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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In a world where a reality TV star is President, the charismatic telegenic Beto might be the Democrat's best bet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/09/us/politics/beto-2020-presidential-race.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
[quote] The 2020 Democratic presidential primary, already expected to be the party’s most wide open in decades, has been jostled on the eve of many long-plotted campaign announcements by a political threat that few contenders bothered considering until recently:

Will a soon-to-be-former congressman, with an unremarkable legislative record and a Senate campaign loss, upend their best-laid plans?

Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas has emerged as the wild card of the [b]presidential campaign-in-waiting for a Democratic Party that lacks a clear 2020 front-runner[/b]. After a star-making turn in his close race against Senator Ted Cruz, Mr. O’Rourke is increasingly serious about a 2020 run — a development that is rousing activists in early-voting states, leading veterans of former President Barack Obama’s political operation (and Mr. Obama himself) to offer their counsel and hampering would-be rivals who are scrambling to lock down influential supporters and strategists as future campaign staff.

Advisers to other prospective Democratic candidates for 2020 acknowledge that Mr. O’Rourke is worthy of their concern. His record-setting success with small donors would test the grass-roots strength of progressives like Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont. His sometimes saccharine call to summon the nation’s better angels would compete with the likely pitch of Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey.

And his appeal to some former Obama advisers — and, potentially, his electoral coalition of young people, women and often infrequent voters — could complicate a possible run for former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who would aim to win back many of his former boss’s constituencies.[/quote][/quote]

Americas most trusted politician, a guy who came very close to beating a candidate a quarter century in the making, who to boot, had a massive $$$ and infrastructure advantage, isn't the presumptive front runner? Especially when that guy was adding voters to the Dems high HHI base? Sounds like Arthur Salzburger the 50th and Carlos Slim and other plutocrats are afraid of someone, someone who's surname begins with a "S".

And Beto O'Rourke? That's the guy who was hyped beyond belief yet lost to the Senate's biggest a-hole? What's he supposed to do in 2020 again?[/quote]

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