Martin O'Malley says he's not running in 2020, endorses Beto O'Rourke

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former Democratic presidential contender Martin O’Malley is sitting out the 2020 White House race.

O’Malley, governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015, said Thursday he would not seek his party's nomination for the right to challenge President Trump. O'Malley sought the 2016 Democratic nomination, but dropped out of the race after his Iowa Caucuses support came in at less than 1 percent.

Instead for 2020, O’Malley is backing outgoing Rep. Beto O’Rourke. The El Paso Democrat is considering a White House bid after waging a closer-than-expected, but still losing, 2018 race against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.

“People are looking for a new leader who can bring us together. They are looking for a unifier and a healer. They are looking for a leader of principle, and they are now looking for a fearless vision,” O’Malley wrote in an op-ed published in the Des Moines Register.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/martin-omalley-says-hes-not-running-in-2020-endorses-beto-orourke/ar-BBRLcEf

[question everything]

1. Thank you. Would have loved for him to try

but this will be a crowded field. And am glad that he endorses O'Rourke.

[LiberalFighter]

2. He did not stand out when he ran in 2016.

I have not seen anything to show he has what is necessary.

[Vinca]

3. I like Beto, too. If he can do what he did in Texas, he's a contender.

He handled Don better than anyone has, too. He ignored him. Drove the orange cretin crazy.

[mahina]

4. Good because he would only lose anyway.

I supported him at first in the last go round, very early. Read everything he wrote. Read everything I could from Baltimore.

Then I heard him speak.

I’m sorry but voice matters. I really think if Hillary had vocal training she would have won.

I voted for her, volunteered for her for many days, phone banked for her from Hawaii (yo, AZ, that was us 🤙🏼

Yeah, other shitty things happened but first you need to be able to get people to listen to you and the sound of your speech matters. It’s nonverbal communication and people judge you for it, usually unconsciously, usually unchangeably, and usually more than they judge your words.

Don’t blame me, talk to the communication oriented social scientists.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/8873199/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/24620828/






I went looking for studies to show you and came across this one. Off topic somewhat but interesting.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3025286/

[NurseJackie]

5. Is Beto actually running? Why endorse someone who's not officially running?

[DavidDvorkin]

6. He says he hopes O'Rourke runs

Presumably, if O'Rourke does run, O'Malley will then endorse him.