A mass text sent to Texas voters, which requested help with assisting illegal immigrant voters to the polls, was not authorized by the Beto O'Rourke campaign and came from an "imposter," his spokesman told The New York Times on Thursday.
"We are in search of volunteers to help transport undocumented immigrants to polling booths so that they will be able to vote," the message read, according to the report. "Would you be able to support this grassroots effort?"
While O'Rourke's spokesman confirmed the authenticity of the message to the Times, it was not sent by the campaign and "not a Beto volunteer," according to spokesman Chris Evans.
"That was not an approved message by the campaign," Evans told the Times.
O'Rourke, is the Democrat opposition this fall to incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who admits he too has received mass text messages from his opponent's comprehensive texting campaign.
"I know, I know, I've gotten three of them myself," Cruz told the Times of the O'Rourke campaign texts. "My dad has gotten five.
"By the third one I was thinking, 'maybe I should vote for him.'"
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