{"id":177283,"date":"2019-11-02T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/02\/buh-bye-beto\/"},"modified":"2019-11-02T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T23:22:00","slug":"buh-bye-beto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/02\/buh-bye-beto\/","title":{"rendered":"Buh Bye Beto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rY0WxgSXdEE\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Cue Queen<\/i><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/01\/us\/politics\/beto-orourke-drops-out.html\">Beto O\u2019Rourke has ended his Presidential bid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was a much better candidate toward the end of the campaign, when he actually showed some outrage following the mass shooting in his hometown.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Former Representative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/us\/elections\/beto-orourke.html?module=inline\">Beto O\u2019Rourke<\/a> of Texas announced on Friday that he was dropping out of the presidential race, ending a campaign in which he struggled for months to recapture the energy of his insurgent 2018 Senate candidacy on a national stage full of other big personalities and liberal champions.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. O\u2019Rourke made the decision to quit the race in the middle of this week, on the eve of a gathering of Democratic presidential candidates in Iowa, according to people familiar with his thinking. He is not expected to run for any other office in 2020, despite persistent efforts by party leaders and political donors to coax him into another bid for the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>His campaign has been under extreme financial strain, and Mr. O\u2019Rourke\u2019s advisers concluded that proceeding in the race might have meant making deep cuts to his staff in order to pay for advertising and other measures to compete in the early primary and caucus state.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. O\u2019Rourke confirmed his withdrawal in a <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@BetoORourke\/thank-you-b13458279468\">post on Medium<\/a> and in an email message to his supporters. In that message, Mr. O\u2019Rourke said he was proud of championing issues like guns and climate change but conceded that his campaign lacked \u201cthe means to move forward successfully.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe if he hadn&#8217;t been a candidate about nothing for the first half of his campaign, he would still be in the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cue Queen Beto O\u2019Rourke has ended his Presidential bid. He was a much better candidate toward the end of the campaign, when he actually showed some outrage following the mass shooting in his hometown. Former Representative Beto O\u2019Rourke of Texas announced on Friday that he was dropping out of the presidential race, ending a campaign &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[482,374,405],"class_list":["post-177283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-breaking-news","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}