The battle with O’Rourke was poisoned with massive election fraud, even in Texas.
There are plenty of poll workers who despised Cruz enough to “bend the rules” for Beta.
Cruz is less likely to win than Cornyn.
As a leader, Cruz accumulates enemies, even among conservatives who would (or should) otherwise be his most loyal supporters.
Cornyn is nothing. He does nothing, leads nothing. But that’s something, because it means he has no enemies.
So Cornyn can do what Cruz cannot: He can unite the conservative vote who will always vote for him(Cornyn) meanwhile also gaining all of the non-conservative republican vote.
Cruz will guaranteed lose some of the conservative vote, and some of the McCain republican vote.
That’s the harsh reality of being a true conservative.
People are just kidding themselves if they thing Texas is not purplifying, and that Cruz can’t be beat.
Allred will probably be a stronger candidate than Irish Bob the fake Mexican. He is less likely to have photos in a dress, videos falling off a skateboard, or just say something really stupid.
Of course Allred is in the space program. He occupies space, and does nothing else useful. What notable legislation did he get passed? Maybe a proclamation honoring
Ted Cruz should be able to win this, but sadly there’s a of of dems in this State.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is one of the most conservative members of the U.S. senate. I hope he continues to win. I also hope his detractors have a lot of sleepless nights.
The problem with Texas is that Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Houston, and El Paso have people seeing who votes and does not vote and then counting the ballots allegedly cast.
In the primary election, the DA for Harris County (Houston) was told she had already voted and was turned away. How did that happen? You only need to watch the poll watchers to figure that one out.
That's a stretch, but I won't totally discount it. Especially by the time the election rolls around.
"Confirms"?
"Will win"?
What kind of wishful-thinking drivel is this? In any race that isn't a landslide -- and this one is not -- polls don't "confirm" anything and sure as hell don't guarantee anything like "Cruz WILL WIN".
This isn't 2018, Allred is a celebrity media darling but a functional illiterate, and it's hard to imagine so many tickets being split that Trump wins Texas but Cruz loses it.
Texas IS rapidly "purpling", as anyone can see. Trump won it in 2020 by only 5.6% after getting a 9.0% margin in 2016 -- even as in 2020 he did much better with rural Hispanics than expected, yet still had a net loss of about 175,000 votes.
Current and historical election results for Texas
Yeah of course "vote fraud" explains ANY outcome or movement that somebody doesn't like, but a look at the facts shows that Texas' demographics have been deteriorating (and that was even BEFORE the current invasion). Texas' status as a "solid red" state lasted about 20 years, from the mid-1990s through the mid-2010s.
The major metro areas are "blue" and getting worse by the day, and the effect of the massive number of new (potential) voters oozing across the wide-open border remains to be seen.
In the end, Cruz should win by about 5 points (plus or, yes possibly minus) and Trump should win by a little more than Cruz does. It's extremely likely that neither one, especially Cruz, will get a 10-point margin like Abbott or Cornyn got last time they ran.
Keep in mind that the Rats are definitely going to lose the West Virginia Senate seat and might lose Ohio and/or Montana. Some pipe dreamers would add other states. Even just flipping WV makes it a 50-50 Senate.
So realistically the GOP gets +1 and MAYBE more if things go really well. Texas is the ONE state where Democrats have any chance whatsoever of picking up anything in the Senate. Does anyone really think they aren't going to pull out all the stops to try to achieve that?
It probably won't work, but any chatter at this point about polls "confirming" that Cruz "will" definitely win is moronic.