Beto trying to win by appealing to out of state voters?

Resurgent:
The closer we get to election day, the more hyping of Beto O’Rourke we can expect from the national media. He’s the new Barack Obama, only he’s not running in Illinois. And they want him to run for President—except, of course, he can’t do that unless he wins. And the way he’s running his campaign, Texas Republican strategists say he’s winnowing his chances of replacing Sen. Ted Cruz come January.

Consider this: Right now, according to the Real Clear Politics polling average, Cruz leads Beto by 7 points.

But it wasn’t always this way: One poll in August had Beto just 1 point behind Cruz; another put him just 4 points behind.

What’s changed?

Beto’s whole strategy it seems.

Whereas in August, he was doing a ton of on-the-ground-campaigning in places like Laredo, McAllen and Brownsville – areas that are all Hispanic-heavy—more recently, the Beto Male has switched to doing CNN town halls, appearing on Ellen, skateboarding across stages, and definitely, definitely focusing on national level issues like impeachment, single payer health care, and NFL players taking a knee.

Beto seems to have singularly failed to grasp that while this may be a great strategy for hauling in more cash—which theoretically could be used to propel him to a win in the last days of the campaign—it’s a bad strategy for shoring up support from basically the only voters who can theoretically give him a win: Hispanic voters who lean Democratic but who are not automatic “gimme” votes and who did not support Beto in the Texas primary.

The sad fact for Beto is that there are not enough rich, white liberals in Texas to propel him to a win singlehandedly; if he’s going to do it, he needs these voters. And while he was focusing more on them and their issues in August, it looks like a lot has changed since then—including in the polls.
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Ultimately, say Republican strategists, this is why Beto will lose.

He’s raised a ton of money. He has massive national visibility.

But people in LA watching CNN can’t vote in Texas, and a bunch of the people who do vote in Texas and should more naturally fall into his camp than Cruz’s are likely to just stay home because he hasn’t given them a real reason to vote on them.

He’s not talking about their issues. He’s talking like he’s running in a national Democratic presidential primary—which at this rate, he’ll never, ever reach.
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He appears to be back where he was before he spent all that money.  And the money may have pushed him into embracing the out of state issues that matter to those making the contributions.  He seems to be running a Barack Obama campaign of hope and change BS that does not resonate with many Texas voters.

His campaign is now being sued for spamming Texas voters with text messages in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.  I have gotten a few of these messages which slowed down after I told them that based on the Democrat mistreatment of Kavanagh I would never vote for anyone who would put them in the majority.

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