Beto O'Rourke campaigns with his wife in effort to improve his standing with female voters
1 / 2Election 2020 Beto O'RourkeDemocratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks during the I Will Vote Fundraising Gala Thursday, June 6, 2019, in Atlanta. DES MOINES, Iowa — Beto O'Rourke stumbled with women from the start, featuring his wife sitting silently in his presidential campaign launch video and joking repeatedly about being a part-time parent.
"Any perceived entitlement by a young white male candidate did disqualify him with some young women activists," Judy Downs, executive director of the Des Moines-area Polk County Democratic Party, said of O'Rourke. Downs remains undecided in the party's 2020 primary but added,"In a field where we have 24 qualified candidates, that kind of small-level of gaffe can be enough to cut someone off the list.
Iowa state Sen. Clarie Celsi remains undecided in the primary but said O'Rourke's parenting quip was a"deal breaker for me," despite his quickly apologizing and abandoning it during the campaign's opening days. "We're better when Amy talks. We're better when she's talking, be it in a video, on stage or in Beto's ear," said Kim Olson, a friend of the O'Rourkes who campaigned unsuccessfully for Texas agriculture commissioner last year and is now running for Congress in a district between Fort Worth and Dallas.
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