He’s Hispanic so why not?
What?
An actually Hispanic is beating some Mick who culturally appropriated a nickname?
The left reels over cultural appropriation; yet it’s OK for a white guy to appropriate a Hispanic sounding name solely to appeal to Hispanics. So transparent.
To judge by yard signs, Beto has it in the bag. But, you have to account for the fact that conservatives aren’t allowed to have yard signs without inviting property damage.
It wouldn’t be a bad thing for Cruz fans to fear he’s in trouble. We need conservatives to actually get out and vote, and that could lift all boats.
Beto is not Hispanic. He and DeBlazio are guilty of culture appropriation.
This will be a blowout for Cruz.
the dems have had delusions of turning TX blue since that foolish woman that was famous for wearing tennis shoes.
it’s a guaranteed recipe for frustration.
“O’Rourke, who currently represents El Paso as a member of the House, does however maintain a significant advantage among black voters, leading Cruz 70 percent to 15 percent.”
Imagine that,70/15! Who would have thought?
“Hispanic” is meaningless. Cruz is Cuban, which carries little weight to those with Mexican ancestry. It would be like saying that an Irishman was leading with Italian voters because they are “European.”
O’Rourke is a poser, and Cruz has done exactly what Texas voters asked of him six years ago. That is why he is leading. That “Hispanic” voters are leaning to him just reinforces the fact that O’Rourke is not connecting with Democrat leaning voters in Texas.
I expect that O’Rourke will fare about as well as “Abortion Barbie” did.
The Democrats have to be PULLING THEIR HAIR OUT. They flood Texas with Hispanic voter registration drives and what do those ‘damn Hispanics’ do? In 2014, they vote 41% Republican, helping the Dems a bit, but not nearly enough because they also drive the whites to vote 75% Republican (the Dems lost every statewide election by 20 points in 2014).
...and now Cruz, of all people, is doing even better with Hispanics, TOTALLY NEUTRALIZING the Hispanic vote, buy splitting it evenly (so far).
At that point you have whites again at 75% and blacks at 90% Democrat, at best (Trump is cutting into that) - and in a black/white race, blacks are outnumbered 6:1, so even a solid black vote for the Democrats only works if the white vote is less than 60% Republican...and it isn’t, not in Texas.
The bottom line: Even Hispanics are catching on as to just how far Left the Democrat Party is not, with the best example of that being their defense of men and boys being allowed FULL ACCESS to school-aged girls’ locker rooms, if they claim that they happen to ‘feel female’ that day. Blacks also aren’t too hot on that, so expect some drift there too.
And Dems will stay home over their Gov candidate, further widening the gap.