Texas Democrat Beto O'Rourke may have been a media darling for months, but that shine is taking on some tarnish. A series of gaffes in recent days has O'Rourke apologizing. Among other things, he says he won’t swear anymore – and says it was wrong for him to make jokes about his wife raising their three children with his “occasional help.”
As the Texan has campaigned across Iowa late last week, he has made the joke several times, to the displeasure of activists and people in the Democratic party who claim it has sexist undertones. To that end, O'Rourke also addressed his "white privilege," which he said had benefited him in his youth.
A time of his life he also apologized for due to the discovery of his old violent fiction writing and time as part of a group of “activist hackers.” That subject came up when O'Rourke criticized President Trump's past responses towards racism and white supremacy. He’s also taken some heat for saying he was “born to run” for the presidency. "I have to look long and hard at my actions, at the language I have used,” he notes. “And I have to constantly try to do better.”
Source:CNN