{"id":35898,"date":"2019-03-10T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35898"},"modified":"2019-03-10T01:31:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T01:31:11","slug":"looks-like-betos-running-for-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35898","title":{"rendered":"Looks like Beto&#8217;s running for POTUS"},"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-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35899\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/beto-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/beto-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/beto-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/beto-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/beto-1.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you put a gun to my head and said &#8220;Make your prediction about Beto O&#8217;Rourke \u2026 or else,&#8221; I am likely to say that Beto is running for president of the United States in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Why else would be stand in front of a South by Southwest crowd in Austin today and tell &#8217;em he&#8217;s made up his mind, but just isn&#8217;t ready to divulge what he has decided to do.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds to me as though O&#8217;Rourke is lining up his ducks, assembling his campaign organization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/03\/09\/beto-orourke-sxsw-1214711\">Run, Beto, run?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I mean, think about it! Were he not going to run, why would he have any reason to delay announcing a decision. If he&#8217;s going to stay home, find other work, do something else he would just say so. Isn&#8217;t that right? Does that make as much sense to you as it does to me?<\/p>\n<p>So, Beto &#8212; who nearly beat Sen. Ted Cruz for the U.S. Senate seat from Texas in 2018 &#8212; likely is going to jump into the massive and still growing Democratic Party primary field that wants to challenge Donald John Trump for president.<\/p>\n<p>I beg you, though, dear reader. Please don&#8217;t hold me to this if O&#8217;Rourke decides to stay home in El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>My so-called &#8220;prediction&#8221; is based on a hypothetical circumstance. Please remember that if he decides against running for president.<\/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>If you put a gun to my head and said &#8220;Make your prediction about Beto O&#8217;Rourke \u2026 or else,&#8221; I am likely to say that Beto is running for president of the United States in 2020. Why else would be stand in front of a South by Southwest crowd in Austin today and tell &#8217;em &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35898\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Looks like Beto&#8217;s running for POTUS<\/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],"tags":[7043,1342,1424,1941,4537,5051],"class_list":["post-35898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-beto-orourke","tag-democratic-primary","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-ted-cruz","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35898","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=35898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35901,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35898\/revisions\/35901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}