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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020demprimary; beto2020; potus
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If Beto runs it might be a gender and race war on the Democratic side.
1 posted on 11/07/2018 8:09:00 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

BETO must win something to be even considered Presidential material.

He spent 3 times the money that Cruz spent and still lost.


2 posted on 11/07/2018 8:10:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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Yep, he’s a white man. In these days of Democrat identity politics, a heterosexual white male is at the bottom of the hierarchy.


3 posted on 11/07/2018 8:11:22 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: C19fan

Beto/Alexandria 2020! Cuter and dumber.


4 posted on 11/07/2018 8:11:37 AM PST by scottinoc
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To: C19fan

Spartacus will not let this happen.


5 posted on 11/07/2018 8:11:51 AM PST by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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To: C19fan

They are going to have to throw a bucket of water on HilLIARy to melt her for that to happen.

Pelosi and the dems running the house for the next 2 years increases the chances of her running again.

REMEMBER: The horrible economy over odumbass’s term started TWO YEARS EARLIER when pelosi took over as speaker.


6 posted on 11/07/2018 8:12:09 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: C19fan

JFK wannabe.


7 posted on 11/07/2018 8:12:32 AM PST by EdnaMode
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That sleazy piece of sh!t will self-immolate well before then.


8 posted on 11/07/2018 8:13:01 AM PST by tomkat
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Newsweek is trying to spin their hero’s loss as a good thing. I agree with them for once - every democrat loss this year was a great victory for America.


9 posted on 11/07/2018 8:13:09 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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Beta would not have come close if Cruz had stuck to being a good Senator from Texas.
His ambitions almost cost him his Senate seat.

Beat has no chance to be nominated in 2020.


10 posted on 11/07/2018 8:14:02 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

/giggle


11 posted on 11/07/2018 8:15:02 AM PST by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

He is also a transvestite.
That catapults him to the top in California and the northeast.


12 posted on 11/07/2018 8:15:29 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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Beto is married to a billionairess. She is a horrible leftard urging him on..


13 posted on 11/07/2018 8:17:01 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: EdnaMode

I always felt he was going for the RFK look.


14 posted on 11/07/2018 8:17:44 AM PST by BluegrassCardinal
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To: C19fan

Please. Please. Pretty please.


15 posted on 11/07/2018 8:17:46 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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Beto.......another “rising star” in the Rat Party. They got more “rising stars” then the Lord has in the milky way. Kamala, Brooks, Gavin, Garcetti, Beto, the guy on the corner. Funny to watch..........they are such children.


16 posted on 11/07/2018 8:18:08 AM PST by vespa300
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He has to wait his turn. He can’t cut in line ahead of candidates that actually win elections.


17 posted on 11/07/2018 8:19:14 AM PST by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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Beto F-Bomb O’Rourke for president? LOL!!!!


18 posted on 11/07/2018 8:20:28 AM PST by al_c (https://conventionofstates.com)
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Beta had big Hollywood money infusing into his war chest and outspent Beautiful Ted. Cruz overlooked Beta and if weren’t for DJT, Beta would have sprung the upset. Being competitive in a senate race against a sleepwalking candidate is not the same as running against Donald Magnimus in 2020.

But let Newsweek and other liberal loving media advance the Beta 2020 narrative.


19 posted on 11/07/2018 8:21:05 AM PST by BluegrassCardinal
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To: C19fan

...cuz being a LOSER makes you so much more viable as a canaidate.


20 posted on 11/07/2018 8:21:36 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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