Beto O'Rourke aims to satisfy the hunger for a bridge-building president, but it won't be easy [View all]
KEENE, N.H. — Beto O’Rourke has positioned himself as a voice of reason and healing in a time of rage and rancor. And among the students and local Democrats waiting to see him the other night at Keene State College in New Hampshire, hunger ran deep for precisely that sort of message.
“I don't want somebody who’s wishy-washy in the middle — la-la-la let's unite the country. But I want somebody who's not tearing us apart,” said Roshan Swope, 52, a kindergarten teacher from nearby Harrisville. “I'm looking for somebody whose personality and integrity can make some people in the middle, on either side, pause and give them a second glance.”
That is the niche that O’Rourke, a former three-term congressman from El Paso, is striving to fill.
In a large and growing Democratic field, he’s not the most hard-driving ideological champion, nor the wonkiest or most creative on policy. His pitch, to paraphrase, is that he’s a consensus-seeker.
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If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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