Beto has been hospitalized with an unnamed "bacterial infection" after feeling sick Friday.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Beto has had a grueling schedule of personal appearances all over the state. Beto stays after each of these events for pictures and to answer questions. I am not surprised that this schedule caught up with Beto

Beto will be in my prayers for a quick recovery

Link to tweet

[JohnSJ]

1. Nuts. I hope it isn't an e-Coli infection. Feel better Beto

[Meadowoak]

2. I don't trust the other side, and losing Texas would be game over

For the Republicans period. I hope he is careful and had lots of security.

[RKP5637]

3. Yeah, same here. I don't trust the GOP one bit, full of liars, cheaters and disreputable

people.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Same thoughts here.

[wnylib]

27. And here, too.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I tweeted: May he soon be well! The hopes of Texas ride with him. n/t

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. f u c k

[Liberal In Texas]

6. Crap. One of the hazards of going to all the podunk

towns and getting close to all those people.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Update from Beto

Link to tweet

[Poiuyt]

9. He doesn't really say how he's doing now, does he?

[Beautiful Disaster]

15. Yes. It's in another tweet.

Link to tweet

[Poiuyt]

20. Thanks!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. Yeah

[RKP5637]

11. Wonderful news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[malaise]

10. Get well quickly next Governor of

Texas

[FeelingBlue]

12. I hope

It really is a manageable bacterial infection and not some kind of nerve toxin from…oh, I don’t know…a nervous fascist?!?!

[blogslug]

13. I hope he makes a speedy recovery.

The man has been on the road, town after town for months. He was bound to pick up a bug.

[Boomerproud]

14. We love you Beto!

Keep fighting!

[Meowmee]

16. I hope he is in a dem hospital

Get better soon🤗

[BlackSkimmer]

17. There are "Dem" hospitals?

Who knew?

[Meowmee]

25. I was kidding 😹

But if you think people’s politics and beliefs don’t affect your care sometimes you are wrong.

[mcar]

18. Get well soon, sir

Your state and country need you.

[Mr.Bill]

19. If they released him to go home,

he probably isn't in any danger. Hope he recovers soon.

[SYFROYH]

21. He's got 72 days to bring it.

Get well soon, Beto.

[dalton99a]

22. Hope it wasn't something in his food or drink

from Abbott's thugs

[Buckeyeblue]

23. Sounds like a Putin play...I hope Beto has good security

[ShazzieB]

30. If this was Putin's doing, Beto would be dead by now.

Or at least in a coma. Whatever he's got was treatable with antibiotics, and he's resting at home now. No worries.

[Irish_Dem]

32. No that would be too obvious.

Putin is not stupid.

Like with Fetterman, knock him out of a big chunk of the campaign and make people have qualms about voting for him.

[ShazzieB]

33. He's not stupid, but he is known for having people killed with deadly nerve toxins.

Also, nowadays, docs run tests when they put someone on IV antibiotics. They may have started the drugs first as a precaution, but they would have tested to be sure it was a bacterial infection, because overuse of those drugs is such a major issue these days. They may have even identified the organism he is infected with and prescribed accordingly.

I subscribe to the law of parsimony (Occam's razor), which says that when there are alternative explanations of events, the simplest one is likely to be correct. Beto has been running around all over Texas, constantly being exposed to crowds of people, and likely not getting enough sleep or eating properly. Recent pics have shown him looking exhausted. Picking up some kind of infection along the way was almost inevitable, and he was likely not in the best shape to fight it effectively.

Besides, I'm not convinced that Putin would be all that interested or even aware of a state gubernatorial election, much less that he would attach enough significance to such an election to have someone poisoned.

[Irish_Dem]

35. Yes but Putin cannot start knocking off Dem politicians.

Even the naive American public would start to get suspicious.

Killing his Russian enemies is one thing, killing Dem politicians is another.

Yes of course, we know that Beto was cultured to see if bacteria were present and what kind.
You are not going to get IV antibiotics at the drop of the hat.

I think they would do a culture first because you have to know the kind of bacteria present in order to administer the correct antibiotic. But I suppose they could have started with a broad spectrum one if Beto was really sick.

Americans have been very foolish and naive to not fully understand what Trump/Putin/GOP are capable of.

I assure you that Putin and his intelligence agency FSB are very familiar with the nuances of American politics.
So is the GOP who are allies with Putin, they don't even hide it anymore.

Parsimony dictates facing reality with all the facts, even ones we don't like.

But yes I agree, your scenario is #1 explanation, Putin/GOP tricks is #2.

[dalton99a]

31. AFAIK Beto never hired security for his campaign.

All he had was whoever could fit in his vehicle, and local volunteers

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. From the Beto campaign

Link to tweet

[ashredux]

28. I don't wanna cause any issues, the first thing I thought of was The Abbott campaign...

I guess after Trump, I’m just paranoid

[maxsolomon]

34. Food poisoning is a bacterial infection.

It could be that mundane.

People are oddly coy about their diagnoses.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

36. Update

Link to tweet

[Hekate]

37. Thank you. I was beginning to feel uneasy without an update & am glad I found yours...

This country, let alone Texas, needs Beto!

[Lucinda]

38. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️