Posted on 11/04/2019 6:09:49 AM PST by MarvinStinson
At the end of this week, former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke (D) formally announced he was dropping out of the Democratic primary race after pledging to take all our guns and punish churches for not condoning gay marriage.
According to campaign finance records, O’Rourke spent 14 million on his campaign, with clearly nothing to show for it!
Campaign finance reports issued on September 30 showed that O’Rourke spent $13,965,478, according to Open Secrets.
While final numbers for his campaign have yet to be released, he likely surpassed $14 million in money spent int he 30 days following his last report, Breitbart notes.
Beto kicked off his campaign with quite a lot of attention and raised $6.1 million in the first 24 hours, but this early success faded as other candidates came forward and proved to be more popular.
“Though it is difficult to accept, it is clear to me now that this campaign does not have the means to move forward successfully,” O’Rourke announced on Friday night in the official announcement that his campaign was ended.
President Trump couldn’t help but poke fun at O’Rourke’s announcement during a campaign rally on Friday.
“Oh did you hear? Beto, ah, that poor bastard, poor pathetic guy,” Trump said. “He was pathetic.”
“He quit like a dog,” Trump said. “When he quit, I said, ‘See? People think this is easy, it’s not so easy.’”
“He said that he was born for it right?” Trump asked, referring to Beto’s early interview with Vanity Fair. “He was born from heaven and came down and, in that case, some really, really bad things happened, because he made a fool out himself.”
“Remember the arms flailing?” he continued. “He was standing on tables, he was standing on countertops, I said, ‘Does [he] never like stand on the floor and speak? … What the hell is he doing? What is he on?’”
Trump said that O’Rourke had been “nasty” during the campaign, pointing to O’Rourke’s enthusiastic opposition to the Second Amendment, Christianity, and oil production.
“You come from Texas, you don’t like religion, you don’t like oil, and you don’t have guns, I don’t know, that’s not a good combination in the state of Texas … I don’t know if that’s good anywhere,” he said as the crowd cheered.
Very good.
A good analysis in your post, generally. But I don't think there was any "decree". The power in the Democrat part seems pretty splintered, so it was more of a consensus of opportunity than a decree, in my opinion.
The Clintons did a great deal to centralize the Democrat party power, but they are out of power now...
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