He now comes across as if he’s grappling with his fallen standing in the race and insistent that the task ahead is too urgent for any kind of indulgent introspection
Wake up, people. Photo: Dustin Chambers/Getty Images It’s a quiet but disquietingly hot and soupy Saturday afternoon at an outdoor café table in a Charlottesville shopping center, and Beto O’Rourke is staring off to my right, thinking hard about how to respond after I asked him a classic presidential campaign gotcha question: how his day’s been going.
He now comes across as if he’s both grappling with his fallen standing in the race and insistent that the task ahead is too urgent for any kind of indulgent introspection. He’s been thinking a lot about what this new campaign really means, though, and now, after 15 very slow seconds, he asks whether I’d been present for his public programming earlier in the day.
Yet, he continues, “I also think that there is so much ritual and performance that’s unconnected to this threat that we all willingly — myself included — participate in, as part of what we think is the necessary path to win the nomination, or to become president of the United States. So much of this is not connected to peoples’ day-to-day lives, or the urgency of the threat they see.” He brings up an article he recently read about a worker on the effort against David Duke’s 1990 Senate campaign.
But there’s a new kind of weighted restlessness here too, bordering on exasperation. We’re speaking just before news breaks of the shooting in Odessa and Midland, and his campaign soon after starts selling “THIS IS F*CKED UP” T-shirts, with proceeds going to two gun-control groups.
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