The Club for Growth sees the ex-Texas congressman as a serious threat to Donald Trump, and they're [View all]

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GOP meddles in Democratic nomination with takedown of O'Rourke

The Club for Growth sees the ex-Texas congressman as a serious threat to Donald Trump, and they're treating him accordingly.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/10/beto-orourke-2020-attack-1214805

By ALEX ISENSTADT at Politico

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The decision to go after O’Rourke, whose spokesman didn't respond to a request for comment, reflects a fear that he would mobilize the millennial and suburban voters who powered the Democratic 2018 House takeover and imperil Trump’s reelection. Republicans would be at risk of losing Texas if O'Rourke is the Democratic standard bearer, said Club for Growth President David McIntosh.

McIntosh said his organization recently conducted a survey of battleground states and found O’Rourke running narrowly behind the president. An O’Rourke nomination, he warned, could complicate the electoral fortunes of Republicans up and down the ballot in 2020.

“We watched what he did in Texas in the race against Cruz and realized his potential within the Democratic primary system is enormously larger than what people are giving him credit for right now. We realized, here is a real potential threat because if he is the nominee then Texas suddenly is in play,” McIntosh said.

O'Rourke's narrow loss to Sen. Ted Cruz last year made O'Rourke a liberal cause célèbre. He would almost certainly enter the Democratic nomination fight as a top-tier contender, benefiting from national name recognition and an enormous small-dollar fundraising network.

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