This Rich, All-White, All-Male Ticket For Democrats In 2020 Reportedly In The Works.
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DIVERSITY! This Rich, All-White, All-Male Ticket For Democrats In 2020 Reportedly In The Works
The party obsessed with racial and gender diversity is ironically headed for a rich, all-white, cisgendered male ticket in 2020. Former Vice President Joe Biden is looking to tap Democrat darling and Congressman Robert "Beto" O'Rourke as his number two on a potential 2020 run, sources told the Associated Press.
Biden, 76, is looking at O'Rourke, 46, mainly to offset his old age, the report said. If Biden were to win in 2020, he'd be the oldest man ever elected to the presidency. Ronald Reagan was elected at 73, holding the current record.
The hypothetical ticket would have precisely zero intersectionality points — which are critical to the left. Biden and O'Rourke are both white, male, heterosexual, "cisgender" and wealthy.
Although O'Rourke has been accused of trying to pass himself off as Hispanic per his "Beto" nickname, the former Senate contender is of Irish decent. According to The New York Times, the political heavyweight's family "came over from Ireland four generations ago to work on the railroad."
"O’Rourke had a 2015 net worth of about $9 million, ranking 51st out of 435 House members, according to the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics. That’s more-than double the $3.8 million worth of his Republican opponent, Sen. Ted Cruz, who ranked 41st of 100 senators. O’Rourke and his family live in a hilltop, Hacienda-style, 4,700 square-foot home in El Paso, while Cruz, his wife and daughters have a well-appointed condo in an elegant corner of Houston."
Cannot make this stuff up. Outstanding
DIVERSITY! This Rich, All-White, All-Male Ticket For Democrats In 2020 Reportedly In The Works
The party obsessed with racial and gender diversity is ironically headed for a rich, all-white, cisgendered male ticket in 2020. Former Vice President Joe Biden is looking to tap Democrat darling and Congressman Robert "Beto" O'Rourke as his number two on a potential 2020 run, sources told the Associated Press.
Biden, 76, is looking at O'Rourke, 46, mainly to offset his old age, the report said. If Biden were to win in 2020, he'd be the oldest man ever elected to the presidency. Ronald Reagan was elected at 73, holding the current record.
The hypothetical ticket would have precisely zero intersectionality points — which are critical to the left. Biden and O'Rourke are both white, male, heterosexual, "cisgender" and wealthy.
Although O'Rourke has been accused of trying to pass himself off as Hispanic per his "Beto" nickname, the former Senate contender is of Irish decent. According to The New York Times, the political heavyweight's family "came over from Ireland four generations ago to work on the railroad."
"O’Rourke had a 2015 net worth of about $9 million, ranking 51st out of 435 House members, according to the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics. That’s more-than double the $3.8 million worth of his Republican opponent, Sen. Ted Cruz, who ranked 41st of 100 senators. O’Rourke and his family live in a hilltop, Hacienda-style, 4,700 square-foot home in El Paso, while Cruz, his wife and daughters have a well-appointed condo in an elegant corner of Houston."
