Article snippet: PETERBOROUGH, N.H. — The crowds that once massed for him have dwindled, the rock-star energy has faded, and his standing in Democratic presidential primary polls has tumbled. But Beto O’Rourke is still out there, trying to recapture the magic by going back to his roots. In a grassy park in this western New Hampshire town last week, he was upbeat if humble as he focused on what he knows — immigration — and where he is from — a Texas border town — once more on the road in the kind of relentless, activist campaigning that first catapulted him to national fame. “Thank you for what you’re doing right now,” O’Rourke told about 150 people gathered July 12 at one of hundreds of vigils nationwide protesting the US treatment of migrants and immigrant detainees. “Especially for those people and those children who have no voice, who fear that they’re not being heard, who are strangers in a strange land . . . in many cases, imprisoned though they’ve committed no crime.” He released new fund-raising totals this week, and they were grim: just $3.6 million in the second quarter. That was well behind his top Democratic rivals and less than half of what O’Rourke raised in the first quarter when he had the look of a potential front-runner. He has enough cash — $5.2 million as of June 30 — to buy the time to try to figure out how to replicate the success of his near-upset victory in the 2018 Texas Senate race. But the clock is ticking. He’s in the low single digits in New Hampshire... Link to the full article to read more