Senate candidate Rep. Beto O'Rourke Beto O'RourkeJimmy Carter says his son smoked pot with Willie Nelson on White House roof O'Rourke endorses Kennedy for Senate: 'A champion for the values we're most proud of' 2020 Democrats do convention Zoom call MORE (D-Texas) said he and his team are "not interested" in an endorsement from former President Obama at a town hall Thursday, according to the Texas Tribune.

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Obama announced his second wave of endorsements for the upcoming midterms on Monday, naming 260 candidates, 11 of whom were in Texas.

Although O'Rourke was not on the list, he did not seem fazed.

“I don’t think we’re interested [in an endorsement],” he said.

“I am so grateful to him for his service, he’s going to go down as one of the greatest presidents. And yet, this [election] is on Texas.”

When O'Rourke campaigned to defeat incumbent Rep. Silvestre Reyes in 2012, Obama and former President Bill Clinton William (Bill) Jefferson ClintonChelsea Clinton: Trump isn't building public confidence in a vaccine Hillary Clinton launching podcast this month GOP brushes back charges of hypocrisy in Supreme Court fight MORE endorsed his opponent. Beto pointed out that that did not work.

"Bill Clinton fills up the county coliseum and a screaming El Paso Times front page headline [said] 'President urges El Paso to stick with Reyes,'" he said. “And we won. And what that drove home for me is that someone else’s popularity is not transferrable to a given candidate.”

In a Hill.TV interview Tuesday, Democratic strategist Adam Hodge also said an endorsement wasn't necessary.

“Beto is not going to be helped by an Obama endorsement in Texas," he said. "Quite frankly, he’s got his own brand in Texas."

On the other side of the race, incumbent Senator Ted Cruz Rafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump argues full Supreme Court needed to settle potential election disputes Press: Notorious RBG vs Notorious GOP The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by Facebook - Washington on edge amid SCOTUS vacancy MORE (R) has welcomed Donald Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE's endorsement, and the president is set to hold a major rally for him sometime this month.