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If the Dems want to lose in 2020, Beto O'Rourke is the perfect candidate
By Maureen Callahan December 6, 2018
Nothing has been learned from Hillary Clinton, the two-time heiress apparent who, in 2016, had the support of nearly every mainstream media outlet, who entered the final stretch of her last race with a $449 million war chest (compared with Trump's $168 million), who led in nearly every national poll, and who was roundly depicted as the rational adult tolerating a villainous bozo.Just as Hillary has taken that humiliating defeat as a sign to mull yet a third run, O'Rourke has taken his loss to Ted Cruz -- the most loathed senator in modern American history, once called "Lucifer in the flesh" by then-House Speaker John Boehner -- as a sign that he, a 46-year-old three-term congressman with a thin record, is the one to defeat Trump.
"We've spent the better part of the last two years not with each other, missing birthdays and anniversaries and time together. Our family could not survive more of that," he said, adding that as far as a 2020 presidential run was concerned, "I'm completely ruling that out. I'm not going to do that. Win or lose, I'm not running in 2020."
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Beto Lands Big Obama Fundraiser
(CNN) One of the Democratic Party's most prolific fundraisers says he has pledged to raise campaign money for rising political star Beto O'Rourke should the Texas Democrat seek the presidency in 2020.Chicago financier Louis Susman, who served as finance chairman of John Kerry's 2004 presidential bid and was an early backer of President Barack Obama's White House ambitions in 2008, told CNN in a telephone interview he has met with O'Rourke on a number of occasions and that he is encouraging him to run.
"It's time to pass the torch to a new generation," said Susman, a former US Ambassador to United Kingdom in the Obama administration. "I have nothing against the Bidens and Kerrys of the world and all of these senators that are looking at it, but I think the Beto example is what inspired people and what we are going to need."
A CNN analysis shows O'Rourke has won the attention of some of Obama's biggest financial backers. At least 59 individuals who raised $500,000 or more for Obama's re-election in 2012 donated to O'Rourke's 2018 campaign, CNN's tally finds. That surpasses the number of top bundlers who contributed to the federal fundraising vehicles established in this election cycle by other Democrats who have either declared their 2020 intentions or are pondering bids.
For instance, only about two dozen people in the highest echelon of Obama bundlers had written checks to a fundraising committee, American Possibilities PAC, established by Biden to support other Democrats in the midterms, according to the review of donations reported to the Federal Election Commission through early this week.
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The Democratic establishment is trying very hard to make Beto 2020 happen
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