I've heard a lot of noise about O'Rourke losing gettable voters by refusing to moderate, while Cruz loses voters due to his opportunism (flipping from opponent to supporter) surrounding Trump.
I wonder whether there's an effective strategy for the O'Rourke camp to spin this;
'Better to have principles that you can disagree rather than no principles at all.'
Play the Election of 1800 defense.
That noise is a very outdated view; O’Rourke wouldn’t have raised millions if he’d ran as a moderate who was constantly trying to find the middle view and changing his views.
The big buzzfeed piece on it explained it better than me; but it’s not like if a devout blue dog was running that the race would be any tighter- much like Abrams in Georgia, Beto needs to turn out record numbers of African-Americans and first time voters.
People who politicians who are authentic; the absolute worst thing for a democrat to be is an inauthentic moderate chasing a voter dreamt up by a political consultant.
Latinos are going to be Beto's key. AAs are important too, but Latinos are to Texas what African-Americans are to Georgia. Beto will need high turnout in the Mexican border counties just like Abrams needs high turnout in Metro ATL and the Black Belt counties.
