Did Beto’s Radical Anti-Gun Appeal Resonate With Dems?

By Tom Knighton

Beto O’Rourke made a statement at the last Democratic debate that’s been hotly contested ever since. While some of his opponents seem to support his call for mandatory buybacks, others oppose it. However, what other candidates think isn’t really all that big of a deal. What really matters is what do the voters think?

O’Rourke hasn’t exactly been a frontrunner in this campaign. He’s a bottom-tier candidate who is, admittedly, getting a lot of free press thanks to people like me who keep pointing out his ridiculous claims.

For a while, he’s been polling at about three percent. That’s nothing to be proud of for someone who was once the golden boy of the Democratic Party.

Yet a Morning Consult Poll released yesterday shows Beto with a bit of a bump following his debate night performance, moving up to a whopping four percent.

What does this mean?

Well, it might not mean anything. The single percentage point is within the margin of error for pretty much any poll you care to name, so he may have had more support previously and this new poll is more reflective of that. It could just as easily be that this slightly overrepresents his support due …Read the Rest

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