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Since 2018, O'Rourke has lost bids for the U.S. Senate, the presidency, and most recently, to serve as governor of Texas.
How else do we explain why a story on the former El Paso congressman and recently vanquished challenger to Gov. Greg Abbott taking a job as a lecturer at the University of Chicago got the most views of any of the Current's content this week?
Whatever your feelings about O'Rourke, he apparently is still able to make news. Which could bode well for his ability to fundraise and for his future political aspirations, assuming he can find an attainable office for which to run.
Aside from Beto, readers also showed their sense of humor by checking out a story about a Texas man with an unusual offer to beat "egg-flation" on the grocery aisles and their awareness that COVID isn't over by reading up on the "Kraken" variant being detected in the Alamo City.
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1. High-profile Texas Democrat O'Rourke entering academia after three failed political campaigns
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