Beto O’Rourke, the youthful Texan who gained a national following with his long-...
- Beto O’Rourke, the youthful Texan who gained a national following with his long-shot election battle against U.S. Senator Ted Cruz last year, on Thursday launched a bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
Greeted by cheers at his first stop in Keokuk, Iowa, he told his audience, “It is a huge, huge honor to be here with you.” Early opinion polls on the 2020 race have consistently ranked O’Rourke in the top tier of contenders, behind former Vice President Joe Biden, who has not yet announced whether he is running, and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
In El Paso, Trump ridiculed O’Rourke as “a young man who’s got very little going for himself, except he’s got a great first name.”The Iowa trip will be the first test of whether O’Rourke can take the pop-star appeal he showed in Texas last year to the national stage. Building a national presidential operation, however, is a different matter. O’Rourke will need those same donors to flock to him in a way that makes him competitive with other well-funded candidates, including other grassroots stars such as Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
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