The logic behind Beto —

I hear people like “why did Beto almost win and that makes him Presidential timber but Stacey Abrams almost won and nothing”

Well they had two close but related strategies for putting new energies in establishment harness: she maxed black enthusiasm while trusting a white liberal base to go along and almost won in Georgia, the best state for the strategy; he aimed to peel the alienated college-class suburbs while maintaining a solid base in traditional D environments and almost made it in Texas, possibly the most challenging state for that strategy

His primary gambit has to be to follow in Biden’s shadow and be the answer to every “I wish Joe but young/without the baggage/better with the modern base”, the next generation Bill Clinton

(But missing the part where Clinton had party machine control and even extraparty- Not only was Bill denouncing Sister Soulja but in the background other elements of the Clinton machine – Hillary and the Neera Tanden-equivalents esp. – were tamping down third-party radicalism by making sure any organization that tolerated it was cut off from the Dems’ donor base)