blah blah blah.
None of the GOP candidates carried the votes that Abbott got.
To flip that coin, none of the DNC candidates carried the votes that O’Dork got.
I looked at the Texas races tonight and while we still had “straight party voting” as an option this year, it didn’t seem to go “down ballot”.
The governor came out strongest
(Abbott-Valdez 55.9-42.5)
Abbott got 4,614,079 votes
Lt. Governor (Patrick-Collier , 51.3-46.4)
Patrick 4,225,359 votes
AttGen (Paxton-Nelson, 50.6-47.0)
Paxton 4,156,847 votes
US-Senator (Cruz-O’Rourke, 50.9-48.3).
Cruz 4,221,738 votes
Even land commissioner P-Bush got more votes than any of the other Republicans who weren’t the Governor
George P. Bush 4,397,621 votes, 53.7%
And that was with some Republicans withholding a vote, choosing the Libertarian, or writing in a name.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/06/us/elections/results-texas-elections.html
Then again, things didn’t go “so well” for Democrats either, O’Rourke’s presence didn’t raise up all Democrats. He got nearly 4,000,000 votes (3,999,742) and no other Democrat in the state approached that threshold
Valdez (Gov) 3.5M
Collier (LT) 3.8M
Nelson (AG) 3.86M