Beto O'Rourke: Air of Authenticity

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The Bulwark

News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Kamala's genuine smile and Walz's empathetic version of manhood is coming through loud and clear—and may explain the joy that is coursing through the Democratic Party. Meanwhile, Vance remains a popularity sinkhole. Plus, the prospects for Texas ever turning blue, Cancun Cruz, Latino voters, getting the young to the polls, and staying in to fight the good fight. Beto O'Rourke joins Tim Miller.
show notes:

Beto's Texas voter registration group, "Powered by People"
Beto wrote about visiting Ulysses, Kansas in 2018

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the board podcast I'm your host Tim Miller I'm delighted to be here today with Democratic Dream Boat, former member of Congress
0:16.2	from El Paso, narrowly defeated by Ted Cruz in 2018.
0:20.3	He also ran for President in 2020 alongside Kamla Harris and now his organization powered by people
0:26.8	focuses on expanding democracy through voter registration and engagement. It's Beto O'Rourke. What's up, Beto?
0:33.3	Yeah, thanks for having me on.
0:34.6	Broadcasting to you from Denton, Texas,
0:37.2	where we're doing voter registration today
0:39.5	at the University of North Texas up here in Denton.
0:42.0	So, what's the North Texas
0:43.7	Texas mascot.
0:44.7	It's green.
0:45.3	It's the green machine.
0:46.3	It's a green eagle I think.
0:49.5	All right, well, I want a full update on that, but we got to do a little news first.
0:55.0	And I also should just put my cards on the table.
0:57.5	I've always had a bad a soft spot.
0:59.5	Even when I was a Republican, I had a bad a soft spot.
1:01.8	I loved the Road Trip Journal that everybody else teased you about.
1:06.0	When you got, remember when you got in trouble if they asked you about something, like,
1:08.4	what should we do about overstaying visas?
1:10.3	And you're like, I don't know, man.
1:11.6	That's a tough one I loved that we need more
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