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Mar 11, 2019 · Trish Long. El Paso Times. 0:00. 2:13. Beto O'Rourke's full name is Robert Francis O'Rourke. But his family and friends have always called him "Beto." He was named after his...
- Trish Long
- Reporter/Data Expert
Aug 12, 2019 · According to the Dallas Morning News, a quite prescient senior O’Rourke once explained why he had given the shortened form of the Spanish “Roberto” to his son as a nickname. And he seemed to...
Jun 27, 2019 · Metro explains that Beto is a common nickname in Spanish for Robert or Roberto, and “O’Rourke acquired the nickname as a toddler.”. He was growing up in a community with a 75 percent Latino ...
Mar 7, 2018 · The origin of O’Rourke’s Hispanic-sounding first name has been captured in almost every profile of the rising Democrat: “Beto” is a childhood nickname that stuck. And ironically, when it...
- Tara Golshan
- March 1, 2018
- Ted Cruz — Rafael Edward Cruz
- Mitch Mcconnell — Addison Mitchell Mcconnell, Jr.
- Mitt Romney — Willard Mitt Romney
That's right — the Texas senator who narrowly defeated O'Rourke last year isn't using his real name either. Ted Cruz was born Rafael Edward Cruz — in Canada, no less. Politifactpoints out that in his autobiography, "A Time for Truth," Cruz said he stopped going by Rafael in junior high school. He said he first went by a different nickname, Felito, ...
The man who leads the Senate is doing so with a nickname. Mitch McConnell was given his father's name, Addison Mitchell McConnell, when he was born in Alabama in 1942. He has apparently gone by Mitch for nearly his entire life. A high school yearbook photo lists his nickname as "Mitch." It also says "Mooch" — but in the Trump administration, that n...
The Utah senator — who was the GOP's nominee for president in 2012 — said he has been going by his middle name since kindergarten. Romney's father was a close friend of J. Willard Marriott, the founder of the Marriott Hotel chain, and that's where his given name comes from. In an interview with CSPANin 2006, Romney told a story similar to Cruz's, s...
- CBS News
- 5 min
Beto O'Rourke. Robert Francis " Beto " O'Rourke ( / ˈbɛtoʊ / BEH-toh, also / ˈbɛdoʊ / BED-oh; Spanish pronunciation: ['beto]; born September 26, 1972) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 16th congressional district from 2013 to 2019.
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Aug 31, 2018 · In March, the campaign of O'Rourke's Republican opponent, Ted Cruz, launched a radio jingle that poked fun at the name "Beto" and included the following lyrics: "I remember reading...
