Since it now appears Beto is running, Will he enter the race in the next 2 weeks... or later?
I'm assuming within the next two weeks, and looks like it'll be via text:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=303677.msg6705452#msg6705452
The whole thing's kind of weird though. O'Rourke took the unusual step of admitting publicly that he's made up his mind, and did so more than a couple of days before he was ready to announce what that decision was. But the thing is, if the answer was no, he's not running, then there's no reason to delay the announcement. He would just announce that immediately upon making the decision. So now we effectively know that he's running, and yet he's not admitting it publicly.
“It’s a bit much,” said one Democratic strategist who has spoken with O’Rourke about working on the 2020 campaign. “The question is, does he have a secret sauce that no one knows about — that no reporter, no operative, no strategist understands? Or is this just the ‘Beto Show.’ And if this is just the ‘Beto Show,’ there’s a breaking point between strategy and narcissism.”
Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime Democratic strategist based in New York, called O’Rourke’s demurrals “good media theater.” But he said, “It’s lousy politics … Your supporters are going to dissipate.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/its-a-bit-much-beto-drags-out-his-2020-tease-at-south-by-southwest/ar-BBUzRv4?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=mailsignout
