Vanity Fair Author: Beto ‘Has That Gleam in His Eye’

EXCERPT:

HAGAN: “You know, at that point it was not yet clear what he was going to do and I had sort of boxed him in, ‘Tell me what you’re going to do. Tell me what you’re going to do’ and finally when he just sort of let himself tell me that he was going to run for president, I think he, you could see the charisma that he has on stage, that whatever you get a camera on this guy, he has this charisma, that was that moment where he felt he had some kind of destiny. He has that gleam in his eye. Somebody, Evan Smith at The Texas Tribune said, ‘Seeing him, it’s like a Jesus Christ Superstar seeing this guy in front of people.’ He’s got that celebrity aura about him and in that moment he was owning that. You could see ‘I want to do this. I feel I have this destiny.’  Now, we’ll see how long that lasts.”

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