Reality bites Beto O'Rourke after his high-flying kickoff
DES MOINES, Iowa — Between the prom proposal from a young admirer, the long lines for photographs and the conservative tracker recording his every word, Beto O’Rourke had all the hallmarks of a top-tier candidate during his latest swing through Iowa.
And while O’Rourke sprinted from college campuses and coffee shops to house parties across Iowa, a more established contender, Bernie Sanders, was drawing even larger audiences here. O’Rourke is hardly teetering, with a national donor list, sustained media interest and the ability to fill rooms. But his crowds were rarely so overwhelming that O’Rourke felt compelled to stand on countertops or bars, as he did when he first visited the state last month. One time he did, speaking from a tree stump in Marshalltown, it appeared largely in homage to the meme.
Last week, O’Rourke began the work of digging in. While his campaign was opening an office in Des Moines and beginning to hire staff, O’Rourke was adapting his populist message for a small-town tavern in rural Carroll, lamenting that Democrats “used to be the party for rural America.”
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