The Club for Growth sees the ex-Texas congressman as a serious threat to Donald Trump, and they're

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GOP meddles in Democratic nomination with takedown of O'Rourke

The Club for Growth sees the ex-Texas congressman as a serious threat to Donald Trump, and they're treating him accordingly.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/10/beto-orourke-2020-attack-1214805

By ALEX ISENSTADT at Politico

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The decision to go after O’Rourke, whose spokesman didn't respond to a request for comment, reflects a fear that he would mobilize the millennial and suburban voters who powered the Democratic 2018 House takeover and imperil Trump’s reelection. Republicans would be at risk of losing Texas if O'Rourke is the Democratic standard bearer, said Club for Growth President David McIntosh.

McIntosh said his organization recently conducted a survey of battleground states and found O’Rourke running narrowly behind the president. An O’Rourke nomination, he warned, could complicate the electoral fortunes of Republicans up and down the ballot in 2020.

“We watched what he did in Texas in the race against Cruz and realized his potential within the Democratic primary system is enormously larger than what people are giving him credit for right now. We realized, here is a real potential threat because if he is the nominee then Texas suddenly is in play,” McIntosh said.

O'Rourke's narrow loss to Sen. Ted Cruz last year made O'Rourke a liberal cause célèbre. He would almost certainly enter the Democratic nomination fight as a top-tier contender, benefiting from national name recognition and an enormous small-dollar fundraising network.

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[Cha]

1. Yes, just what I said on another

thread about Beto.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=19113

The decision to go after O’Rourke, whose spokesman didn't respond to a request for comment, reflects a fear that he would mobilize the millennial and suburban voters who powered the Democratic 2018 House takeover and imperil Trump’s reelection

Mahalo, apple

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2. Sorry Cha I did not see it. I posted another thread on The Club for Growrth going

after Beto early but I wanted to put up all the Texas threat Beto poses to the GOP found in this article too. oh I did see it. I meant Trump potentially losing Texas because to Beto and how Beto has changed the hearts of many who followed him. Not exactly the same. The political wire recap and the article he references.

[Cha]

3. Oh no.. sorry.. I didn't mean they were

the same.. just that I had posted something similar on that other one about the gop knowing how successful Beto was in his race for Senator, and how he got there.

That was up close and personal for them... sweating it out if cruz would be defeated or not.

I appreciate both of the OPs.

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4. Cool.

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5. Bernie people are also attcking Beto

He poses a major threat to the socialists ... I mean "Democratic Socialists"

[BannonsLiver]

6. +1

[Amimnoch]

7. Listen to his speeches. He's also got the right message

That will likely energize voters in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida to get out the vote for us. Florida and, especially Ohio have been “president maker” states for decades now. No president has sat the office without Ohio’s electoral votes since JFK.

I’ve seen first hand what his campaign can do for down ticket runners as well. A Beto candidacy would help reclaim the Senate and maintain/grow our numbers in the House.