Beto O’Rourke 2020 campaign megathread

[Wisconsin SC Race 2019]

He needs to stand-down and stop taking votes from Bernie. The nerve of him being the John Edwards to Wall Street Kamala's 2008 Obama.

[Wisconsin SC Race 2019]

Beto has a lot of nerve doing this to Bernie. He knows he's not gonna win, but plays spoiler for Harris? Disgusting. 

[Wisconsin SC Race 2019]

He needs to stand-down and stop taking votes from Bernie. The nerve of him being the John Edwards to Wall Street Kamala's 2008 Obama.

wut?

He has the corner on a lot of Bernie's support, which will destroy both in favour of Wall Street Kamala.

[Wisconsin SC Race 2019]

Beto O'Rourke is an interesting candidate insofar as he exposes an important division among the left. Some of the left believes that their guiding principle should be the welfare of the little guy. Others believe that their guiding principle should be the works of Karl Marx.

...and it's apparent Beto's got neither.

[Wisconsin SC Race 2019]

If a 47% Chamber of Commerce rating isn't disqualifying enough for Dems, what is?

[Wisconsin SC Race 2019]

But Regarding the delay... To begin with- all of the current candidates had over a year to get ready to announce their campaign (decide to run... then have the infrastructure in place to hit the ground running in a National Campaign).  And most of those candidates delayed their announcement a lot longer than Beto if you consider when they began planning for such a National campaign.

So in addition to just the time it takes to set up a Presidential Campaign (to be able to hit the ground running)... Is the need to have a really impressive opening rally a potential reason for the delayed announcement... in that once he decided he was definitely running - it may take a little time to set up an opening that will live up to some of the large rally's Beto during the Senate campaign?

I don't think it's problematic at all for him to have delayed his announcement until this month or next month or whenever he wants to do it.  But ideally he should have gone about it like the other candidates did, which is to publicly pretend that he's still undecided up until the day that he makes his announcement.  The fact that he's said publicly that he's decided but won't tell us what the decision is yet looks rather silly, IMHO.  Not a big deal, just an example of him executing his rollout in a way that doesn't really make any sense, which might be a consequence of him being more of a newbie to the national stage than most of the other candidates.

Beto is acting like a frontrunner which he's not, maybe in January he would've been but not today. He's keeping people in suspense while many of his supporters are gravitating to other candidates. To the point where he has to spend the next few months clawing back what he lost.

This is not true. LOL. The moment he announces he will get more media coverage than everyone not named Harris or Sanders. I’m not sure where y’all are getting the hype has died down. He literally has an operation of folks ready to go the moment he announces. The only comparable online fervor for someone to enter the race was Sanders.

If he had all that massive support, why wait? He prolly thought he had a shot in a state-wide race, but got cold feet. 

[Wisconsin SC Race 2019]

Astroturf Beto is at it. Looks like being GOP-lite on Economics like Hillary is working out fine for him.

[Wisconsin SC Race 2019]

Beto is done, he didn't do any Town Halls, he just did campaigning. He needed more exposure than that.

People know who Beto is, for better or worse.