The New CNN poll shows Beto crushing Trump by 10 points 52 to 42, a bigger margin than any other candidate
Source: http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/05/01/rel6d.-.trump.and.2020.pdf
Beto vs Trump 52/42
Biden: 51/45
Bernie: 50/44
Pete: 47/44
Kamala: 49/45
Warren: 47/49
Beto hasn’t been on the national news much (with recent exceptions of an interview with Jorge Ramos on Univision done completely in Spanish and a small snippet on Chris Hayes on MSNBC) since he and his campaign have decided on a locally focused campaign at this stage, but he has been doing far more local events and local news than any other candidate. His campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon was Obama’s deputy campaign manager and it seems as if this local strategy at this point in the race is a mix of his 2016 Senate race and Obama’s strategy in 2008 primaries.
In addition to the great national head to head numbers above, Beto can put Texas in play which has big electoral college implications. Yes, I know there was a recent Texas poll showing Biden and Beto statistically tied with Biden 1 point better, but I personally believe Beto has the best shot of any candidate at Texas. He has a volunteer army, especially in Texas. Just go look at the canvassing events going for just the month of May on his website—there are a zillion volunteers leading canvasses all over the country and especially Texas.
And for all of the knocks against him for not having policy papers written out on Day 1 (ignoring that he verbally has answered lots of questions at his events and ignoring his 10 point statement on immigration released back in February), he now has the most detailed climate plan of any of the candidates. He developed this plan by listening and talking to experts, environmental advocates, voters, and communities impacted by climate change—and I think this is a better approach than if he had decided to write a plan solo on day 1.
The League of Conservation Voters released a statement praising Beto’s plan “This plan to confront the climate crisis is the kind of leadership we need from our next president. We commend O’Rourke for putting forward an ambitious and detailed climate plan that would start on day one of his presidency and continue throughout every day of it. His plan commits to prioritizing both executive and legislative action to immediately cut pollution, achieve net zero emissions by 2050, invest at an unprecedented scale in communities bearing the brunt of harmful pollution and those in economic transition, create good, family-sustaining jobs and more. It is also noteworthy that this is the first policy plan O’Rourke has released and that the first bill he would send to Congress would be a climate bill.”
Anyway as you can tell, I’m a big Beto fan and want to beat Trump. Any of our candidates would light years better as president than Trump