Cruz’s convention stunt hurt him far more in this midterm than he realizes. It was a horrible decision to not support Trump at that moment...we all thought he would...at least I did. Cruz really soured me toward him for a long time when he failed to do the ‘right thing’....Yes I am very happy Cruz won too....but he had to fight for it.....
It would have been a nightmare had Roukie won and he would not have faired so well without the money in his coffers, 70 million!
Cruz’s convention stunt hurt him far more in this midterm than he realizes. It was a horrible decision to not support Trump at that moment...we all thought he would...at least I did. Cruz really soured me toward him for a long time when he failed to do the ‘right thing’....Yes I am very happy Cruz won too....but he had to fight for it.....——
Don’t presume to know how a Texan thinks. We know you eastern folks are all judgemental, thinkin’ you’re all that.... Go ahead and be “soured” against Cruz....we Texans don’t like who you choose either.
We got your New York Mayor...right.......here.
I looked at the Texas races tonight and while we still had “straight party voting” as an option this year, it didn’t 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-O’Rourke, 50.9-48.3).
Cruz 4,221,738 votes
Even land commissioner P-Bush got more votes than any of the other Republicans who weren’t 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 didn’t go “so well” for Democrats either, O’Rourke’s presence didn’t raise up all Democrats. He got nearly 4,000,000 votes (3,999,742) and no other Democrat in the state approached that threshold (candidates Valdez (Gov) 3.5M, Collier (LT) 3.8M, Nelson (AG) 3.86M...