'There's still time for Beto to turn it around. Plenty of time. But the early returns aren't just discouraging. They are downright dismal,' writes CillizzaCNN
Take his riff on Beto O'Rourke during an"official" White House event in Louisiana on Tuesday night:"Beto. Beto's falling fast, what the hell happened? Remember about four weeks ago he said, 'I was made for it.' He was made for it! He was made to fall like a rock."It's a pretty decent summation of the arc -- downward -- that the former Texas congressman's presidential campaign has been on since, well, he got into the race.
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! Resets can work -- see John McCain during the 2008 presidential primary campaign -- but they are usually a return to the more authentic version of the politician. In O'Rourke's case, he seemed to have spent his first 60 days in the race being the person who caught fire in the Texas Senate race: Light on policy, more of a listener than a talker and, above all, cool and charismatic.Unfortunately for him, that profile isn't playing -- like, at all -- in the presidential race.
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