Source: Politics<\/p>\n
Beto O’Rourke, Texas’ Democratic candidate for governor, will “postpone events” after being hospitalized with a bacterial infection, he wrote Sunday on Twitter. <\/p>\n
“While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors’ recommendations,” O’Rourke said<\/a>. He has been discharged from the hospital, campaign communications director Chris Evans said Sunday. <\/p>\n The former member of Congress was hospitalized at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio after feeling sick on Friday, he wrote. He was diagnosed with a bacterial infection and received care including IV antibiotics, according to the tweet. <\/p>\n He said he would “be back on the road with you as soon as I am able.” <\/p>\n O’Rourke, who served three terms in Congress, rose to prominence nationally with his unsuccessful run for Senate in 2018. He also ran for president in 2020. <\/p>\n He has frequently clashed with his Republican gubernatorial rival, current Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, including a face-to-face confrontation<\/a> at a press conference following the May school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. <\/p>\n