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Jan 28, 2019 · Ted Cruz, the incumbent Republican senator from the Lone Star State, has defeated Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic challenger. The maverick campaign, with Mr. O’Rourke’s tour of all 254...
Nov 12, 2023 · Ted Cruz was narrowly re-elected to a second term in 2018 by 2.6% over popular Democratic opponent Beto O’Rourke— the closest U.S. Senate race in Texas since 1978. At the presidential level, Trump’s 5.6% margin of victory over Biden in 2020 marked the narrowest margin in Texas in the 21st century, and Biden's 46.5% vote share in 2020 was ...
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The contest played out with Cruz portraying himself as a Texas conservative who supported gun owner rights, low taxes, and stated opposition to illegal immigration. O’Rourke was an unabashed...
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Nov 7, 2018 · Cruz garnered 50.9 percent (3,302,820 votes) versus O'Rourke at 47.9 percent (3,076,342 votes), with 84 percent of precincts reporting. 10:10 p.m. Cruz has taken a 2 percentage point lead...
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U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, D-Dallas, is seriously considering taking on the challenge, The Texas Tribune confirmed. His interest in the race was first reported by The Dallas Morning News. The NFL linebacker-turned-attorney beat Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Waco, in ahighly competitive U.S. House raceas part of the blue wave that swept Congress in 2018 in res...
O’Rourke’s 2018 run failed to break his party’s drought in Texas, but Democrats are quick to point out he succeeded in making a statewide race competitive in Texas for the first time in years. His backers stress O’Rourke’s efforts made the rest of the country aware of what’s possible for Democrats in the state, if only they have the resources neede...
Cruz’s own celebrity status has only further solidified since the 2018 election. He is a regular fixture in conservative media circles, never shying from the Fox News hit, and has run for the past three years his own podcast, “Verdict with Ted Cruz.” The podcast is syndicated across the country in partnership with iHeartRadio, the largest radio syn...
Cruz continues to be consistently ranked as one of the most right-voting members of the Senate and is still not afraid to express his frustrations with his own party leadership. He backed a right-wing rebellion within his party against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell last year over Republicans’ inability to recapture the upper chamber, and h...
Nov 7, 2018 · With a loss Tuesday night by about 2.6 percentage points or around 223,000 votes, U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke got closer to toppling an incumbent Republican senator than anyone has in 40 years,...
5 days ago · Salgu Wissmath/San Antonio Express-News. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Saturday warned Texas Republicans that his matchup with U.S. Rep. Colin Allred could be a repeat of his near-loss to Beto O’Rourke ...
