However, a new analysis of congressional votes from the non-profit news organisation Capital & Main shows that even as ORourke represented one of the most solidly Democratic congressional districts in the United States, he has frequently voted against the majority of House Democrats in support of Republican bills and Trump administration priorities.
Capital & Main reviewed the 167 votes ORourke has cast in the House in opposition to the majority of his own party during his six-year tenure in Congress. Many of those votes were not progressive dissents alongside other left-leaning lawmakers, but instead votes to help pass Republican-sponsored legislation.
If Beto wasn't as charasmatic as he is, people wouldn't even like him. It's so strange how certain demographics always get away with this.
Yeah, the truth of the matter is that Beto isn't a progressive, in spite of paying lip service to Medicare For All(which at least makes him smarter than most of his ideological brethren). He's consistently been a very middle-of-the-road Democrat. He's not Bernie's ideological peer: he's much closer to Obama and the Clintons. It's why I could never support him in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.