{"id":1732215,"date":"2022-11-09T14:17:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1732215"},"modified":"2022-11-09T14:17:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:17:38","slug":"its-official-beto-orourke-set-164-million-democrat-dollars-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-official-beto-orourke-set-164-million-democrat-dollars-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Official: Beto O\u2019Rourke Set $164 Million Democrat Dollars On Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fits-official-beto-orourke-set-164-million-democrat-dollars-on-fire%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=1732215&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--><p>Serial Democrat candidate Robert Francis O\u2019Rourke is no stranger to losing so it\u2019s no surprise that his third attempt in four years to win an election, intended to unseat Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, was a massive failure. <\/p>\n<p>Possibly more surprising than that is, despite O\u2019Rourke\u2019s horrific losing streak, Democrats and their allies in the corrupt corporate media keep propping him with cash and press coverage designed to sustain him in future races.<\/p>\n<p>In just four short years, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/09\/12\/beto-orourke-flip-flops-on-ar-15s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gun-grabbing<\/a> O\u2019Rourke amassed roughly $164 million in donations in exchange for underwhelming political performances, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/25\/sick-sob-beto-orourke-is-such-a-desperate-narcissist-he-hijacked-a-uvalde-tragedy-briefing-for-a-campaign-stunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dramatic and narcissistic outbursts<\/a> at highly inappropriate times, and repeatedly broken promises of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/11\/6\/18070838\/midterm-election-results-texas-beto-orourke-down-ballot-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Beto-led \u201cblue wave\u201d<\/a> in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>During the former congressman\u2019s senatorial run in 2018, he raised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/12\/07\/Beto-ORourke-80-million-raised\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$80 million<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/members-of-congress\/beto-o-rourke\/summary?cid=N00033540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google<\/a> and other leftist donors who wanted to see Big Tech critic Sen. Ted Cruz go. Even after he was nationally hyped as the candidate that would finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/27\/opinion\/sway-kara-swisher-beto-orourke.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cturn Texas blue,\u201d<\/a> O\u2019Rourke lost.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his defeat, media and Democrats hailed O\u2019Rourke as a victor for helping the blue party <a href=\"https:\/\/bppj.berkeley.edu\/2018\/11\/19\/the-beto-effect-what-texas-democrats-gained-from-beto-orourkes-senate-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">make gains in a state and legislature<\/a> that was largely viewed as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/politics\/texas\/article\/Beto-O-Rourke-exposed-a-blue-spine-across-the-13399110.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">undeniably red.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/opinion\/commentary\/ct-perspec-wilhelm-heather-beto-orouke-ted-cruz-1021-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cembarrassing\u201d<\/a> lead-up to his even more embarrassing loss, O\u2019Rourke scrounged up enough attention from his party and the propaganda press to haul in another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/2020-presidential-race\/beto-o-rourke\/candidate?id=N00033540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$17.5 million<\/a> for a presidential run he said he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2019\/03\/beto-orourke-cover-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cborn to be in.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took less than nine months on the campaign trail before O\u2019Rourke backed out due to a lack of support and lack of funding. <\/p>\n<p>One year later, O\u2019Rourke was back in TV advertisements and Twitter feeds with promises of <a href=\"https:\/\/betoorourke.com\/issue\/defend-reproductive-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abortion for all<\/a> and a crackdown on legal gun owners. <\/p>\n<p>This time, O\u2019Rourke raised more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/politics\/vote-texas\/beto-orourke-democrat-fundraising-record\/269-aa366bd1-da05-4ce9-a475-1b33f3259e5e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$66 million<\/a> in an attempt to evict Abbott from the Texas governor\u2019s mansion. That\u2019s the most money any Democrat gubernatorial candidate in the Lone Star State has ever secured from donors. That\u2019s likely why Beto\u2019s third race still caught the eye of several corrupt corporate media outlets which were all too willing to shower the Democrat with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/15\/us\/politics\/beto-orourke-fundraising.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">positive coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/11\/07\/beto-orourke-texas-governor-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">went so far as to claim that<\/a> the 2022 O\u2019Rourke \u201cembodies Democrats\u2019 unrealized gains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since Texas voters had clearly rejected O\u2019Rourke before, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/11\/01\/greg-abbott-beto-orourke-governor-campaign-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one-third<\/a> of his funds were raised outside of Texas. Overall, at least 46 percent of the \u201cBeto For Texas\u201d cash flow was sustained by out-of-state donors. <\/p>\n<p>Even after losing three back-to-back elections, O\u2019Rourke, sitting on a pile of political cash, admitted he\u2019s not ready to leave the politics game yet. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what my role or yours will be going forward, but I\u2019m in this fight for life,\u201d O\u2019Rourke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/11\/08\/beto-orourke-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> during his concession speech on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a bold claim for a guy who just lost by more than 10 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part? There\u2019s nothing stopping Democrats and the media from using their dollars and influence to launch O\u2019Rourke into elections again. They did it with Stacey Abrams and now they\u2019ve showered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O\u2019Rourke amassed roughly $164 million in exchange for underwhelming political performances and narcissistic outbursts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":1732218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732215","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1732218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}