Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke is drawing mixed reviews for interrupting a press conference Wednesday involving officials giving an update on the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre.
On Thursday’s “The View,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked her colleagues if they considered O’Rourke’s actions “political theatre.”
According to Fox News Digital, co-host Sara Haines asserted that “politics was theatre” and insinuated that O’Rourke was totally calm while the people he was addressing became nasty.
“Guns happen to be a big issue for Beto O’Rourke, and you even notice the optics. He calmly kept talking,” she continued, adding that those on the stage got “really nasty.”
“To hold a whole press conference about prayer and mourning the children, I’m guessing that grief is really quickly going to turn to anger if it hasn’t already, and they’re [Texans] going to want to see some action,” Haines said.
Sunny Hostin suggested that some of the politicians may have been angrier with O’Rourke than they were with the actual actions of the killer.
Meanwhile, right-leaning pundits are slamming O’Rourke for his actions. Syndicated radio host Clay Travis took exception to the gubernatorial candidate’s actions.
“That’s Beto, who still, to my knowledge, has not given any indication of what could have been done to keep this from happening,” he said.
