Beto O’Rourke 2020 campaign megathread

[Pandaguineapig]

The irony is that Donald Trump might be the only major candidate for president whose ancestors did not own slaves

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

The irony is that Donald Trump might be the only major candidate for president whose ancestors did not own slaves

Xenophobic Republicans and slave-ownin' Dems. Sounds about right.

[Mr. Morden]

The irony is that Donald Trump might be the only major candidate for president whose ancestors did not own slaves

Everyone alive has ancestors who owned slaves (just like everyone alive has ancestors who *were* slaves), since slavery used to be common across the globe.  It's just a question of how far you want to go back in time.

[Sir Mohamed]

The irony is that Donald Trump might be the only major candidate for president whose ancestors did not own slaves

Everyone alive has ancestors who owned slaves (just like everyone alive has ancestors who *were* slaves), since slavery used to be common across the globe.  It's just a question of how far you want to go back in time.

100% of candidates have African roots.

[henster]

https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1150568879497916416

We really need a anti-PC Democrat who has the guts to say 'Who cares/So what' to stuff like this. It's so absurd he has to answer for stuff like this when he has no control over it.

Literally no one asked him to address this. He’s virtue signaling. Black people outside of the intelligentsia cohort on Twitter do not care...

He didn't do this unprompted he did to this as a pre-response to an article from the Guardian.

[Pandaguineapig]

All comments aside, anyone who thinks that there will actually be reparations is incredibly stupid, it really only exists as an issue to ignite the far-left base of the party.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1150862374523609089?s=20

[Da2017]

His campaign has to be the biggest joke.

[Mr. Smith]

His campaign has to be the biggest joke.

Indeed, if this were how 2018 went, he'd have lost to Cruz like it was the 2014 Senate Election and Cruz was John Cornyn.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

His campaign has to be the biggest joke.

Indeed, if this were how 2018 went, he'd have lost to Cruz like it was the 2014 Senate Election and Cruz was John Cornyn.

As a former Beto-backer, I don’t think the problem is him exactly. His past campaigns were so successful because he ran the way he wanted to: no pollsters, being honest and blunt. But this year he’s been running a textbook campaign. He listened to pundits and consultants who kept saying he had to run the way they’ve always seen campaigns run. If he tunes them out and goes with his gut the way he used to, he can tap into that same energy he had in 2018 and pull a McCain-level comeback.

[Pandaguineapig]

His campaign has to be the biggest joke.

Indeed, if this were how 2018 went, he'd have lost to Cruz like it was the 2014 Senate Election and Cruz was John Cornyn.

As a former Beto-backer, I don’t think the problem is him exactly. His past campaigns were so successful because he ran the way he wanted to: no pollsters, being honest and blunt. But this year he’s been running a textbook campaign. He listened to pundits and consultants who kept saying he had to run the way they’ve always seen campaigns run. If he tunes them out and goes with his gut the way he used to, he can tap into that same energy he had in 2018 and pull a McCain-level comeback.

No, it was more the fact that he had the entire national media prompting and hyping his campaign in 2018, now that they have other shiny objects they don't want to play with him anymore

[henster]

His campaign has to be the biggest joke.

Indeed, if this were how 2018 went, he'd have lost to Cruz like it was the 2014 Senate Election and Cruz was John Cornyn.

As a former Beto-backer, I don’t think the problem is him exactly. His past campaigns were so successful because he ran the way he wanted to: no pollsters, being honest and blunt. But this year he’s been running a textbook campaign. He listened to pundits and consultants who kept saying he had to run the way they’ve always seen campaigns run. If he tunes them out and goes with his gut the way he used to, he can tap into that same energy he had in 2018 and pull a McCain-level comeback.

No, it was more the fact that he had the entire national media prompting and hyping his campaign in 2018, now that they have other shiny objects they don't want to play with him anymore

His two mistakes were that he didn't launch in January when he had the absolute most buzz he even had Oprah's attention didn't even use that opportunity. The second mistake he made was launching and then just having a media blackout.

[Barack Oganja]

Admittingly, I was wrong about Beto. I thought he fit into the Clinton/Obama mold of a young, charismatic outsider that would be able to win voters new and old. I still think he had that potential, but is nowhere close to realizing it. I give his campaign a literal 0/10.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

The Fall is the time; candidates drop out, Klobuchar, Booker, Beto and Gillibrand need to dropout

[Blair]

I don’t think mistakes in his rollout really matter that much (Warren was seen as having an awful roll out)

It comes down to his complete lack of depth. He lacks a backstory, or any actual achievements; you can’t base a presidential campaign on a Senate Race.

His answers, and policy ideas lack depth too; his debate answers showed that he really doesn’t have a compelling case like Warren, Sanders, Harris or heck even Booker.

Very much becoming the Scott Walker of the race...

[John Dule]

Will Beto's health care plan cover the cancer I got after reading this tweet?

https://twitter.com/First_Dog_USA/status/1144067534372691968

[Dr. Arch]

Will Beto's health care plan cover the cancer I got after reading this tweet?

https://twitter.com/First_Dog_USA/status/1144067534372691968

Oh my goodness... 🤢

[Blue3]

His campaign is really going to the dogs

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

The policies that Democrats are rolling out like Reform Student Loan debt, public option for Health Insurance have already been modified by the Obama administration, which Biden was a part of.

Medicare for all, reparations and forgiveness of Student loan debt arent gonna go anywhere due to the unanimous consent, agreement in Senate and blue dogs, if elected, like Grissom wont break filibuster rules, due to 22T debt

[GoTfan]

I don’t think mistakes in his rollout really matter that much (Warren was seen as having an awful roll out)

It comes down to his complete lack of depth. He lacks a backstory, or any actual achievements; you can’t base a presidential campaign on a Senate Race.

His answers, and policy ideas lack depth too; his debate answers showed that he really doesn’t have a compelling case like Warren, Sanders, Harris or heck even Booker.

Very much becoming the Scott Walker of the race...

But I was told that his policies were the most comprehensive by far.

[brucejoel99]

You can tell a major presidential campaign has truly cratered when its Atlas megathread is unstickied.

[jacobmeteorite]

You can tell a major presidential campaign has truly cratered when its Atlas megathread is unstickied.

It’s truly shady and iconic.

[John Dule]

You can tell a major presidential campaign has truly cratered when its Atlas megathread is unstickied.

The real question is why it was stickied in the first place.

[brucejoel99]

You can tell a major presidential campaign has truly cratered when its Atlas megathread is unstickied.

The real question is why it was stickied in the first place.

"Something something the next Barack Obama" -- circa Winter 2018

[ksd2000]

You can tell a major presidential campaign has truly cratered when its Atlas megathread is unstickied.

Lol I remember when the forum was blowing up with threads like "Where will President O' Rourke put his presidential library?" the day he announced and I was facepalming.