At a premiere of an HBO documentary, Beto O’Rourke’s campaign comes to life in a darkened theater, for better and worse
By Jenna Johnson Jenna Johnson National political correspondent covering campaigns and voters Email Bio Follow March 9 at 7:22 PM AUSTIN — As soon as the lights fell for the Saturday premiere of the HBO documentary “Running with Beto,” former congressman Beto O’Rourke sneaked into the darkened movie theater with his wife and daughter.
O’Rourke gave the documentary crew full access to his family and several campaign staffers for more than a year, allowing them to gather 700 hours of footage. O’Rourke said he trusted the filmmakers to be respectful of his family and that the team was “genuinely interested in telling our story, we could feel that.”
“I’m ready for it to be over,” his oldest son Ulysses, then 11, said late in the campaign when both of his parents were away from home several days a week.“I’m having a super hard time right now,” O’Rourke said at one point, driving himself to a campaign event. “To have like the Wall Street Journal reporter asking me 50 questions in an hour to then, right away, sit down in front of the NPR reporter and dance for a little while in front of him.
Two years later, she had a change of heart. O’Rourke was elected to the House of Representatives three times, then was motivated by the election of President Trump to run for Senate — a decision that Amy O’Rourke said was “easy” to make.
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