Posted on 09/20/2018 12:20:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Two politicians not known for brevity will face off at 6 p.m on statewide television.
When Republican incumbent U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and his Democratic opponent, Beto O’Rourke, face off in their first debate Friday, watch as two long-winded politicians struggle for brevity. This past weekend, a reporter asked Cruz a simple question about Hurricane Harvey. His answer lasted 3 minutes, 57 seconds—which is forever on television. O’Rourke recently used 3 minutes, 38 seconds to give his defense of National Football League players taking a knee during the national anthem to protest police violence against blacks. The abridged version of the candidates of verbosity will be the time limits set by the debate moderators. Expect the overtime buzzer to be sounding.
Cruz will have a bit of an advantage, because CNN hosted him in a series of debates with independent Bernie Sanders in 2017. And watch as Cruz tries to stamp O’Rourke as a Sanders-style liberal out of touch with mainstream Texans. A preview of what that might look like:
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Although some of his issues are similar to Sanders’s—such as a desire for universal health care—O’Rourke has tried to run above partisanship and attacks on Cruz, making the case that the election is about values, all the while firing up his Democratic base by opposing issues pushed by President Trump. O’Rourke has said he would vote to impeach Trump if it came up in the House while he is serving, but he has reserved judgment on what he would do if the case came to him in the Senate....
(Excerpt) Read more at texasmonthly.com ...
Yep, big mistake by Beto. He will get destroyed in a debate with Cruz. Not that that will affect the agenda of the socialists.
TX debate will be about 90 minutes before Trump in MO.
True. Glad there is 3 debates scheduled.
Not exactly. Trump is at 6:30 p.m. Central time, this debate is at 6 p.m. Central time.
Beto may try to get another close relative to bail him out of trouble...
What relative...his daddy?
These days, Soros is his daddy.
“Friday’s First Debate Between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke”
let’s hope Ted does WAY better than he did against Trump
Well, he does have the driving drunk and fleeing the scene of an accident part down pat. All this is left is to kill a mistress.
Ted did fine in 2016, coming in second against a field of 18 candidates. Trump was more of a force of nature than a regular candidate and the perfect opposition to the Hillary machine. Any other year Cruz would’ve probably won the nomination.
Yep. I looked up his record. Granted, he was a kid, but still...I mean, look at what Judge Kavanaugh is going through, which is a made up Fantasy from 36 YEARS ago!
O’Rouke said loading cotton gins, not picking cotton. About a dime’s difference in general...
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