How the Media Fell Out of Love with Beto

Peter Hamby: “You know your press hasn’t been great when the best piece written about your campaign in some time was bylined by your ex-girlfriend. But that’s what happened to Beto O’Rourke last week.”

“The Washington Post Magazine published a lengthy essay written by O’Rourke’s college girlfriend Sasha Watson, about their very 1990s relationship, complete with vintage pictures of the now-presidential candidate looking exactly as you’d expect at the time: holding a guitar, baggy jeans, a buzzcut, and the kind of brooding face he probably wore while listening to Pavement albums and scribbling in his journal.”