I suspect Betamale did help a few dems in Tx, down goes Pete sessions.
>>I suspect Betamale did help a few dems in Tx, down goes Pete sessions.
I looked at the Texas races tonight and while we still had straight party voting as an option this year, it didnt seem to go down ballot.
The governor came out strongest
(Abbott-Valdez 55.9-42.5)
Abbott got 4,614,079 votes
Lt. Governor (Patrick-Collier , 51.3-46.4)
Patrick 4,225,359 votes
AttGen (Paxton-Nelson, 50.6-47.0)
Paxton 4,156,847 votes
US-Senator (Cruz-ORourke, 50.9-48.3).
Cruz 4,221,738 votes
Even land commissioner P-Bush got more votes than any of the other Republicans who werent the Governor
George P. Bush 4,397,621 votes, 53.7%
And that was with some Republicans withholding a vote, choosing the Libertarian, or writing in a name.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/06/us/elections/results-texas-elections.html
Then again, things didnt go so well for Democrats either, ORourkes presence didnt raise up all Democrats. He got nearly 4,000,000 votes (3,999,742) and no other Democrat in the state approached that threshold
Valdez (Gov) 3.5M
Collier (LT) 3.8M
Nelson (AG) 3.86M