Beto O'Rourke has had a somewhat stumbling start
MILWAUKEE — A more disciplined candidate might not have been so sloppy, with months to prepare and adoring crowds waiting.
“For all the fanfare, the band was playing a pretty flat tune,” Dave Nagle, a former congressman and Iowa state Democratic Party chairman, said after watching O’Rourke address a large rally from the bed of a red Ford Ranger in Waterloo, Iowa. “There’s just no substance to it.”Sign Up Hours later, O’Rourke was apologizing for ham-handedly joking about his wife, Amy, raising their children “sometimes with my help.”
Yet he was still confronting past comments as recently as Sunday — after drawing criticism for remarks printed on the cover of Vanity Fair in which O’Rourke said before entering the race that he was “just born to be in it.” Campaign buttons are for sale outside a Beto O'Rourke campaign event in Washington, Iowa, on Friday. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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