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Jan 28, 2019 · Jan. 28, 2019, 10:34 AM ET. Texas Senate Election Results: Beto O’Rourke vs. Ted Cruz. 8,371,655 votes, 100% reporting (7,949 of 7,949 precincts) * Incumbent. Ted Cruz, the incumbent...
A member of the Democratic Party, O'Rourke was the party's nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2018, a candidate for the presidential nomination in 2020, and the party's nominee for the 2022 Texas gubernatorial election.
- Robert Francis O'Rourke, September 26, 1972 (age 51), El Paso, Texas, U.S.
- Silvestre Reyes
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May 22, 2018 · O’Rourke first mulled a Senate run after Trump’s election, traveling across Texas to sound out voters on the idea. “We never took a poll,” he says. “Nobody from the state party ever ...
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Parker eventually met O’Rourke in an early 2017 secret meetingof current and former Democratic officeholders in Austin, some of them the closest thing the state party had to stars. There were the Castro brothers, both of whom were drawing speculation that they may take on Cruz and lead the party's most aggressive effort to turn the state blue in ye...
For the better part of a year, Cruz largely ignored O'Rourke as the Democrat crisscrossed the state working to visit all 254 counties. That abruptly changed on the night of the primary — March 6 — when Cruz convened Texas reporters on a conference call and let it ripon O'Rourke, blasting him as too liberal for Texas and ushering in a newly aggressi...
Toward the end of a summer dominated by steadily growing, mostly glowing national attention on O'Rourke — countless national publications couldn't resist profiling the former punk rocker turned "Kennedy-esque" political phenom — the Democrat answered a question at a town hall in Houston that would elevate his national profile even further. What did...
While the odds were still stacked against him in Texas, O'Rourke had emerged as the hottest politician in the country. On Oct. 12, the campaign announced he had raised $38 million in the third quarter, the most a U.S. Senate candidate had ever taken in during such a period. With polls showing Cruz opening a more comfortable lead, the consensus in W...
Heading into the final month, it became clear the campaigns were on different tracks when it came to a critical task: getting out the vote. O'Rourke was building a massive in-house operation, complete with hundreds of paid staff, tens of thousands of volunteers and over 700 "pop-up offices" across the state from which those volunteers could phone b...
Cruz's narrow margin was far short of ideal, and the down-ballot losses that came with it stung especially for some Texas Republicans who believe Cruz's campaign could have done more early on to keep O'Rourke from becoming a serious threat. "They could've killed this thing in the cradle if they wanted," one veteran Texas GOP operative vented. Cruz'...
In the days after an election, those connected in any way to the losing side can often turn into a circular firing squad, quick to throw blame and I-told-you-so's at others. Yet Tuesday night and throughout Wednesday, prominent Democrats around the state were unenthusiastic — even privately — to criticize the O’Rourke campaign's execution. There we...
Nov 7, 2018 · Whatever the future holds, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke erased the idea that Texas is a solid Republican red state. The political dawn on Wednesday had a purple hue to...
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Oct 19, 2018 · From CNN's Eric Bradner. Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz had their second — and potentially final — debate for the Texas Senate race Tuesday night....
Nov 9, 2022 · Though he came up short, O’Rourke helped sweep in down-ballot victories across the state and helping Democrats pick up 12 seats in the Texas House, two seats in the Texas Senate and...
