Beto O’Rourke has hired Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, the deputy campaign manager of former President Barack Obama’s 2012 bid, to head his campaign in a clear move to professionalize the grassroots effort.
According to a Monday New York Time report, Dillon has worked as executive director of the DNC and on five presidential races.
Dillon told the Times that she was not planning to jump into the race this early, but was compelled to by O’Rourke’s message.
“His leadership, his energy, his belief that you don’t have to segment voters and that you can be a president for all voters,” she said. “People are searching for that.”
I say bring on all contenders
I have been so depressed these last few days. The mute button is worn out from silencing his camel brays about “exoneration”
Let’s find the strongest candidate to beat that orange pile of shit.
This must stop
O’Rourke is not helping the Democrats by running for President, a race he’ll never win. He should be running for Senate in Texas again, against John Cornyn, a race he could possibly win.
By running for President, he is giving up a potential Senate pick-up for the Democrats.
But he is setting himself up for a good career as a grifter. Kind of a Democratic Sarah Palin, except he is male, uber-wealthy, and lost his only statewide race.
A statewide race for a Democrat in Texas is still a very tall hill.
Agreed, but Beto has the best chance of any Texas Democrat at the moment. Plus, he has his pro-Republican pro-fossil fuel voting record to help him.
Winning a nationwide race for a statewide loser like Beto is an even taller hill.
I still don’t blame him for taking a shot at POTUS. Coming as close as he did in a statewide race in Texas in a midterm is one thing. Coming that close or winning in a statewide race in Texas in a Presidential election year is another thing altogether.