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A host of prominent celebrities waded into the midterm elections over the past few months to lend their endorsements mostly to far-left Democratic candidates.However, most of these celebrity-endorsed candidates lost their midterm election races. Here are the results of some of the most high-profile endorsements.Taylor SwiftIn perhaps one of the most noticed celebrity endorsements of the midterms, Taylor Swift broke her long political silence to endorse former Tennesse Gov. Phil Bredesen over GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn in Tennessee’s Senate race.“As much as I have in the past and would like to continue voting for women in office, I cannot support...

Stewart-Haas Racing's Kevin Harvick's guaranteed place in the NASCAR Cup Series championship shootout at Homestead has been lost due to a L1 penalty incurred at Texas Motor Speedway.

Project Veritas dropped an undercover video earlier Tuesday showing election officials admitting “tons” of non-citizens are voting in Texas. O’Keefe’s undercover video caught the attention of Texas Governor Gregg Abbott. “This will be investigated,” Abbott said of the non-citizens being encouraged to vote by election officials. In the video, a Project Veritas undercover journalist asked a Texas election official if her “DREAMer” boyfriend can vote as long as he is registered to vote and has a driver’s license. “Yeah okay” the election official responded. “If he has his ID that’s all he needs. If he’s registered,” the election official said...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A former Navy SEAL was elected Tuesday night to become Texas' youngest congressional representative. Dan Crenshaw will replace outgoing Republican Rep. Ted Poe in U.S. House District 2. Crenshaw, 34, was a first-time political candidate who learned some political lessons early on after being forced into a runoff, finishing second by just 155 votes. The Republican went on to win the nomination to face off with Democratic challenger Todd Litton for the open seat. A second dose of political reality set in over the weekend when his war injury became the butt of a joke on...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) defeated Democrat Beto O’Rourke on Nov. 6 and said he would "represent every Texan."

MSNBC anchor Brian Williams apologized on behalf of his network after it broadcast a vulgarity from Texas Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke. "I'm so f—-ing proud of you guys," O'Rourke said during his concession speech on Tuesday night after losing his election to Ted Cruz. The curse word was not censored on MSNBC. Sorry for the F-bomb," Williams said after the remark. "We have no control of what's in the concession speeches." Fox News and CNN were not broadcasting O'Rourke's concession speech.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) fended off Democrat challenger Robert Francis O’Rourke to win re-election in a high-profile Senate race Tuesday, but establishment media pundits, Hollywood celebrities, and liberal activists did not lose hope — they had now moved on to dreams of “Beto 2020.” Cruz finished a surprising second in the 2016 Republican presidential primary and began the Senate race as a prohibitive favorite. However, O’Rourke visited fiercely conservative parts of the state that his party had long since given up on, while shattering fundraising records despite shunning donations from outside political groups and pollster advice. Cruz argued that his...

Allred leads 52 to 47 in Dallas County Sessions leads in smaller Collin County This one will be close about 56% of precincts reporting in Dallas county

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas outperformed pro-abortion Democratic challenger Rep. Beto O’Rourke and won a Senate victory despite O’Rourke raking in unprecedented campaign contributions and a love-affair from the mainstream media. The abortion activist had raised nearly $40 million in the third quarter of 2018, smashing the all-time record for most raised in one quarter, previously set at $22 million. Comparatively, Cruz raised roughly $12 over the same period. After O’Rourke revealed he wouldn’t be sharing any of the war chest he amassed with the other Democrats in tight races, Cruz took a jestful shot at the congressman, saying...

Republican Ted Cruz of Texas is projected to win re-election to a second term in the U.S. Senate, emerging victorious from the toughest political fight of his career, according to NBC News.

Liberal Hollywood actor Jim Carrey and GOP Texas Senator Ted Cruz engaged in a contentious back-and-forth on Twitter Monday, just hours before voters in the state head to polling stations to help determine Cruz’s fate in the Senate. Cruz is holding a slight lead in his race against Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke in the Lone Star State, according to the recent polls. So Carrey, a vocal liberal who recently urged Americans to ‘stop apologizing’ and ‘say yes to socialism,' got into the fray by tweeting his support for the Democrat. “Go Beto! Go Democrats! Vote like there’s no tomorrow,” the...

Orourke 51 Cruz 49 with about 2% reporting

The Republican Jewish Coalition is calling for the resignation of seven Democratic members of Congress whom it claims are "connected" to controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. The group describes him as a "known anti-Semite." The lobbying group on Tuesday called for the following lawmakers to step down: Reps. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.; Barbara Lee, D-Calif.; Maxine Waters, D-Calif.; Danny Davis, D-Ill.; Andre Carson, D-Ind.; Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.; and Al Green, D-Texas.

Well....Louis Farrakhan & Andrew Gillum (Running as Democrat for Florida Governorship) are truly "Two Birds Of A feather" that have come together in Lock-Step agreement. They are both Anti Jewish, Anti Israel & Anti Termites. Amazing how they both equate Jews with Termites. "Golly Gee"....what a wonderful pair of Black Racist Haters these two dudes are!!! I am sure the Jews in Broward County, Florida will just love these hate rants!!! Go figure!!! folks, cast your precious Florida votes for Republican, Ron DeSantis for Florida, Governor

Volunteers used every bit of the daylight Monday to knock on doors before polls open in the morning. In Collin County, the GOP set a 72-hour goal of knocking on 13,401 doors, with close to 10,000 of that total on Monday alone. It kept a phone on the ear of Gabriela Perdichizzi all day. "We're covering all corners of the county," Perdichizzi said. "We got people walking in McKinney, people in Plano, Allen and Frisco." One day after state representative Jeff Leach (R-Plano) put out a call for block walkers during a Ted Cruz rally in Fairview, areas across the...

Awww how adorable, Beto O’Rourke voted and so did his wife … wait, and his kids?

Larry Schweikart: Hearing two busses near TX border stopped with "Beto" signs, full of illegals, each had $100 and were headed to the polls.

The government agency that oversees border patrol is planning an Election Day "crowd control exercise" today in El Paso, Texas, near a Hispanic neighborhood with about 100 residents. The exercise is being conducted in the hometown of Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic Senate candidate who's running a tight race against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. The Customs and Border Protection agency has scheduled the exercises at 10 a.m. Mountain Time, according to a statement. The exercise, in El Paso's oldest neighborhood, is being called a "mobile field force demonstration." Media were invited to attend the event. The neighborhood is near an area...

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin blasted "Saturday Night Live" creator and producer Lorne Michaels after a comic on the show made fun of a Texas GOP congressional candidate who lost an eye serving in Afghanistan.Comedian Pete Davidson joked about retired Navy SEAL Dan Crenshaw's eye patch, saying he looks like a pirate in a pornographic film.Davidson, 24, giggled afterwards, saying, "Sorry. I know he lost his eye in war, or whatever." Read Full Article While Crenshaw said Monday on "Fox & Friends" that he would not demand an apology from Davidson or the show, Palin fired back at Michaels on...

Texas U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-TX) is engaged in a tough general election challenge to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), but for now, he's ruling out a run for president in 2020.