From Politico (https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/15/beto-orourke-2020-1172360):
Beto O’Rourke in talks with strategists ahead of likely 2020 bid (02/15/2019 05:21 PM EST)
Beto O’Rourke is in talks with Democratic strategists about a likely 2020 presidential run, according to two sources.
Two Democratic campaign strategists told POLITICO on Friday that they are in discussions with O’Rourke and his team. One of the strategists described those conversations as moving to “an operational level” after weeks of discussing 2020 in more theoretical terms.
A source close to O’Rourke said Friday that the former Texas congressman is still considering a run and has not yet made a final decision.
O’Rourke’s advisers had been speaking with Democratic strategists for months about a potential campaign, but only at a relatively abstract level. O’Rourke said last month that any discussions that his former advisers were having with potential operatives were not at his direction.
But after a massive rally in his hometown of El Paso this week, O’Rourke is now becoming personally involved in discussions about the shape of a 2020 campaign, the strategists said.
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On Monday, O’Rourke drew thousands of supporters to the march and rally in El Paso to protest President Donald Trump’s call for funding a border wall. He appeared Thursday on MSNBC to discuss border politics. And on Friday, O’Rourke used his Senate campaign account to email supporters a preview of his recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, which airs on Saturday.
Meanwhile, O’Rourke is traveling in the Midwest. He is expected to visit privately with students at University of Wisconsin, Madison today, before speaking Saturday at a national conference of the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute.
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…O’Rourke controls a potent email list from which to raise money, and many Democratic strategists held off committing to a 2020 contender until O’Rourke decided whether to run.
He’s got my money.
And my efforts if he needs them in the NYC area.
You?
No?
Tell me why not, please.
Really.
I don’t want to argue with you; just understand.
Do you really think that he couldn’t win an election with the unprecedentedly various levels of support that he would get? Be a big coattails winner as well? A combination of the youth vote and the Hispanic vote alone…along with the regular Dem base…would put him way over the top as far as I’m concerned.
Or…do you think that he wouldn’t be a very good president.
Or…do you want to try the whole neoliberal/neoconservative mishegoss one more time once, in the fervent hope that this time the “good guys”…whoever you think they are…will finally win?
I don’t.
Get back to me.
Please.
Thank you…
AG
P.S. Huffpost U.S. (https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/02/15/beto-orourke-id-take-the-wall-down/23670633/) (Emphases mine):
Beto O’Rourke: ‘I’d take the wall down’
Potential 2020 presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke said if it were up to him, there would be no border wall in El Paso, Texas.
O’Rourke, a Democratic former Texas congressman and candidate for Senate, responded in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Thursday to a question tweeted by Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), who asked whether O’Rourke would make the city’s border wall disappear if he could.
“Absolutely,” O’Rourke said without hesitation.
“I’d take the wall down,” O’Rourke said, adding that the barrier has “not in any demonstrable way made us safer.”
O’Rourke said the existing wall “has pushed migrants and asylum seekers and refugees to the most inhospitable, the most hostile stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border ensuring their suffering and death.”
O’Rourke, a fierce opponent of President Donald Trump’s fear-mongering on immigration, vehemently opposes Trump’s plan to declare a national emergency to build his promised border wall after failing to gain congressional approval.
“It’s hard to make a rational case for an emergency declaration or troops on the border or any amount of additional border wall or border fencing or steel slats,” O’Rourke said.
Do you know how many potential voters there are in the U.S. that identify as “Hispanic” and/or “Latino?”
I do.
You should too, if you want to see a Dem landslide in 2020.
Pew Research Center. (http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/10/14/key-facts-about-the-latino-vote-in-2016/):
Significant growth in the number of Latino eligible voters has helped make the U.S. electorate more racially and ethnically diverse than ever this year. According to Pew Research Center projections, a record 27.3 million Latinos are eligible to cast ballots, representing 12% of all eligible voters.
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Do you know where they live?
I know that, too.
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino_vote#Voting_demographics):
States with the most share of eligible Latino voters in 2016 were: New Mexico (40.4%), Texas (28.1%), California (28.0%), Arizona (21.5%), Florida (18.1%), Nevada (17.2%), Colorado (14.5%), and New York (13.8%)
I repeat!!!
Florida
Texas
Arizona
Nevada
Colorado
All either “Lean Republican” or “Competitive” according to Gallup. (https://news.gallup.com/poll/188969/red-states-outnumber-blue-first-time-gallup-tracking.aspx)
HMMMMMmmmm…!!!
‘Nuf said.
I hope.
P.P.S. The DNC-allied, McCarthyite trolls have once again zeroed out a comment that I posted.
No matter…it was only a sort of form letter that I have been using rather than tussling with their truly amazing dishonesties. For those readers who might not have seen it, here it is again:
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A group…or perhaps better, a cadre…of people on this site have tried everything in their power to discourage criticism of the Democratic Party as it stands today. They automatically downrate such posts and have endlessly attacked several posters as liars, fools, pro-Trump trolls and/or spreaders of Russian propaganda. When effectively rebutted, they simply ignore the rebuttal and repeat the same attacks. These McCarthyite tactics are intended to exhaust the patience of the attacked posters and discourage others from reading or posting similar material. It has worked on a few posters, who have simply given up. It has not worked on me. I initially answered their attacks with attempts at reason. After realizing that this was a total waste of time, I have pretty much stopped replying to them. My comments and articles on this site are my replies. Read what I have to say; consider what they have to say and how it is said, and then make up your own minds. Thank you-AG
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