A Great First Blush Candidate
Armstrong & Getty On Demand
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🗓️ 4 November 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm sorry, Sean. I told you to pay a joke and then I started talking. |
| 0:23.3 | Idiot! I'm an idiot. I fumbled the ball. Like, Peyton Manning and that one Super Bowl. |
| 0:28.4 | First play of the game. So do you want the joke or not? I do want the joke. |
| 0:31.8 | And Beto Rourke announced he's dropping out of the 2020 presidential race said Beto, |
| 0:37.6 | I Caramba, no I presidentate Parame. So much Democ. So much Democ with Beto. And yet it's |
| 0:46.4 | over. Hi, bye. He came into our lives a brief novo of something or other and now he's gone. |
| 0:52.2 | He's he's a great example of something smarter people than me need to write papers about that |
| 0:58.0 | whole phenomenon. Why did he seem so appealing? But wasn't what's going on there? What's different |
| 1:08.8 | about running for president versus running for Senate? The difference in the media between running |
| 1:13.5 | against somebody everybody in the media hates Ted Cruz versus running against a bunch of people |
| 1:19.4 | that the media like. Yeah. Bernie Elizabeth. Yeah. And then the scrutiny you get when the media |
| 1:26.0 | all loves you because you're running an enemy friend of my enemy blob that whole thing. Sure. |
| 1:31.3 | You know, that's a lot of it. Yeah. Because he was getting he was getting boostered. Anything he did |
| 1:36.9 | was boostered when he was running against Ted Cruz. Yeah. It was childish and inappropriate of me to |
| 1:41.9 | retweet Alissa Milano's tweet from last year in which when Beto lost the Senate race, she said, |
| 1:47.3 | good, now he can run for president. Yeah. How'd that go? Anyway, he had nothing. No. He was this deep. |
| 1:56.5 | Yeah. If you had all that stuff, he had the skateboarding, air drumming stuff and some political |
| 2:03.6 | chops. You'd be pretty tough in the modern world. He had some decent enough rhetoric. He was good off |
| 2:08.8 | the cuff in responses that the media ladled up a lot of. Right. Right. Various, you know, cell phone |
| 2:15.8 | videos speech. Oh, look at him. He's a great first blush candidate. Very charming, very appealing. |
| 2:22.8 | Second interview didn't go so well. So anyway, be gone, Beto. And take Cory Booker with you. |
| 2:29.4 | It the hell out of here. What's his story? I got the the national poll here. I'll just |
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