RNC links ‘noted Irishman’ Beto O’Rourke’s heritage to 1998 DWI arrest

The Republican National Committee on Sunday sent out a tweet linking Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s Irish heritage to his 1998 drunken-driving arrest, in an attack that a scholar said raises questions about the party’s “use of stereotypes to wound potential opponents.” Republicans have previously sought to focus attention on O’Rourke’s DWI arrest, but […]