I want a progressive Democrat in there. Not changing my mind. Part of the grassroots Indivisible movement. I'm not using my time voting for a corporate Dem.. .just not

Just to preface my comments below, I don't care about Beto. But I sure as hell will vote for him if he is the eventual Dem nominee in the 2020 general election.
I hope Bernie die-hard supporters have learned at least SOMETHING from the disastrous 2016 elections, ....that primary elections are not the only part that matters; so do general elections. I fear, though, based on so many Bernie-or-bust comments on social media in the past 2 years, I fear they have not learned a thing and only take a perverse smug satisfaction in their hero's primary season opponent's gerryrigged electoral defeat to this existential threat of a Russian puppet we now call president. These Bernie purists had better get their heads out of their asses and realize HRC was not the ultimate enemy, but merely an imperfect candidate....as was Bernie. The mind bogglingly huge Russian social media blitz, it turns out, continues and has targeted the far Left as much as the far Right, as well as various racial and religious demographics. What really lost in 2016 was democracy.

Beto is better than Cruz, but didn't win. Curz won a Senate seat, because fundamentalist conservatives in Texas voted for him. During the Republican nominations, Cruz trailed Trump by almost 10 points in every poll conducted circa March 2016. Trump has had a very low approval rating during his first two years as POTUS compared to other presidents. In other words, Beto lost against Cruz, who lost to Trump, who didn't win the popular vote for president. Gerrymandering won the election for Trump.

The big money Dems who want to run Beto for president are trying to set up the next election for a Republican win, again. Beto is a loser.