign trail with the November election two months away.
Texas Democratic candidate Beto O’Rourke speaks to a crowd of supporters at a campaign rally. Getty Images
“After feeling sick on Friday, I went to Methodist Hospital in San Antonio where I was diagnosed with a bacterial infection,” the former congressman and presidential candidate announced Sunday on his Twitter account, adding that he is taking antibiotics and has been ordered by doctors to rest.
“While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso as recommended by doctors,” O’Rourke said.
“I’m sorry I’ve had to postpone events because of this, but I promise to get back on the road with you as soon as I can,” the Lone Star State candidate said in a post that didn’t offer a timeline for when he would return. on the log.
The 39-year-old left a book signing in San Antonio early because of the illness, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported.
He also postponed rallies in San Antonio and Corpus Christi over the weekend.
The illness will also interrupt a 49-day O’Rourke tour that began in July with 70 events planned, as the campaign had intended to visit 65 counties.
O’Rourke, a former congressman who ran an unsuccessful 2018 campaign to defeat GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, is trying to block Abbott from winning a third term as governor.
The latest polls show Abbott leading by about 7 percentage points — up from double digits a few months ago.
While O’Rourke hammered Abbott over the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and gun control measures after the Uvalde mass shooting in May, the incumbent governor has been locked in a standoff with New York Mayor Eric Adams over the immigration. .
Beto O’Rourke is taking a break from campaigning due to a bacterial infection. Getty Images
Abbott, whose state has been overwhelmed by an influx of immigrants crossing the border under President Biden’s softer immigration policies, is sending busloads of immigrants to the Big Apple to make the point in Democratic-led cities.
The surge in immigrants arriving in New York is taxing city services that are already struggling to keep up with high numbers of homeless people.
City Hall has estimated that more than 6,000 asylum seekers have come to the city since May.
Adams has turned to the federal government for help amid the crisis as the city struggles to house the massive influx of immigrants, including at a hotel in Times Square.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas.
As busloads of migrants continue to enter the city from Texas, the situation has sparked a war of words between Abbott and Adams.
The Texas governor accused Adams of being a hypocrite and everyone is talking about his claims that New York is a sanctuary city when it is directly confronted with the sheer number of immigrants.
“Adams talked about being a sanctuary city — welcoming illegal immigrants to the Big Apple with warm hospitality. Talk is cheap. When pressed to deliver on such ill-advised policies, he wants to condemn whoever pressures him to walk,” Abbott wrote in an op-ed published last week in The Post.
City Hall responded by saying Abbott should consult a dictionary before making such accusations.
“Someone get this man a dictionary,” said the mayor’s spokesman Fabien Levy in a statement.”‘Hypocrisy’ claims you love America and then disapproves of the words on the Statue of Liberty.”
