Beto O’Rourke has decided whether he will run for president, he said Wednesday, but declined to say what that decision is
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“Amy and I have made a decision about how we can best serve our country,” the former Texas congressman said in a prepared statement about his deliberations with his wife. “We are excited to share it with everyone soon.”O’Rourke, who is widely expected to enter the 2020 presidential campaign, has been emailing supporters in recent days and speaking privately with potential staffers.
Yet O’Rourke has done little to prepare traditional infrastructure for a presidential campaign. More established Democrats such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren , Kamala Harris , Kirsten Gillibrand and Cory Booker have been preparing to run for months, if not years. On Wednesday, a campaign formed to draft O’Rourke into the presidential race invited supporters to sign up for alerts in anticipation of O’Rourke’s looming announcement.
"We're anticipating a bit of pandemonium when Beto announces, but in a good way," Draft Beto co-founder Nate Lerner said in a prepared statement. "We want to organize that energy and point it in the right direction."
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