Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke on Sunday said he doesn’t believe anyone can be “born” to hold political office, days after raising eyebrows for comments he made to Vanity Fair in which he suggested he was destined to run for president. The magazine’s recent profile of O’Rourke quoted him as saying he was “just born to be in it” while discussing the 2020 presidential race. HuffPost’s Amanda Terkel argued the remark highlighted a sense of entitlement that only a straight, white male could have the luxury of possessing. Asked on Sunday about the controversial comment, O’Rourke appeared to have trouble recalling whether he had actually said it. “Man, I hope I didn’t say that,” O’Rourke told reporters in Wisconsin, according to NBC News.

Source: Huffington Post March 17, 2019 21:22 UTC