Opinion: Beto O’Rourke jumps in. Now here’s the big question.
By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 14 at 9:00 AM After a long tease, Beto O’Rourke announced on Thursday his run for the presidency. His kickoff video was quintessential O’Rourke:
O’Rourke has an engaged base of supporters, an established persona and loads of passion. He could well drag Sanders down in the polls, stealing away young, aspirational voters. Compared with Sanders’s angry-man routine and other candidates telling us that practically everything in the United States is terrible and must change, O’Rourke might come as a breath of fresh air.
Nevertheless, you have to have enough staff, money and support strategically placed at the right time and place to win week after week as the campaign moves around the country. If the Senate race exhausted him and strained his family, he might find the presidential race brutal. O’Rourke’s first challenge is to show he knows enough and can hold his own among potential candidates including a former vice president, two governors, one mayor, one former mayor and a fleet of senators who have plenty to say. He’s more than capable of learning what he needs to and doing homework, if he decides he needs to. He needs solidity.
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