Democrat 2020 Candidate Beto O'Rourke Wrote Fiction Piece About Running His Car Over Children

Beto O'Rourke is pictured with his old friend Carrie Campbell during the weekend of the Hackers on Planet Earth conference in New York in this 1997 handout photo obtained by Reuters on Feb. 22, 2019. Danny Dulai/Reuters

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke wrote a short story about running over two children because “they were happy” and “this happiness was mine by right.”

The revelation surfaced as part of a 3,300-word profile on O'Rourke published by Reuters on March 15.