New 'Draft Beto' group launches to rally support for 2020 bid

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

A group of Democratic activists and progressive “social media influencers” will launch a “Draft Beto” campaign on Tuesday, a source involved with the effort told POLITICO.

The group will focus its efforts on raising $1 million for a future presidential campaign for Beto O’Rourke, the Texas congressman whose 2018 Senate campaign against Republican Ted Cruz captured Democratic imaginations. Organizers set up an ActBlue escrow account that would immediately transfer all the money raised if and when O’Rourke announces a presidential campaign next year.

The campaign marks the second draft effort to launch in the weeks after the November election, where O’Rourke lost narrowly to Cruz but raised over $80 million. The other, Draft Beto 2020, rallied a few dozen supporters in the important presidential primary state of New Hampshire this past weekend with a video also released on Tuesday.

The new group has committed to transfer its email list, social media accounts, and volunteer roster to any presidential campaign, although O’Rourke already has one of the most valuable email lists in American politics.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/18/draft-beto-group-2020-bid-1067927

[msongs]

1. more fake news from politico nt

[brooklynite]

2. CNN: "New PAC hopes to draft Beto O'Rourke for 2020 run"

Washington (CNN)Some New England Democrats think Beto O'Rourke is Democrats' best chance at winning the White House in 2020, and they're making it official.

O'Rourke is not involved with the political action committee, which is co-chaired by New England-based Democratic strategists Lauren Pardi, Will Herberich and Adam Webster.

"Beto hasn't decided whether he's running for President," the group writes in an email that will be sent to followers on Thursday morning -- an email list they say is thousands strong. "However, we believe strongly in Beto's potential candidacy and think it's critical to start organizing now. In a field that could include more than a dozen candidates, there's not a moment to waste.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/28/politics/beto-orourke-pac-2020/index.html

[Gothmog]

3. Go Beto

[frazzled]

4. I can't believe ...

we're going to have two whole years of 2020 election talk.

I'm all for a law that would limit presidential elections to 9 months, beginning to end. You can gestate a baby in that amount of time (and it seems like forever when you're going through it), so that should be a generous amount of time to gestate an election.

[redstatebluegirl]

5. I agree, it makes me crazy.

While that nonsense is going on the country goes down the toilet while the MSM follow the shiny balls.

[Apollyonus]

6. Go Beto !!! n/t