Reports out of Texas indicate Beto reached out to Stacey Abrams and called her and welcomed her as she arrived in his home state, fresh off polls showing Beto fighting for TX at 50-50 with Trump in the no longer bloody red state. It's a tossup, folks!
I strongly feel Texas is in play. While Cruz beat Beto in TX by 3% and despite shenanigans like machines vote flipping in favor of Cruz, Cruz made a big loser of Trump, dusting Trump by 20% on his home turf in the primary. So I wonder if while Betomentum in TX accelerates over the coming months Beto can strip the GOP of all relevancy in an extinction level electoral deluge.
Beto's vision of America is a country united by community and common cause, one gleaming in stark contrast to the dark division and hate incited by Trump and his militant, deranged mafia.
If we are going to come together, we need to reach out in this country to all voters and sign them up. I propose, the massive whole scale registration of new voters was the secret sauce to cooking up Obama's unlikely two-term coalition.
And what better person to have on our side with Beto than Stacey Abrams, an exceptional campaigner in her own right, whose signature issue speaks to the voices screaming out for the right to vote.
The gravitas of this tandem aligns in perfect synergy with the Dem Party's signature legislation HR1, an aggressive ambitious plan to return Government to its rightful owners, busting up rigged maps, drowning out dirty money and promoting grassroots candidates, giving them a fighting chance to campaign without having to worry about falling into debt.
Abrams came up hours later at O'Rourke's rally, where an audience member lamented her loss while asking him about voter suppression. O'Rourke said he had coincidentally been talking to her on his way to the rally, welcoming her to Texas and thanking her for her work on voting rights. He brought her up again after reiterating his campaign promise to spearhead a new Voting Rights Act.
"As president of the United States, if she's willing to do it, we'll put Stacey Abrams in charge of this effort," O'Rourke said to cheers.
It sounds like Beto is hearing Stacey Abrams and recognizing her invaluable contributions to our Democracy.
Might these talks lay groundwork for a VP selection down the road, something to really get Abrams in the spotlight as an ambassador of HR1?
Thoughts?
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