{"id":92343,"date":"2019-11-02T11:44:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T15:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92343"},"modified":"2019-11-02T11:44:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T15:44:14","slug":"beto-orourke-out-of-the-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92343","title":{"rendered":"Beto O&#8217;Rourke Out of the Presidential Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_92099\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92099\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-92099\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Butt-Head-and-Beto-340x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Butt-Head-and-Beto-340x333.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Butt-Head-and-Beto-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Butt-Head-and-Beto.jpg 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Available for Butt-Head role tryout? (r\/The_Donald)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While running to try to unseat Senator Ted Cruz, Beto O&#8217;Rourke received a healthy amount of support from the liberal elite. This support came from Hollywood, the media, major donors, etc. What did the left want?<\/p>\n<p>They wanted to defeat a Republican Senator in the short run. They wanted to defeat President Trump in the long run. O&#8217;Rourke was the candidate that they were hoping would accomplish that objective.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Rourke, on the other hand, must have felt that it was about him. So, despite losing his senate bid, he tried his luck again. This time, in a bid to get the Democratic nomination for president. Shortly after that, reality hit him head-on like a brick wall.<\/p>\n<p>The left was just using him when he ran against Senator Cruz. During his bid for the nomination, he was up against more favored liberals.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Politico:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The timing of the announcement stunned O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s supporters and local staff, many of whom had risen before dawn to place campaign signs throughout the city. An adviser said O&#8217;Rourke had finalized his decision by early Thursday, when a small clutch of aides were first informed.<\/p>\n<p>A campaign adviser said O&#8217;Rourke will not run for Senate next year, despite persistent prodding. Leaving the gathering, O&#8217;Rourke declined to answer several questions about his departure from the race. But he said he will do &#8220;whatever I can for this country, no longer as a candidate, but with my fellow Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came as candidates gathered here for events over the weekend. Supporters and staffers waiting for O&#8217;Rourke at a pre-dinner rally saw the occasion turn into a wake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not what I thought would happen here tonight,&#8221; said one supporter to another, as a light drizzle fell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many Democrats also support the second amendment. Whoever advised him to embrace the anti-gun argument that he actually embraced gave him some bad advice.<\/p>\n<p>You could read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2019\/11\/01\/orourke-drops-out-of-2020-race-064032\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While running to try to unseat Senator Ted Cruz, Beto O&#8217;Rourke received a healthy amount of &hellip; <a title=\"Beto O&#8217;Rourke Out of the Presidential Race\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92343\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beto O&#8217;Rourke Out of the Presidential Race<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92359,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92343\/revisions\/92359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}