During an interview with Beto O’Rourke — whose energetic challenge against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in the midterms sparked 2020 speculation — Oprah Winfrey pressed O’Rourke to end the suspense already.
“If I can play some role in helping the country do that, by God, I’m going to do it,” O’Rourke said during the interview.
“Okay, by God, when are you going to know the answer?” she shot back, a swipe met with applause and laughter.
“The serious answer is, really soon,” he said, adding later that he would decide on 2020 before the end of the month.
O’Rourke has met with the likes of former President Barack Obama and has spent the last several weeks traveling around the U.S., further fueling conjecture.
Oprah to Beto on 2020: "By God, when are you going to know the answer?" pic.twitter.com/DB1QlC1jlN
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) February 6, 2019
He is utterly unqualified to be president. His major life accomplishment was to lose a Senate race to Ted Cruz, the most hated man in the Senate. And he accomplished that in a Democratic blue-wave election year and despite having twice the money that Cruz had.
But he is a very very wealthy white man, so there’s that. It gives him a good chance in the Electoral College, which was designed by the “Founding Fathers” to keep wealthy white men in power.
We can welcome Mr. O’Rourke back to the national stage in 2028 or something (hopefully when he’s two years into his Senate term or whatever). I think he missed the window on this one.
Warren has already crashed and burned; Klobuchar is getting ready to announce; Bernie is still lurking around the fringe of the Democratic Party.
We’re gonna need a bigger scorecard.
Brown, Biden, Sanders and Klobuchar haven’t announced yet. I really don’t see why Beto has missed the boat at this point when there’s still 4 other pending candidates that aren’t officially in the race
I really liked him, but this coyness about announcing is always a total turn off. I think his best bet would be some sort of cabinet position under president Harris…