{"id":1095456,"date":"2021-12-07T16:44:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1095456"},"modified":"2021-12-07T16:44:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:44:15","slug":"shots-fired-matthew-dowd-ends-campaign-for-texas-lt-gov-suggests-beto-orourke-should-also-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shots-fired-matthew-dowd-ends-campaign-for-texas-lt-gov-suggests-beto-orourke-should-also-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOTS FIRED: Matthew Dowd Ends Campaign for Texas Lt. Gov., Suggests Beto O\u2019Rourke Should Also Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshots-fired-matthew-dowd-ends-campaign-for-texas-lt-gov-suggests-beto-orourke-should-also-quit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1095456&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.742671009772\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Self-proclaimed &#8216;thought leader&#8217; says &#8216;white male Christians&#8217; should show &#8216;integrity&#8217; by removing themselves from diverse Democratic primary fields<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dowd-final-1.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dowd-final.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dowd-final-300x189.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 December 7, 2021 4:42 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"74.340576496674\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/matthew-dowd-book-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Dowd<\/a> has ended his campaign for lieutenant governor of Texas. The self-proclaimed &#8220;thought leader&#8221; said Tuesday he had &#8220;made the decision from a place of integrity,&#8221; citing a 2018 column he wrote for ABC News urging &#8220;white male Christians&#8221; like himself to &#8220;take it upon ourselves to step back and give more people who don&#8217;t look like us access to the levers of power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A diverse field is now emerging in the Democratic primary for this office,&#8221; said Dowd, who announced his campaign in late September. &#8220;I do not want to be the one who stands in the way of the greater diversity we need in politics.&#8221; Like much of the content in Dowd&#8217;s recently published memoir, <em>Revelations on the River: Healing a Nation, Healing Ourselves<\/em>, the statement reeks of bullshit.<\/p>\n<p>Dowd&#8217;s exit means that only two candidates remain in the Democratic primary for Texas lieutenant governor: Mike Collier, a white man, and Michelle Beckley, a white woman. Dowd has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/abc-chief-political-analyst-tweets-attack-at-gop-rep-elise-stefanik\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">argued<\/a> that electing a woman for the sake of diversity is not necessarily a good thing. The announcement is perhaps best viewed as a thinly veiled attack on Beto O&#8217;Rourke, who is favored to win the Democratic nomination for Texas governor, but is also a white male Christian running in an even more diverse primary field.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Rourke is attempting to achieve a rare <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/beto-born-to-fail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trifecta of political failure<\/a> after mounting an unsuccessful campaign for U.S. Senate and president of the United States. The failed candidate, who previously claimed he was &#8220;born to be&#8221; in politics, believes he can persuade Texans to vote Democratic by promising to take away their f\u2014ing guns. But first he&#8217;ll have to win the party&#8217;s nomination, which will involve destroying the hopes and dreams of two qualified BIPOC candidates: Michael Cooper, a black man, and Deirdre Dickson-Gilbert, a black woman.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if O&#8217;Rourke\u2014and Joe Biden, for that matter\u2014will step aside in the name of &#8220;greater diversity&#8221; and personal &#8220;integrity.&#8221; In fairness, there are few individuals on the planet as humble and principled as Dowd, who once wrote that he sometimes imagines himself as &#8220;having the soul of a prophet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/matthew-dowd-book-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>REVIEW: \u2018Revelations on the River&#8217; by Matthew Dowd<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Self-proclaimed &#8216;thought leader&#8217; says &#8216;white male Christians&#8217; should show &#8216;integrity&#8217; by removing themselves from diverse Democratic primary fields  Andrew Stiles \u2022 December 7, 2021 4:42 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}