One of the many ways Republicans suppress the vote. Good theme to campaign on. He should head to NC next and preach that. NC is on Super Tuesday in 2020.
Looks like Beto has been talking to and listening to Stacey Abrams.
This is a worthwhile campaign message. Will Beto be getting more coverage than everyone else from here on out? What with the Vanity Fair cover, etc., the spectacle has already started.
This is the number one most important issue and it’s one for which I’m forever grateful to Eric Holder for fighting the good fight. I’m extremely pleased to see Beto taking on this issue. Everyone else in the race needs to follow his lead on this if they haven’t already.
I like that message better than this one:
“I think, you know, there are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to vote for an African-American,” Sanders told the Daily Beast.
I guess living in the whitest state in the country for the last 50 years skews one’s perspective.
Slightly OT but: the other day On Morning Joe, Scarborough repeated, at least 3 times, with his trademark sneering arrogance and total certainty, that “Barack Obama has put everything he has behind Beto.” “And thaaat’s whyyyy Barack Obama has put EVERYTHING HE HAS into Beto.” Again and again.
I was unaware of this. The only supporting evidence mentioned was that the former President “sent” his former campaign higher ups to O’Rourke’s campaign. I’m not going to put a ton of stock in what a “former” Republican pontificates about at 6:30am EST, but is there some truth behind this?
To my comment above,I would add that as a newcomer on the national stage that is a safe issue to cut his teeth on and going into Biden/Bernie/Warren’s backyard to do it is a good move too. Wouldn’t hurt to preach that in SC and NV too. Beto is gonna need a win in one those first 4 states.
Republicans have pursued voter ID laws aimed at preventing in-person
voter fraud, including by people in the country illegally. Many experts
say such voter fraud is extremely rare, and critics contend the efforts
are meant to suppress turnout from groups who tend to back Democrats,
including racial minorities and college students.
Fsck you, AP. It’s not “many experts”, it’s every single investigation that’s actually been done. And note that they don’t put a similar qualification on the statement of what the laws are aimed at.
Is Beto as concerned about fighting for Americans with regard to meat and potatoes issues? The press is focused on the spectacle. But when Beto was campaigning for Congress in 2012, he mentioned raising the retirement age and other adjustments to Social Security, in essence negotiating away a working American’s position before the negotiation had even started. What concessions do the Republicans give on this issue? Well, something like, “Our way or the highway.” The Republican position is, “Lower taxes for the rich and corporations, everyone else can ante up.” So I’m not all that star struck by Beto. Having worked for a long time, week in, week out, I want a President who stands up for voters on ALL the issues that matter.
I don’t know about that, but I did watch Morning Joe this morning specifically because Pete Buttigieg was on again. Damn, he looks and sounds sooo good! So confident, and intelligent, and wise beyond his years.
But most importantly, no matter who finally wins the Democratic nomination, we all (even if our preferred candidate didn’t make it) MUST quickly get fully behind and fully support that person. Because, I really don’t know if we can survive a second Trump term.
Currently, he supports the Social Security 2100 Act – along with everybody else, of course, and I mean no discredit to any of them. It’s good that they all got the memo. It’s good that they’re all standing for the good things.
And yes, O’Rourke will be getting more coverage. That’s how it goes. The press has found a star and I say good to anything that takes attention away from Trump.
I’d think you’re getting his position from them. Thanks for that. Though I’m afraid I’ll have to disagree about coverage. And I plan to keep pointing it out.
Good. If any of the other candidates have talked about this yet I haven’t heard it and this is a threshold issue to getting Democrats elected.
But I thought Beto didn’t have any policy ideas… /snark 
Explains all Trump’s “executive time” tweeting lately… it’s all:
It’s the AP, so “both sides”, but I hate this phrasing:
Republicans have pursued voter ID laws aimed at preventing in-person voter fraud, including by people in the country illegally. Many experts say such voter fraud is extremely rare, and critics contend the efforts are meant to suppress turnout from groups who tend to back Democrats, including racial minorities and college students.
It should read:
“Republicans have pursued a strategy of enacting voter ID laws which critics content are meant to suppress voter turnout among racial minorities and college students (which tend to support Democrats) under the guise of preventing voter fraud. Expert consensus is the voter fraud is exceedingly rare. Four cases were prosecuted in the 2016 Presidential election, all of which were Donald Trump supporters.”
AP looks like it’s doing both sides, but they put the thumb on one side of the scale. The voter ID laws are aimed at preventing in-person voter fraud, but it’s just “many experts” and “critics” who say and contend that such fraud is rare and that the laws have a different purpose.
Obama has met with a number of candidates, supposedly giving them advice–but no endorsements.