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Related: About this forumDoes Beto still have lightning in his bottle?
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump will deliver his State of the Union address, Gov. Greg Abbott will deliver his State of the State speech, and Beto ORourke will reveal his current state of mind to Oprah Winfrey in an interview in New Yorks Times Square.
When it airs, in the weeks that follow on the Oprah Winfrey Network (Feb. 16, 8 p.m.) and in a podcast (Feb. 27) as one of Oprahs Super Soulful Conversations, ORourkes interview will be the most public appearance of the former congressman from El Paso since he somehow barreled out of a losing campaign for the U.S. Senate last November into what post-election polls indicated was the top tier of Democratic presidential candidates for 2020 alongside old-shoe septuagenarians Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.
In the interim, ORourke has done some solo roaming in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. He talked to folks at bars, cafes, museums and classrooms about their lives and the future of the country, obliquely looking for an answer about whether he should run for president, but without the self-defeating clamor and crush of media that would have inevitably ensued if he had done it in more of a public way than he did.
And then, as is his wont he does have a literature degree from Columbia University he wrote about the travels and posted it on social media, in this case on Medium, to the mockery of some who considered his earnest quest an act of white privilege or emo self-indulgence or Kerouacian quackery. But he seemed to find what he was looking for, a reason to run for president if thats what he wanted.
Read more: https://www.statesman.com/news/20190201/does-beto-still-have-lightning-in-his-bottle
GreenPartyVoter
(72,388 posts)a stronger chance of winning? Most definitely.
bearsfootball516
(6,378 posts)Hes waited too long to declare, and the dentist video was weird and a bit offputting.
But hes still got a very bright future in Texas, and potentially as a presidential candidate down the road.
MBS
(9,688 posts)I like him a lot, and he and his gutsy campaign deserved to win the Texas senate race, but I also don't think he's ready to be president or even to run for president - at least not this cycle.
Agree completely that he's got "a very bright future in Texas, and potentially as a presidential candidate down the road" and I'm cheering him on as he takes his next step, which I think/hope will be something other than presidential candidate in 2020.