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RandySF

(73,807 posts) Mon Apr 28, 2025, 05:32 PM Monday

TX-SEN: Beto O'Rourke says he'll run for Senate if Texans want him to

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) said he would run for Senate again in Texas, this time for Republican Sen. John Cornyn’s seat, if Lone Star State voters wanted him to.

“If it comes to pass that this is what the people of Texas want, that it’s the highest and best use of what I can give to you, then yes I will,” O’Rourke said Saturday at a town hall in Denton, Texas.

O’Rourke ran for the Senate against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in 2018, eventually losing by less than 3 points in the historically red state. He also made an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2020 election.

In the most recent U.S. Senate race in Texas, Cruz beat former Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas), this time by more than 8 points.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5271614-beto-o-rourke-texas-senate/

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TX-SEN: Beto O'Rourke says he'll run for Senate if Texans want him to (Original Post) RandySF Monday OP

Please do hannah Monday #1

Surely Texas Democrats must have someone, anyone, better? tritsofme Monday #2

I would prefer Colin Allred LetMyPeopleVote Monday #3

No RJ-MacReady Monday #4

Please don't Danmel Monday #5

We DON'T. Jirel Monday #6

Maybe you all could recruit Charlie Crist madville Monday #8

He could have had a long Congressional career. Comrade Citizen Monday #7

hannah

(300 posts)

1. Please do

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2025, 05:38 PM

Monday

tritsofme

(19,130 posts)

2. Surely Texas Democrats must have someone, anyone, better?

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2025, 05:43 PM

Monday

Even in the worst of years for Republicans, I am quite skeptical that he is capable of winning a statewide race.

LetMyPeopleVote

(162,428 posts)

3. I would prefer Colin Allred

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2025, 05:49 PM

Monday

RJ-MacReady

(423 posts)

4. No

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2025, 05:56 PM

Monday

No no! He caused a lot of damage to our party as it is.

Danmel

(5,409 posts)

5. Please don't

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2025, 05:57 PM

Monday

You can't win. Give someone else the chance.

Jirel

(2,264 posts)

6. We DON'T.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2025, 06:14 PM

Monday

Beto needs to quit shooting for the moon, win a lower level race again, and govern well in that position, to restore his relevance.

A lot of us Texans are tired of seeing him run as a perennial LOSING candidate. This isn’t a speaking platform or a way to have a political year on people’s donations.

madville

(7,672 posts)

8. Maybe you all could recruit Charlie Crist

Reply to Jirel (Reply #6)

Mon Apr 28, 2025, 08:28 PM

Monday

Or Stacey Abrams, how many statewide races have those three lost combined you think?

Comrade Citizen

(344 posts)

7. He could have had a long Congressional career.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2025, 07:06 PM

Monday

He held frequent town halls when he was in Congress and was responsive to constituents.

His main negative locally was his ties to the "redevelopment" gentrification of El Segundo Barrio involving his father-in-law.
It's an old historic neighborhood made up of descendants of refugees from Porfirio Diaz during the Revolution.
Revolutionary leader Francisco Madero used to live in El Segundo Barrio.

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