A Modest Proposal: Beto Should Demand Full Repeal Of The 2nd Amendment

By Cam Edwards

Former Texas congressman and current presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke will use his home city of El Paso, Texas as the backdrop for another campaign reset on Thursday, promising to take on Donald Trump, white supremacy, and the 2nd Amendment.

NEW: Beto to give his first major address tomorrow and return to campaign trail pic.twitter.com/MK1gnrKsRb

— Aleigha Cavalier (@aleighacavalier) August 14, 2019

I’m not sure a candidate who’s currently sitting at 2.8% in the Real Clear Politics polling average can hold a “major address”, but as Allahpundit at Hot Air points out, O’Rourke is desperate to gain ground on Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and this might be his best chance to do so.

I keep thinking that this is all building to Beto using the shooting as a pretext to bail out of the presidential race and run for Senate in Texas instead, as the entire party wants him to do (“El Paso needs me!”), but no, not so says Politico. “The El Paso massacre only redoubled his resolve to campaign against Trump, according to sources close to his campaign,” they claim, noting that Beto has already qualified for the September debate whereas …Read the Rest

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