rich 1.0 Beto O'Rourke, the Texas Democrat who narrowly lost a U.S. Senate election to Ted Cruz in November, announced he was running for President in a video posted online on Thursday. "I'm running to serve you as the next President of the United States of America," he said. On the same day, O'Rourke embarked on a road trip across Iowa — an early and important caucus state — spanning three days and more than a dozen counties. TIME's Top Stories https://audioboom.com/channels/3380207-time-s-top-stories Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/34523415/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/7201961/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>