Twitter's Insiders Are Skeptical About Beto O'Rourke. Iowans Don't Seem To Care.

[RandySF]

Across a breathtaking succession of stops throughout Iowa, from three different countertops, one podcast studio, and one truck bed, the first three days of O’Rourke’s campaign unfolded a world away. It wasn’t that Iowans hadn’t seen the skepticism about O’Rourke. It was that many of them didn’t much care. They saw an O’Rourke much closer to the one stormed across Texas, coming within a narrow margin of defeating Cruz.

They were entranced, they said, by his charisma, his oratory, and his particular style of campaigning — down-to-earth, personal, and relentlessly positive. Though few were willing to commit to voting for him, as is common this early in Iowa, many said they were convinced that he could deliver on the promise of unity that he offered at every campaign stop.

“I tend to agree with some of the stories … but I look at him and he’s the only one that gives me that hope,” said Anne Phillips, a graphic designer who saw O’Rourke interviewed for a podcast in Cedar Rapids. “I want reconciliation, and he brings that to my heart. I sense in him that he can bring us back together.”

“He is able to articulate who he is and what he believes in a way that I have not seen yet by anybody else,” said Scott Johnson, a retired IBM employee in Cedar Rapids who said he had seen seven Democrats on the 2020 campaign trail so far. “I understand now why he got $70 million in Texas — why in a red state he came so close. It’s his personality.”


https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/beto-orourke-iowa-2020-president-twitter

[Tipperary]

1. The twitter thread linked in that article is freaking hilarious.

Worth a read.

[JI7]

2. social media is full of anti beto shit similar to the crap we saw with Hillary

but more people are calling it out. the same happened to harris when she announced.

and they are also anti Warren.

[RandySF]

4. Sharice Davids and Gretchen Whitmer caught all kinds of social media shit during the 2018 primaries

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[Cha]

9. Before they both WON!!

Brawawaaaaa

[BannonsLiver]

5. They're anti everyone outside of the junior senator from Vermont

[Autumn]

3. Does this Anne Phillips really think Trump and Republicans want reconciliation? Has she paid any

attention to what has been going on for the last several years? Particularly the last two? Or has she been hiding in La La land? I want a pink,sparkly unicorn with a sterling silver saddle too, but I'm smart enough to know no such animal exists.

[RandySF]

7. It's one thing to jump on a candidate

but it's not wise to ridicule someone whose support you'll want in February.

[Autumn]

11. Do YOU think Republicans and Trump will work with Biden?

Like I said any one who thinks that has been in La La land.

[Awsi Dooger]

6. Anyone who focuses on policies is hilariously out of touch

I don't know how else to put it. Think of it like an alien invasion. Suddenly any human being is your friend and ally. You don't care what they think on any subject. Winning is the only variable.

[pansypoo53219]

8. why does iowa hate america? keep picking losers.

[Cha]

10. Who are the "twitter insiders"?

Glad Dems in Iowa aren't buying what they're trying to sell!

[Adrahil]

12. The long knives have come out for Beto....

That makes me think he's on to something.

[Peacetrain]

13. As an Iowan, and a Biden supporter..Beto is doing just fine explaining himself

I am not getting this fluff stuff about Beto.. He did an awesome job explaining why he supports conservation policies.. so you got me why everyone is in a tear.. other than they have not actually listened to him speak ,, and all medias follow each more or less.. and that is their meme.. did the same thing to President Obama..