Another day, another pearl clutcher. As others have pointed out, Cruz vs Beto was not a typical race. Getting hysterical over this while ignoring Abbot’s race is being purposefully blind to the good news so you can wallow in self-pity over the bad.
Also consider that Trump won blue states the democrats assumed were theirs without question. The GOP has written off blue collar workers and gone headlong into wooing illegal immigrants. The GOP thinking on this is pretty nearly suicidal. The GOP is pursuing money (Wall St) vs pursuing voters. Building a significant part of your party platform around the needs of a handful of billionaires is a perfect recipe for electoral irrelevancy.
Cruz, on the other hand, was nearly invisible this election cycle as far as I can tell. His campaign was actually trying to sell yard signs. He assumed that being a republican incumbent in Texas meant he didn’t have to campaign. Contrast that with the left putting the crown jewels into the O’Rourke campaign.
Have you even observed the influx of Democratic voters in the past decade?