Trump has Beto-envy. It should be obvious to everyone by now even if Beto remains far down your list of candidate preferences. And that means something. Beto-envy has exposed an opening. Envy comes from insecurity. It is self-doubt — a limitation — weakness. Envy has both source and location. Where is Trump’s weakness?
He’s anything but invincible and inevitable despite Trump trolls insisting #TrumpLandslide all over social media. If you follow the Beto campaign closely you will get the sense they smell blood. We smell blood. Trump most fears Beto and it’s all about Texas and the rise of Hispanic voters wanting the same freedoms and fairness to pursue the American Dream.
Beto put Texas in play, sending Republican operatives into a frenzy. They called on Trump with alarms blaring and arms flailing. Trump caught a whiff of his own blood for a change.
Save Texas. Save us from the carnage of political extinction!
For once a formidable opponent causing panic in the inner circle of brazen GOP overlords, appeared before Trump’s red eyes.
When threatened fresh off Beto’s game-changing shift of Texas from safe-Republican to tossup status, Trump doubled down playing his race card.
After using his announcement speech in 2016 to call Mexicans racists and criminals, he lied about invasions ahead of 2018, a swamp of lies that will continue heading into 2020 it seems.
"People hate the word 'invasion,' but that's what it is," he said. "It's an invasion of drugs and criminals and people."
Trump exposed his underbelly to the Beto threat in Texas, chosing his SOTU address, of all speeches, to target Beto’s El Paso,of all people’s places, to launch his 2020 platform, Part II of his white supremacist attack on minority groups who could swing elections in key states like Texas and Arizona
Trump, in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, said that El Paso “used to have extremely high rates of violent crime — one of the highest in the entire country, and considered one of our nation’s most dangerous cities ... immediately upon its building, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of the safest cities in our country.”
Trump wasn’t finished with El Paso and Beto. He was just getting started.
Trump, vulnerable in Texas for his overreach on immigration and dogged by his alienation of Hispanic voters, returned to El Paso to plant his Confederate flag. For the first time in his life, Trump felt outnumbered, so he lied about his crowd size compared to Beto’s.
"So we have let's say, 35,000 people tonight. And he has 200 people, 300 people. Not too good," Trump declared, in a lie so over-the-top that it's more pitiful than enraging. He later tried to insist that the O'Rourke rally had "about 15 people."
In fact, it's likely that the progressive rally was bigger. The El Paso Fire Department said that about 6,500 people attended Trump's rally, and estimates of the counter-rally's size ranged from 7,000 to 15,000 people. Perhaps more importantly, the counter-rally looked more like the community in El Paso, compared to the largely white crowd at the Trump rally.
In the wake of Trump’s toy soldier’s massacre in El Paso, Trump still couldn’t shake big bad Beto from his head. Instead of consoling the families mourning loss, he gloated about himself and bragged about crowd sizes again. Beto-envy.
When one of the hospital employees Trump was addressing Wednesday said he had sat in the front row of the “Make America Great Again” rally earlier this year, the president reached out to shake his hand.
“That was some crowd, and we had twice the number outside,” Trump replied. “And then you had this crazy Beto. Beto had, like, 400 people in a parking lot. They said, ‘His crowd was wonderful.’”
So is this real this Beto-envy or is all of this just a plan to get Beto to step down and run for Senate (I kid). A candidate appealing to Independents in Texas 64%-11% over Trump and leading by 11% in a recent poll of that state, has the potential to appeal to Independents in other crucial states like Arizona and Florida. Trump’s evil plan for 2020 is to use terror to suppress the Hispanic vote. The Republican’s plan is to frame Beto as an empty suit who needs more experience in the Senate.
Former Texas representative and presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke would trounce President Donald Trump in the Lone Star State in 2020, according to a new University of Texas poll. Among registered voters in Texas, the survey found that 49 percent would vote for O'Rourke in next year's general election while only 38 percent would choose Trump.
This unusual advantage for a Democrat in Texas is owed to O'Rourke's support in the poll among independents, who break for him by wide margins over Trump.
This favorability among independents also provides a critical edge to other Democrats who, the poll found, in hypothetical matchups could best Trump in Texas
Beto is clobbering Trump in Texas, winning Independents 64%-11%. As Betomania runs wild the Lone Star state, Republicans are scrambling and bracing for a Blue Wave in 2020.
Even worse for Trump and his party of racists is Beto has wrote a playbook to defeat Trump, challenging the press to report accurately on Trump’s racist words and actions. Beto is forcing the press to link homegrown terrorism to specific Trump policies like his Muslim ban, to his antics on the stump, such as laughing when his supporters propose shooting immigrants.
Beto is commanding the winning narrative. It’s not about busing, or Biden’s votes in the early 90’s or Kamala’s crackdown on pot. It’s not about who gets free health care and who pays for it. It’s not about both siderism or gotcha. It’s not about bipartisanship (Biden). Hell, it’s not even about the rich dominating the poor, the theme championed by Bernie and enhanced by passionate Senator, Elizabeth Warren, even though that theme could have been a winner in 2016. That was 4 years ago.
Beto’s playbook?
2020 is a referendum on a dangerous President. And there’s plenty of material backing up Beto’s framing. There is 3 years of homegrown terrorism on the rise.
Exhibit A: Trump is a racist, in rallies and Tweets. All the candidates are on board with this frame.
Exhibit B: Trump is a white supremacist, in his policies and his weaponizing of white supremacist code words like ‘infestation’ and references to African countries as ‘shit hole’ countries, or saying Haitians have ‘AIDS’. Multiple candidates agree with this frame.
Exhibit C: Trump’s die-hard base is falling into fascism, chanting for Trump excommunicate American women of color serving in Congress to foreign countries, ICE raids leaving children motherless, kids in cages, concentration camps. Trump’s voters have to be held accountable for cheering on these atrocities, Beto has asserted.
Exhibit D: Trump has empowered homegrown terrorism, violent acts such as the one in El Paso, in Dayton, in Pittsburgh, in Charlottesville. Barr and Trump ignored Homeland Security Warnings
Beto’s campaign is forcing the question, are we a country of unity and of laws? Or are we a country of division, guns, terror and hate.
Are you with the racists or are you with the United States?
How can the media not take the bait, given all this evidence that Beto is so willing and ready to throw into the cameras?
How can the media try to make 2020 about both sides being partly to blame for the countries problems right now? About who pays for ‘free-stuff’? About Pelosi slow-walking impeachment despite the President’s cover-up of an enemy attack on our democracy that he continues to deny because he participated in it, wants it to happen again and the Russia threat was confirmed by Mueller himself as he said they’re plotting to invade our elections as we’re sitting here right now?
It is Beto who is putting Trump and Fox News on record.
The other candidates can stop fighting now.
They know what to do.
And so do all of us who support them.
The NRA is going down.
Barr is going down.
White supremacists are going down.
Fox news is going down.
Trump is going down.