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

*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…


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