Cruz getting 85% of the vote is nothing surprising, its a PRIMARY and he’s the incumbent for his party.
Speaking of Primaries.... lets look at the 2012 primaries.... shall we?
The Democratic primary in 2012 only attracted a total of less than 250k democrats bothered to vote.... 2018?? The Democrats put up over 1 Million votes... more than a 4 fold increase.
While republicans increased too, from about 1.1M to 1.5M, which is good for Cruz, it doesn’t equate to a cakewalk for him.
The sad reality in TX is, MOST PEOPLE DON’T VOTE! Turnout is sub 40%.... even in a presidential year... with that kind of turnout, and a far more motivated and organized D than R... the D definitely are likely to sneak out a win as long as the apathy of the right continues...
That said, I do expect Cruz to win, but I don’t think its going to be remotely by the margin it should be.
I was making the point that Ted Cruz won by such a huge margin that there was no need for a high turn out in the GOP primaries. Usually, close contests bring in a higher turnout, yet Cruz managed to get over twice the votes that O’Rourke got in the primaries even with the GOP contest not close.