{"id":35742,"date":"2019-03-01T03:12:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35742"},"modified":"2019-03-01T03:12:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:12:20","slug":"waiting-for-betos-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35742","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Beto&#8217;s decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/beto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35743\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/beto-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/beto-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/beto-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/beto.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a good bet that Beto O&#8217;Rourke, who says he&#8217;s made his decision regarding the 2020 political season, is not going to run for a seat on the El Paso County Commissioners Court.<\/p>\n<p>Nor is he running for the U.S. Senate against John Cornyn, the senior Texas Republican senator.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I get it! He&#8217;s going to announce he is running for president of the United States. Is that it? Sure it is! Or so many observers are saying.<\/p>\n<p>I am trying to get excited about it. I am not there. At least not yet.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Rourke came tantalizingly close to defeated U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018. He got Texas Democrats all fired up. He gave them hope that if a Democrat can come within a couple of percentage points of winning a statewide race, then perhaps there will be a chance for the party to break the GOP vise grip on the political structure.<\/p>\n<p>But is the young man, a former El Paso congressman, ready for the Big Show? A big part of me wonders if he&#8217;s up for the biggest job on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Were he to be nominated and then run against Donald Trump for the presidency, O&#8217;Rourke would have my support. I just wonder if he&#8217;s able to defeat a <em>gigantic<\/em> field of Democrats lining up to take down the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s going to liven this contest up . . . even more than it is already.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it&#8217;s a good bet that Beto O&#8217;Rourke, who says he&#8217;s made his decision regarding the 2020 political season, is not going to run for a seat on the El Paso County Commissioners Court. Nor is he running for the U.S. Senate against John Cornyn, the senior Texas Republican senator. Oh, I get it! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35742\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Waiting for Beto&#8217;s decision<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,18],"tags":[7225,7043,1424,8429],"class_list":["post-35742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-2020-election","tag-beto-orourke","tag-donald-trump","tag-el-paso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35744,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35742\/revisions\/35744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}