Beto came dangerously close to Canuck Ted.
These guys are probably looking at their districts and seeing 30% more Hispanics living there over the past few years. They can read the writing on the wall.
Yep Beto came close but I think that speaks more
about Cruz that the overall Dem chances.
Blaming voters who were physically attacked by a leftist mob at Trump’s Chicago rally was a shit head move which is not going away here in Texas.
He rebranded himself at that moment.
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz: ‘Texas is a battleground’ in 2020
He predicted that President Donald Trump would still win Texas, though by a closer margin than his 9-point victory in 2016 over Democrat Hillary Clinton. He likewise said Sen. John Cornyn would be reelected, despite facing what’s expected to be his toughest challenge in years.
While Trump’s campaign said in May that Texas is “not a swing state,” Cornyn and others have been sounding the alarm for months that Republicans need to be on guard. Cruz said that if Republicans are going to prevail, they must communicate their message to voters and turn out at the ballot box.
“If the left shows up in massive numbers and everybody else doesn’t, that’s how we end up with an incredibly damaging election,” he said, adding that “if we lose Texas, it’s game over” in the presidential race.
Leveraging the anti trump and anti Cruz hate that had their base motivated and a lot of outside money they got close in an off year election...
While individual districts will swing TX isn’t blue yet... however if they don’t get their voting percentages up the Dems will get a statewide win sooner or later. Lot of complacency down there.
Beto spent the most money in the history of Senate campaigns in an off election year, against an unpopular incumbent and still couldn’t win.