Democrats' Bad Bet On Beto

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Thu, 10/18/2018 - 2:55am

At least when Democrats lost their minds for Jon Ossoff in 2017, the quixotic electoral effort in Georgia had the virtue of novelty. In 2018, their massive bet on Robert "Beto" O'Rourke in Texas might cost them any chance to take control of the Senate. Ossoff was the Young Handsome Democrat Du Jour in 2017, running in a special election to fill the vacant seat of Tom Price, whose short-lived stint as Health and Human Services secretary hardly made it worth the bother.

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