Say, you all remember the “Beto the Closer” argument, right? That claim came from Texas Democrats exactly three months ago, when the party insisted that Robert Francis O’Rourke had positioned himself for the kind of late-race charge that they insisted he was known for pulling off. It’s not clear when that happened, since O’Rourke had lost his Senate challenge against Ted Cruz four years ago in a moderate Democrat wave, and never even registered in the Democratic presidential primary two years later … despite getting tens of millions of dollars in celebrity cash in both cycles.Read More
Beto the Closer: New poll shows Abbott gaining six points in eight weeks, 53/40
