Texas Dems need to run someone who is tough but fair on immigration and someone who is not gaffe prone...
The gun thing was O'Rourke's only "gaffe" in about 3 years if IIRC....
It's a pretty big one for running in Texas though.
and it was over a year and half ago.
Americans do indeed have short-term memories, but the Republican Party doesn't and will use that against him. Guaranteed. And it may be enough for him to not have a chance at all.
People in the liberal bubble don't understand how much the gun issue has hurt them outside of the cities and some of the suburbs. It's not just Republicans, either. I know at least three Hillary 2016 and then Biden 2020 voters that said they liked Beto initially but were turned away by his gun comment.
Even aside from the gun comment, Beto's 2020 presidential run should go down in history as one of the most politically suicidal campaigns in American history. He had such promise both in the state of Texas and as an antidote to a lot of the coastal progressives in the Democratic Party, but he tossed all of it down the drain. It's pretty sad.
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