FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke addresses the nation in El Paso, Texas, U.S. August 15, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
(Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke unveiled a plan on Friday to classify white supremacist violence as an organised crime problem and to create federal domestic terrorism offices, in a bid to combat hate crimes and gun violence in the United States.
O'Rourke hits the campaign trail again after nearly two weeks in his home city of El Paso, Texas, where a white gunman targeting Hispanics killed 22 people in a Walmart store on Aug. 3.
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