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TexasTowelie

(112,314 posts)
Mon Apr 29, 2019, 03:59 AM Apr 2019

'My top 3 changes every day': San Francisco voters turn out to hear Beto O'Rourke's 2020 pitch

SAN FRANCISCO – Though the line of people snaking outside the Irish Cultural Center late Sunday morning kept growing, few “Beto 2020’’ shirts could be spotted in the crowd.

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke was making his first appearance in famously liberal San Francisco since launching his campaign last month, but the folks coming out to hear him speak were not yet ready for a lovefest.

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“There’s so many right now, I’m just trying to find out as much as I can about each one. My top 3 list changes every day,’’ said Christian Marquez, 35, a compliance officer for a startup who listed O’Rourke third behind Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.

By the time O’Rourke was done delivering his 25-minute talk and answering questions for another 25 minutes, he may have moved up on Marquez’s rankings. Probably also sold a few more T-shirts.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/28/beto-orourke-anti-donald-trump-san-francisco-voters/3612733002/

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