I like him. I think he has a bright future and is a rising star in the Party. However, no way is he ready for the presidency.

That can raise a shit ton of money and energize a low voting state and turn a red state purple.
That would be an awful candidate.
Indeed.

I think it’s less about wanting what’s best for Beto, and the party, and more that these folks are scared shitless he’d win the nom over their preferred candidates. Couldn’t be more obvious.

I went to his rallies. I saw first hand what his demographics were. Young, old, black, white,Asian...even republicans.
He’s got “it” and if we don’t harness that and use it to our advantage, especially when there has been yearning for a charismatic leader of the party...then we aren’t politically smart.
We’ve been waiting for someone to emerge and here he is.

We’re starting to see agendas being laid out by folks. Monday everyone loved him. Now it’s “well, I don’t know” and “I’m not sure he’s ready” whatever that’s supposed to mean.

Anyone is. After the Orange One, there is no such thing any more. How long has he been in Congress?

Besides, if he’s not ready, whatever that’s supposed to mean, I’m sure whatever candidates you have in mind for 2020 won’t have any trouble beating him for the nomination. So no need to worry about what Beto might do.

Whatever that’s supposed to mean. I'm not worried a bit about what Beto might do, I'm hoping like hell he will decide to run in 2020. I think he's ready right now and would be perfect.

When you respond to a question with what makes him ready it doesn’t exactly sound like a ringing endorsement.

they thought he wasn't ready and what would make him ready. I didn't get an answer.

He was told to wait his turn; that he wasn't ready; he was too inexperienced.

Barack Obama did not care and I thank him for not listening.

gave the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Wow, everyone said. Someday he should run for President. But not in 2008, nope. He's too young, just a state senator, in no way is he ready for the presidency and besides, he'll have his chance a few years down the road. Maybe after Hillary completes two terms. But not now.

Don't know about anyone else, but I'm rather glad that man didn't listen to the conventional wisdom.

Every 2 years the conservanazis will be cringing waiting for defeat. Gerrymandering and voting restrictions are the only things that will be the key to their hold on power to rule over Texas.

if he runs

Cornyn is far more popular than Cruz. Texas isn’t there yet folks. Won’t be for a while. I’d bet O’Rourke knows that, which is why in the end his next move probably won’t be another senate run.

I don't think Cornyn has ever campaigned.

I agree he's more likeable. His office staff are nice. His local head staffer posed with Obama with pic on his desk.

His office has CSPAN on as oppposed Cruz who has Fox.

But that is where it ends. On the Senate floor, Cornyn has been a jerk.

His favorability ratings are much lower than Cruz. I think a lot of voters don't know who he is.

Cornyn is more popular and less divisive than Cruz. If Beto were to lose a second run at being a Texas senator it would damage his credibility as a candidate...just look how some reacted on DU to his loss to Cruz. Beto needs to run for President/VP, in that role he may put Texas in play as a democratic flip and his coattails proved to be fairly long. Beto would be an extraordinary national candidate who would absolutely energize young voters all across the county.

I think Beto came as close as he's ever gonna come to winning a statewide race in Texas as a Democrat for the foreseeable future, a close second.

I strongly think Beto would be wasting his time trying to win a statewide race in Texas in 2020 considering it will be a presidential election year and republican turnout is going to be significantly bigger than it was this year.

Beto performed better and got more votes (presidential election years and midterms) than any democratic senator or presidential candidate since god-knows-how-long, and it still wasn't enough. Assuming he runs in for Senate again in 2020, he'd would have to find a million new votes and probably need to get more votes in Texas than the President would get.

The electorate in Texas is just too conservative. Republicans just outnumber everyone else BY A LOT. Unless we get at least a million Democrats to move to Texas by 2020, I don't think he will win. Since it will be a presidential year, there's gonna be a lot more ground to make up than this midterm. I don't think that will change in two years.

At least more than the other guy what was his name corny..er something

Anyway should he run hes got this.

Texas is the most gerrymandered state in the union and has a long history of voter suppression and in this last election, voting machines that flipped votes from Beto to Cruz. Before any Democrat can win a statewide election in Texas, no matter how many votes they actually receive, there will need to be major upgrades to the voting system.

run for the next 2 years. build infrastructure in rural areas. register voters.
and make a fucking issue of election integrity NOW. not the day after an election. in time for the next election.

pretty sure he can afford to do so.

it doesnt take that much time to announce, or just put it out there that he is thinking about it.

worse than he did to Cruz.

because Texas is still too red. That he came so close shows how good a candidate he is and will be.

That is the variable. Who can defeat Trump? It is going to be exponentially more difficult than we prefer to believe, given the severe benefit of a doubt to the incumbent and with all the resources at his disposal.

One year ago many Democrats were still holding onto the nutty idea that Trump would resign or be removed from office. He's a such a lowlife people wanted to play Happy Adjuster and think that Trump was therefore not a normal incumbent. His approval rating couldn't rise. He would be ousted by Mueller. All the typical Happy Adjuster flawed thinking.

Bottom line, Trump's approval now is considerably higher than November 2016 and the exit polling always indicates higher approval among actual voters than during those pre-election approval polls. It was scary to look at one state exit poll after another in vital states and see Trump's approval above 50% or almost 50%. I don't Democrats nationally want to acknowledge that type of thing. They still prefer to believe Trump is 42% and soon to plunge. An easy out. Meanwhile it was easy to look at one exit poll number after another and realize that the Republican in the race lost, but Trump in his place would have won handily.

We need a special candidate to defeat Donald Trump. As a handicapper I don't see anyone else who qualifies. I don't plan to follow campaign 2020 if we nominate a run of the mill candidate. It will not be successful, not in that situational environment against an incumbent whose party has been in power only one term.

If Beto runs I'll pay attention

recover from election insomnia the past couple of days.

Until someone has announced they are running in 2020, it is to early for me to even discuss individuals. We will have an excellent field of candidates. The primary will decide the winner.