Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumA Top Adviser To Beto O'Rourke Has Left His Presidential Campaign
A top adviser to Beto ORourke, Becky Bond, has split with his campaign, an ORourke spokesperson confirmed.
Bond, a longtime progressive activist and organizer known for her work on ORourkes 2018 Senate bid against Republican Ted Cruz, left the campaign along with her deputy Zack Malitz. Malitz worked closely with Bond on Sen. Bernie Sanders first presidential campaign in 2016.
The departures come as ORourke, the former Texas congressman, has sought to professionalize a campaign operation that was, in its earliest days, small and freewheeling. ORourke announced his run for the presidency less than a month ago
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They remain volunteers for the ORourke campaign, according to Evans.
They were not only instrumental to the historic Texas Senate race but they agreed to help get us off the ground in this monumental undertaking of running a grassroots campaign for president in every part of the country, Evans said in a statement on Saturday. Becky and Zack remain close friends of the campaign, and true to form, they have already joined our army of grassroots volunteers who are signing up for shifts and committing to electing Beto president.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rubycramer/beto-orourke-becky-bond-campaign
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JI7
(89,252 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Indygram
(2,113 posts)Makes it sound like they stopped supporting him when nothing could be further from the truth.
Guess the media is still a little butt hurt that he's been choosing to meet voters before doing tv interviews. :p
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
TexasTowelie
(112,249 posts)People move on for various reasons, but in this case they aren't abandoning his campaign.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Indygram
(2,113 posts)Beto is playing it smart...build the grassroots and ground game and get out there and meet people, let Biden get in and wait for the oxygen to come back into the room and then show up to knock socks off at the debates. That's when he wants to start making a big splash.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)Time will tell though whether or not this is s a mutually pre-planned phased withdrawal. It is unusual for experienced campaign operatives to not hold professional campaign roles in a presidential election year with a wide open primary and lots of candidates looking for experienced paid staff.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Indygram
(2,113 posts)It could be they have little kids or an elderly parent. I would imagine there is a significant difference between working on a state campaign and working on a national one.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
BlueFlorida
(1,532 posts)Clickbait headlines
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Celerity
(43,408 posts)Beto surely is making many great moves, he seems a real winner. He is deffo personally out legworking all or most of the other candidates on the ground. He is always out in the field meeting people, giving his ideas a voice. I saw a great video of him in SC touring the statues by the Capitol (some are so bad, cannot believe the old Confederacy has such a grip still).
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden