Just 6 months ago Beto O’Rourke was a democratic party rockstar, playing to huge crowds in arenas. Now, like all one-hit wonders, he’s doing the county fair circuit with only a handful of drunk hillbillies in attendance. The 2020 presidential hopeful held a rally in Las Vegas on Friday and almost nobody showed up. It looked more like a Moms Demand Action protest than a major presidential candidate event.
Beto’s campaign sent out this exciting announcement:
Who is excited to see @BetoORourke in #LasVegas tomorrow at #UNLV? We can’t wait to continue the conversation with him. Retweet this Vegas! pic.twitter.com/8EyFdP0hei
— Vegas for Beto (@VegasForBeto) April 26, 2019
And the answer to the question of who was excited to see him was, not many:
Around 35 people here to see Beto O’Rourke at UNLV. The rally was supposed to be held in the courtyard outside, but students told me no one is on campus on Fridays bc it’s mainly a commuter school. pic.twitter.com/zFygogVAe6
— Emma Kinery (@EmmaKinery) April 26, 2019
I think 35 is a very kind estimate. Does that number include the members of the press? Interestingly enough, there does look like a decent media presence, but I can’t find any outlet that actually reported on Beto’s sad UNLV rally.
In reality, it looks like this was nap time for some special needs young people, and Beto came in to wake them up. I bet they were both cranky and fussy.
This almost certainly spells doom for O’Rourke’s campaign. You can get more that 35 college students to show up to anything, especially if you’re giving away stuff. If you set up a keg on a college campus, you could easily get hundreds of dipshit students to show up for a Hitler appreciation rally. O’Rourke is less appealing than Nazis and that should be a clue that it’s time to suspend his campaign.
Faux grass roots gun control group Moms Demand Action often holds rallies in which maybe 3 people show up. For some reason O’Rourke has stolen this model of sadness as the cornerstone of his campaign strategy. MDA ain’t running for president and they are completely financed by billionaire douchebag Michale Bloomberg. O’Rourke may want to find a different template to copy.
In a recent poll, O’Rouke’s level of national support dropped 11% to 4% and New York Magazine wondered: Is Beto Losing His Mojo? Did Mayor Pete Steal It From Him?
Here’s the problem that Beta O’Dork hasn’t yet recognized: when he was taking on Republican Ted Cruz for a Texas Senate seat, liberals were enthralled with him. He had major support from Hollywood and leftist all over the country. Every time he dabbed, skateboarded, or ate at Whataburger, the left swooned. In reality, this had nothing to do with O’Rourke being a charismatic guy or even a competent candidate; it was all about hating on Ted Cruz.
It didn’t matter who was running against Cruz, liberals just wanted the Republican to lose because he’s like kryptonite to them. It could have been a bag of Walmart flip-flops running against Cruz and liberals were going to back it.
When O’Rourke failed to beat Cruz last November, liberals no longer had any use for him, but he didn’t quite get it. After months of being told he was the next JFK, O’Rourke believed the hype and threw his hat in the ring for 2020. Now however, liberals are looking for someone who can beat President Trump and a slacker doofus furry is not going to cut it.
Beto O’Rourke was once a huge rockstar and now he’s opening for MC Hammer at the Clark County Fair. At this point he’s pretty much Smash Mouth and that’s not a good thing.
