Democratic presidential candidate and former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke leaves the stage after speaking in April at the National Action Network Convention in New York.The Associated Press Last month in Manhattan, Beto O’Rourke held a private reception for supporters who had paid the maximum amount to his campaign or brought in as much as $25,000 by persuading others to do the same. It was the first such fundraiser of O’Rourke’s presidential bid — and a contrast from the early days of his campaign, when he emphasized that he had “no large-dollar fundraisers planned, and I don’t plan to ...