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Washington Post: Obama met with Beto about running in 2020
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He's kind of a standard Dem — was a nondescript lawmaker in Congress, so it's hard to ascribe ANY ideology to him since he ran a largely non ideological campaign.
There's value in that — campaigns that make people feel like they're in a "movement" are very powerful (see: Obama, Trump) and often override any actual ideology.
I'm not really sure about Beto from an ideological POV because so much of how he ran his Senate campaign eschewed policy and ideology. That's not possible on a national stage so I'm sort of taking a wait and see approach. But I wouldn't really call him especially "centrist" based on his little time in Congress.
I voted for Sema in the primary but I def drummed up support for Beto at work. Truly wish he woulda won. Definitely helped turn out the vote in Texas for damn sure and did a lot of help in down ballot races.
Really wish he'd run again John Cornyn's seat.
Screw that. Purity testing will lead to a second Trump term.
In a statewide race, Trump is easier to beat than Cornyn, and when you look at where the marginal battleground races likely are in 2020 if it's Beto in the top position (Assuming you flip MI/PA easily, you need 1 of AZ, NC, WI, TX, FL to win with IA also on the map) it's really hard to not go for it because he could legit do it, and he's shown that he has the campaign management skills on the level that's required for a Pres run.
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Beto is not an attack dog and would be awful in that role. Beto does the optimism/positive movement thing ala Obama.
I think you can ascribe a centrist ideology to him. He decided to join the New Democrats Caucus which is all about the centrist, Third Way policies of the Clintons and has been waffling on single payer.
I think it's a solid choice. Harris/someone else ticket might be better though. For some reason both of them I don't feel like is a good ticket.
The fact that Beto came as close as he did in Texas of all stages is nothing to scoff at.
Yeah in the political shithole that is Texas. And even then he barely lost.
Barely and in Texas. Those are not insignificant factors.
Seems like many would say Beto is too centrist which is a problem I had with several stances Obama took as well. I'd like someone more progressive on the ticket (and preferably a woman).
Please don't support islamaphobic homophobes with Hindu nationalist ties
I know you are just bein silly
Nah, don't need a Trump apologist. Guy also has zero recognition anywhere and probably won't pick up enough steam by the time Super Tuesday rolls around.
Nice to know that you that will be around slinging mud again in the 2020 dem primary.
Thanks for spreading that lie about Beto's donations.I think Bernie would be able to retain most of his base.
Those are from individual donations from individual people, not corporations
Experience never mattered over charisma. See Obama versus McCain. Obama versus Romney. Obama versus Clinton. Trump versus entire GOP field in 2016. Trump versus, Clinton.
Those ideological caucuses are pretty flimsy. They don't really have strong whips, ESPECIALLY the New Dems.
I also don't know if "waffling on single payer" = "centrist" either. He's sort of your standard Dem. I would guess he's probably a little to the left of the caucus but I also am on my phone and cant check the DW NOMINATE score.
Beto is great and all, but I really don't want another male president in 2020. We need to make better progress than that in the next few years.
You arent getting single payer to 50% plus 1 in the House, let alone the Senate anyway.
Of donations exceeding $200.
https://www.opensecrets.org/industr... &cycle=2018&recipdetail=H&Mem=Y&sortorder=U
That's not really a fair comparison — first of all that's not the oil and gas "industry", that's individuals who work for oil and gas companies. That can be anything from execs who wrote a $2700 check to someone who works at a gas station or an oil rig.I think Bernie would be able to retain most of his base.
Also, Beto outraised everyone which means... he was the top receipiant of individual donations in almost every industry!
I don't think he's in the pocket of Big Dentist, but because his small dollar donations were so large, it looks like he is!
It's so fucking sad how the GOP cried like little bitches about how inexperienced Obama was and seeing them fall over themselves to how new Trump is when he made mistakes and missteps early on.
Not this Texan I voted for Beto, and he came pretty close to winning.
Barely in a state that's so Red it's Red. No Democrat, specially not one as Blue as Beto has come even 1/10th as close as he did.
He's not as liberal as I would like but he's a far more inspiring candidate than the other names that get thrown around
Sorry was meant as a jump off not a response. Its a point that just isnt actually relevant to governance.
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All small donations. He had no PAC. There was no "oil industry" money being thrown at Beto.
