Beto To Restart Campaign, Skip Early States To Visit Places Impacted By Trump

EL PASO, TEXAS - AUGUST 04: Democratic presidential candidate and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke prepares to be interviewed outside Walmart near the scene of a mass shooting which left at least 20 people dead on August... EL PASO, TEXAS - AUGUST 04: Democratic presidential candidate and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke prepares to be interviewed outside Walmart near the scene of a mass shooting which left at least 20 people dead on August 4, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. A 21-year-old male suspect was taken into custody in the city which sits along the U.S.-Mexico border. At least 26 people were wounded. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) is restarting his 2020 presidential campaign Thursday after spending time in his hometown of El Paso in the wake of the mass shooting, and plans to unveil a change in tactic.

According to the New York Times, O’Rourke will invest less of his time in the early voting states — Iowa, New Hampshire — to instead make his campaign solely about combatting injustice born from President Donald Trump’s policies. He plans to make his first stop in Mississippi, where a massive ICE raid took place last week.

He said that he came to the new way of doing things after declining an invitation to the Iowa State Fair right after the El Paso massacre, saying that that kind of politicking didn’t match the “urgency” of the moment.

“I don’t know that I’ve been doing a good enough job to match that threat with the urgency and the honesty and the clarity that it deserves,” O’Rourke said of the danger poised by the Trump administration. “Being with those who have been denigrated and demeaned is more important than it has ever been.”

O’Rourke earned attention and plaudits from Democrats for his raw, emotional and often profanity-laden reaction to the shootings last weekend.

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  1. Avatar for schmed schmed says:

    Beto’s presidential campaign reminds me of a Richard Belzer joke about Keith Richards:

    “Hey Keith!”

    “Huuuhhh?”

    “Lie down!”

    “Whaaaa?”

    “You’re DEAD!”

  2. We need to take the senate, Beto. You can help. Run against that do-nothing jackass, Cornyn. Time is running out in a very real sense.

  3. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    He said that he came to the new way of doing things after declining an invitation to the Iowa State Fair right after the El Paso massacre, saying that that kind of politicking didn’t match the “urgency” of the moment.

    Oh my fucking god! He declined an invitation to the Iowa motherfucking State Fair! Oh the humanity! Where else can he jam a foot long hotdog down his gullet!

  4. Hopefully this is the start of Beto running for Senate. Does anyone know the TX deadline to file for the TX Senate race in 2020?

  5. Get ready for a restarted campaign consisting of a noun, a verb, and “El Paso.”

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