O’Rourke to counter Trump rally

On Monday, President Donald Trump will hold his first campaign rally of the year at the El Paso County Coliseum, a Texas arena within a stone’s throw of the U.S.-Mexico border.

It won’t be the only highprofile event in El Paso that night.

Former congressman Beto O’Rourke, a Democrat, will appear at the “March for Truth” — at a high school a mile away from the coliseum — in the hopes of countering Mr. Trump’s anti-illegal immigration message.

Mr. O’Rourke, who has publicly mulled entering the 2020 presidential race, announced late Friday he would join El Paso residents in a “peaceful march” on Monday. Though he avoided calling Mr. Trump out by name, it was obvious the protest was intended to coincide with Mr. Trump’s “Make America Great Again” rally in El Paso on the same night.