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   *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…   
      
      
   https://freebeacon.com/democrats/zephyr-teachout-failure/   
      
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