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Beto O’Rourke For President In 2020? Defeat To Ted Cruz Increases Odds Of Run Against Donald Trump
Newsweek ^ | November 6, 2018 | Jason Le Maire

Posted on 11/07/2018 8:09:00 AM PST by C19fan

Beto O’Rourke fell agonizingly short of becoming the first Democrat in a quarter of a century to win a statewide race in Texas but he may yet get a shot at an even bigger prize. O’Rourke, who was projected to lose to Republican incumbent Ted Cruz on Tuesday, had vowed that he would serve out his full six-year term in the Senate if victorious and would not run for president in 2020.

But a defeat frees him of those obligations. And given how close he got to unseating a Republican in the ruby-ed Lone Star State, he is sure to face loud calls from Democrats to run for the party’s nomination for the White House. Indeed, those cries had begun even before the results in the race were final on Tuesday.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020demprimary; beto2020; potus
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To: C19fan

If Beto runs it might be a gender and race war on the Democratic side.


He raises money like the kenyan. It will be a short war. Like Six Day War short. Gillum on the bottom of the Dem ticket solves the race “problem”.


21 posted on 11/07/2018 8:21:36 AM PST by lodi90
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To: BluegrassCardinal

Yeah he looks a lot like him.


22 posted on 11/07/2018 8:22:53 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: C19fan

“might be a gender and race war on the Democratic side.”

Dem Rule number one: being pro abortion overrules every other rule


23 posted on 11/07/2018 8:23:20 AM PST by stanne
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To: DallasBiff

Spartacus will not let this happen.


Spartacus is going to have beltway stink all over him. Beto, by losing, won’t. He’s be free to campaign and fundraise non stop before the Dim primaries.


24 posted on 11/07/2018 8:24:50 AM PST by lodi90
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To: scottinoc

Alexandria is too young to be on the ticket in 2020...but he better run before she turns 35.


25 posted on 11/07/2018 8:26:04 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: SeekAndFind
He spent 3 times the money that Cruz spent and still lost.

He spent far more money than ANY US Senate candidate in history and still lost.
Read this from Twitchy. O’Rourke got only 200,000 votes more than Paul Saddler did in 2012 against Ted Cruz, and Sadler only raised $700,000.

US Senate for Texas

2012, Paul Sadler
Raised: $705,027
Votes: 3,194,927
$/Vote: $0.22 each

2018, Beto O'Rourke
Raised: $69,240,350+
Votes (11:33pm ET): 3,413,259+
$/Vote: $20.29 each

Allllllll that money for just 200K+ more votes?

— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 7, 2018

26 posted on 11/07/2018 8:27:35 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: al_c

He can steal Biden’s slogan: “Cuz THIS is a big F’ing deal!”


27 posted on 11/07/2018 8:28:50 AM PST by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: C19fan

I think the big money Dems will shy away from Beto in the near future:

1. Cruz ran a listless campaign until near the end, and he is not that popular among Texas Republicans now, for obvious reasons. He got about 400,000 fewer votes than Abbott did in the governor’s race. Beto had the national media shilling for him and a ton of money (see below). This was Beto’s best chance to win.

2. Dems threw about 70 million into the Beto fire this time. That will be remembered during the next two years.


28 posted on 11/07/2018 8:31:34 AM PST by riverdawg
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To: SmokingJoe

“Allllllll that money for just 200K+ more votes?”

This is absolutely true. But the thing to be concerned about is that the Democrats have an almost endless supply of FAR LEFT billionaires who are willing to keep upping the dollars spent (fascism is the preferred economic structure of very large, powerful companies, it limits competition greatly). And they are getting very close to flipping even more red states to blue with that money. They won’t stop here. In 2020, those billionaires will at least double (perhaps even more) the amount of money that they are willing to spend to buy a globalist America. They have an endless supply of money from the uber-wealthy. Endless.

Eventually, it does overwhelm the opposition.


29 posted on 11/07/2018 8:32:27 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: vespa300

A rising star who has never held elected office? How does one get that title bestowed upon themselves?


30 posted on 11/07/2018 8:33:35 AM PST by outpostinmass2
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Stop calling him Beto...that is not his name


31 posted on 11/07/2018 8:35:32 AM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Democrats have an almost endless supply of FAR LEFT billionaires who are willing to keep upping the dollars spent


Time to buy a radio station.


32 posted on 11/07/2018 8:35:33 AM PST by outpostinmass2
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To: C19fan

Robert Francis (aka; Beto) would be better off moving to Kalifornia and running against Kamala Harris for her Senate seat in 2020 and then set himself up for a run again Pence in 2024...


33 posted on 11/07/2018 8:35:59 AM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: C19fan

“Proven Loser!”

Yeah, ok, so run people that have experience losing...


34 posted on 11/07/2018 8:38:02 AM PST by Professional
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To: C19fan

Maybe he can skateboard his way into the White House.


35 posted on 11/07/2018 8:38:06 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: C19fan

“Beto”? I think he culturally appropriated that name from noble Hispanic peoples. But it’s close to what his name should be, considering he is a Soviet Communist wannabe. I think his Communist nickname is probably close to what his fellow students must have called him in high school: Comrade Betov.


36 posted on 11/07/2018 8:59:51 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: riverdawg

He got about 400,000 fewer votes than Abbott did in the governor’s race.
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Those people did not vote for Beta.
They left that spot on their ballot blank.


37 posted on 11/07/2018 9:03:17 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: outpostinmass2

He’s a Congressman from El Paso.


38 posted on 11/07/2018 9:04:28 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: harpu

If he was smart, he’d run against Cornyn in 2020.


39 posted on 11/07/2018 9:06:40 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: C19fan

I read Francis said he will not run in 2020 for President. This was after he found out he lost to Cruz.

Yes, people change their minds, but I have to wonder if he spent all that campaign money and what he plans on doing with what wasn’t spent.

I’ve never seen this guy speak but I get the drift he’s charming and persuasive in front of a crowd or camera. Those are excellent qualities in a pol but he also needs to come across as genuine and honest which he most certainly does not. He is a proven liar.


40 posted on 11/07/2018 9:11:00 AM PST by Boomer (Don't mistake my gentle nature for weakness.)
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