{"id":37703,"date":"2019-06-28T00:55:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T00:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37703"},"modified":"2019-06-28T00:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T00:55:33","slug":"dont-count-beto-out-just-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37703","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t count Beto out just yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Democraticdebate%20%23BETO%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/beto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37704\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/beto-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/beto-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/beto-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/beto.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess the preliminary verdict is in regarding the first of two Democratic Party presidential primary debates. Texan Beto O&#8217;Rourke might have suffered the most serious wounds from the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>I agree that O&#8217;Rourke, the former congressman from El Paso, didn&#8217;t sound sharp. He got caught flat-footed when former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro went after him over immigration reform; then we had that strange Spanish riff that seemed a bit gimmicky to many listeners&#8217; ears.<\/p>\n<p>However, I am not going to sound the death knell over O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s candidacy. That might come, just not quite yet.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Rourke appears to be learning how to campaign nationally as he goes along. He ran for the U.S. Senate in Texas without employing any pollsters, or much of a professional campaign staff &#8212; and he still came within a whisker of knocking Ted Cruz out of office in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>That first debate did produce some highlights for several candidates: Castro, Hawaii U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, New York Mayor Bill DiBlasio, New Jersey U.S. Sen. Cory Booker all scored well.<\/p>\n<p>Beto? He took some body punches. Some of his wounds were self-inflicted.<\/p>\n<p>Remember this: The campaign is just getting started. The candidates have a long way to go. It&#8217;s no time for Beto to bail.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Democraticdebate%20%23BETO%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the preliminary verdict is in regarding the first of two Democratic Party presidential primary debates. Texan Beto O&#8217;Rourke might have suffered the most serious wounds from the encounter. I agree that O&#8217;Rourke, the former congressman from El Paso, didn&#8217;t sound sharp. He got caught flat-footed when former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro went &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37703\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t count Beto out just yet<\/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":[7043,1337,1342],"class_list":["post-37703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-beto-orourke","tag-democratic-party","tag-democratic-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37703","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=37703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37705,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37703\/revisions\/37705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}