Posted on 11/15/2018 1:38:28 PM PST by conservative98
Candidate Party Votes Pct.
Ted Cruz* Rep. 4,244,204 50.9%
Beto O'Rourke Dem. 4,024,777 48.3
Neal Dikeman Lib. 65,240 0.8
8,334,221 votes, 100% reporting (7,949 of 7,949 precincts)
* Incumbent
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Yes, but it would have been half a million votes less close. I voted for Cruz but I wasn’t as excited about it as I was in 2012. I suspect many Texans feel the same way.
We can’t be committing political suicide by drawing the line before Ted Cruz, that’s going to lead to bad results in general. Okay, the guy is not Mr Congeniality, but he is by any recent standards a reliable conservative.
Beto, or not Beto, that is the question.
I’m worried. I read Williamson County, just north of Austin’s Travis county is undergoing a huge housing boom and I know the people flooding in will be transplants from California and other blue states. The lady that ran against John Carter was blanketing the airwaves with ads. She lost, but it was much closer than it could be.
Cruz should have been able to put Beto away. The democrats have learned that if they spend 5:1 or 6:1 against a weak Republican, they have a good chance to win.
Cruz didn’t do much to grow goodwill with his antics in 2016 and it looked like some Texans held grudges. Moreover, he was busy with the Kavanaugh hearings and wasn’t on the ground in Texas like Beto was.
Blue areas of TX are probably going to grow like mold in a petri dish unfortunately. They did it in Virginia over the last 10 years.
Beatoff O’Dorke.
This is TERRIFYING. THAT close to disaster!
Could say that about almost any republican.
The voters haven’t forgotten about 2016
Ted did some really dirty deeds in 2016, it certainly tainted him enough to give the democrats a chance with that Beta guy. I hope it was worth it to him.
Think about it, if it wasn’t for Ted Cruz, Candidate Trump would have never hired Paul Manafort, which would have never gave us Mueller, because there would have not been anyone slimy enough to investigate. Thanks Ted, the “True Conservative outsider, and GOPe Establishment Choice (TM)”
I don’t know about that.
There were tons of yankee dollars funneled to the democrat and that definitely translated into a lot of votes, legal and illegal, for Betaboy.
2016 was the reason Ted had a hard time, the Money that Betaboy had was the catalyst. If Ted was solid and true, all the money in the world would not have helped Betaboy. He would have been squished like the leftist cockroach that he is.
What made voters repulsive about Ted Cruz? One answer, Ted Cruz
All the Never Trumpers either lost or had tough campaigns. Ted Cruz was part of that group, he embraced them. Voters don’t forget about that.
>>Trump supporters did not come out as they would have if Ted wasn’t a giant idiot with a ego to match
Trump supporters apparently are okay with a Socialist led Houston too.
The results were disastrous and cannot all be pinned on Ted.
Bozo out spent Ted 2 to 1
Your math is faulty about Cruz being “bailed out”
Cruz raised $40 million in this election cycle, and spent roughly $33.8 million, according to the Center for Respective Politics. If you think that’s a lot, it’s not much compared to O’Rourke’s haul. The Texas congressman raised an astonishing $69 million in a race that every poll said he would lose. O’Rourke’s campaign also spent $59 million. So, that was smart.
Even Democrats knew that Valdez would’ve been a disaster at running Texas.
Meanwhile a 27 year old socialist carpetbagger will be the county judge of Houston. Good luck the next time it floods here, and it will.
and this is with Ted not being popular, and Beto and the Dem’s cheating.
If you doubt the Dems cheated, https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/election/article220540115.html
this is the tip of the iceberg.
No surprise nobody has heard about it.
Believe me, most conservative Texas voters (which thankfully were the majority) cast their ballots against Beto and less for Cruz.....who is smart, a good senator, great debater etc. but not a likable candidate. Unfortunately, “likeability” has become a much more significant electoral factor than it should be.
Houston is Houston. Sheila Jackson Lee is pretty radical and has been getting elected in Houston for years. Al Greene is Houston too. A socialist judge in Houston doesn’t seem like much of a stretch.
[Good candidates just don’t fall from the sky, they have to want the job, and be willing to take the arrows that come with it.]
So, if the Libertarian (spoiler as usual) wasn’t running, Cruz would have beat Beto by 300,000 Votes. Got it.
They didn’t show up
Why would they show up for Ted? He’s lyin’ Ted and he’s a never trumper to the core.
Others down ballot suffered because of Ted’s giant ego
If it hadn’t been for DJT helping him out, Cruz would have had his @ss kicked. I hope he appreciates this.
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