Nia Malika Henderson: Beto O’Rourke Is ‘Going to Have to Grapple with’ Issues on Race and Gender

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HENDERSON: “You had Joe Lockhart there said that the real stars of 2018 were folks like Andrew Gillum, folks like Stacey Abrams, but I haven’t seen Stacey Abrams on the cover of 'Vanity Fair.' I haven’t seen her get the kind of treatment that -- that Beto O’Rourke has got so far. And I think that has a lot do with race and gender and it’s something I think that Beto O’Rourke is going to have to grapple with, the idea of how is it that someone who did raise $80 million lost against Ted Cruz, how is it that all of the sudden he thinks he’s qualified or has enough accomplishments to be president? I don’t think he would get the same sort of confidence and sort of embrace for -- for a woman, or African-American, or minority candidate.”