Why two former Beto O'Rourke staffers now say they're with Bernie Sanders

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12. I believe these excerpts say a lot:

O’Rourke’s campaign, which has hired some prominent former Sanders aides, noted that Young and Lanning were just two of 211 paid student workers, or “less than 1 percent.”

People will move from campaign to campaign for various reasons. While I have no intention to insult these young people, in chess terminology this is the equivalent of sacrificing a couple of pawns for a rook and a bishop.

The messaging from Beto's campaign was also positive and unifying:

Though not, apparently, with the candidate himself. Evans, the Beto for America spokesman, said O’Rourke remains thankful that the young liberals “were part of the largest grassroots campaign Texas had ever seen.”

“He is grateful that they played a role in increasing voter turnout of young people in Texas by 508% and in securing the most votes a Democrat has ever received in Texas history,” Evans said.