Trump On Beto: ‘He’s Got Very Little Going For Himself’ Except A ‘Great First Name’

EL PASO, TEXAS - FEBRUARY 11: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the El Paso County Coliseum on February 11, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. Trump continues his campaign for a wall to be built along the b... EL PASO, TEXAS - FEBRUARY 11: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the El Paso County Coliseum on February 11, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. Trump continues his campaign for a wall to be built along the border as the Democrats in Congress are asking for other border security measures. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump drew attention to Beto O’Rourke’s dueling rally across the street in El Paso Monday night, calling him a “young man with very little going for himself, except he’s got a great first name.”

Trump then, in classic fashion, mocked O’Rourke’s crowd size while inflating his own numbers and said baselessly that the former congressman’s decision to hold the rally “might be the end of his presidential bid.”

O’Rourke has said that he’s nearing a decision on a 2020 run.

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  1. Since Donald made it a size contest, whose was bigger, crowd I mean. Always surprising in some ways that, assuming he knows his is smaller, he makes this an issue. Does he really not know or is he like the emperor and his new clothes?

    https://twitter.com/search?q=Trump++Beto+crowd+size&ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^search

  2. And what has Trump going for himself? Maybe just lies.

  3. From a DailyKos article by Leslie Salzillo:

    Trump claimed he had a crowd of 35,000, and said O’Rourke had a couple hundred. But the El Paso Coliseum where Trump held his rally reportedly only holds 11,000. Bloomberg News reported that O’Rourke drew a crowd of 10,000 to 15,000 people.

    We will know more about the numbers on Tuesday. What we do know right now is that Trump’s a fucking liar, and Beto O’Rourke has just begun to kick his ass.

  4. “young man with very little going for himself, except he’s got a great first name.”

    …which is a helluva lot more than you’ve got, Donald, except for your ginormous ass.

  5. In addition, O’Rourke reflects the electorate of El Paso much more than Trump.

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