Persistent calls for the former Texas congressman to run for Senate have exasperated his supporters
Ever since the mass shooting in his home town, the media has become intrigued — once again — by Beto O’Rourke.Initial signs for O’Rourke aren’t especially promising, as the former congressman edges closer to resuming his presidential campaign.The latest Morning Consult poll, released Tuesday, put O’Rourke at 3 percent nationally, about the same position he held before pausing his campaign and returning to El Paso, Texas, following the shooting that left 22 people dead at a Walmart there.
In an op-ed for CNN on Tuesday, O’Rourke said the country is facing a “defining moment of truth.” A politician who has long tethered his political core less closely to ideology than to the culture and geography of his border city, O’Rourke wrote, “I believe El Paso can light our path forward, even as America now stands in sympathy and solidarity in its hour of heartbreak and anger.
“The tragedy gave him a bump in the minds of the media,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime Democratic strategist based in New York. “Is it likely that he will be the president of the United States? It is more likely that Texas will secede from the union again. Is it likely that he will raise the money needed to run a presidential campaign in the 21st century? … The answer is also, ‘Unlikely.
Colin Strother, a veteran Democratic strategist in Texas, said front-runners in the Democratic primary were fortunate that O’Rourke did not publicly fault them for not pausing their own campaigns following the shootings in Texas and Ohio. O’Rourke could have put them in a “really difficult spot,” he said.
For O’Rourke’s campaign staff, the former congressman’s response to the shooting has served as a galvanizing force in an operation that had been battered by weak fundraising and polling. In addition, O’Rourke has already qualified for the fall debates. Since many of his competitors will not qualify, his supporters view that stage as an opportunity for him to break out.
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