Zephyr Teachout Challenges Beto O'Rourke for Title of Biggest Dem Failure

[Merry Christmas]

*Among active politicians. Hillary Clinton still number one overall.

Zephyr Teachout has conceded defeat in yet another campaign for
public office. The perennial candidate's recently announced
withdrawal from the New York attorney general's race means Teachout
has a shot at stealing Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke's title as the
biggest failure among active Democratic politicians.

Teachout, a heavily credentialed attorney with degrees from Duke and
Yale, announced her candidacy for attorney general less than a month
ago. She ran for the same office in 2018 but lost the Democratic
primary to the eventual winner, Letitia James, who recently
announced she was seeking reelection after abruptly ending her
campaign for governor.

"Attorney General Letitia James is an exceptional leader and
dedicated public servant," Teachout said in a statement on Sunday.
"Given her decision to seek re-election, I will be immediately
suspending my own campaign."

In addition to her two failed campaigns for attorney general,
Teachout also ran a failed campaign for the U.S. House of
Representatives in 2016, losing to Republican John Faso by more than
8 percentage points in New York's 19th Congressional District. Prior
to that, Teachout ran unsuccessfully for governor of New York in
2014, when she lost the Democratic primary to Andrew Cuomo by nearly
30 percentage points.

This impressive string of political failures makes Teachout a viable
candidate to surpass O'Rourke as the Democratic Party's biggest
failure. O'Rourke has failed fewer times but has done so on a much
larger stage. After losing his U.S. Senate race against Sen. Ted
Cruz (R., Texas) in 2018, he subsequently launched a presidential
campaign by declaring he was "born to be in it" on the cover of
Vanity Fair. Beto dropped out of the 2020 Democratic primary several
months before the first votes were cast.

O'Rourke is currently seeking a third humiliating defeat in the 2022
Texas gubernatorial race. He is attempting to persuade voters—in
Texas—to back his candidacy by promising to take away their guns.
Matthew Dowd, a self-proclaimed "thought leader" who recently ended
his campaign for Texas lieutenant governor, has suggested O'Rourke
should drop out of the race in the name of "greater diversity."

O'Rourke should reclaim his title following his loss in 2022, but
for now it would appear that Teachout has the edge when it comes to
Democratic failures. Of course, we are only talking about active
politicians, because we all know who holds the title of biggest
Democratic failure of all time…


https://freebeacon.com/democrats/zephyr-teachout-failure/