Ted Cruz Can Breathe Easy

[Right_in_Virginia]

Ted Cruz Can Breathe Easy
American Conservative, Sep 13, 2018, Daniel R. DePetris


The last Democrat in Texas who won the governor’s mansion was Ann Richards in 1990. The last Democrat to have represented Texas in the U.S. Senate was Lloyd Bentsen who was re-elected for the final time in 1988. Today, the Texas Democratic Party is relegated to the big cities of Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin. It’s as strong in urban areas as it is weak in the rural areas and towns where cattle roam free and church-organized events are a fact of life. In Texas’s 36-member House of Representatives delegation, Democrats are a small minority of 11.

Beto O’Rourke is one of the 11, representing El Paso. The tall, lanky Democrat who has lately been barnstorming through the state could be his party’s new white whale. For a three-term congressman who was an obscure figure less than a year ago to unseat Ted Cruz, a former Republican presidential candidate with nationwide name recognition, would be a coup de grace. And yet O’Rourke is only four points behind Cruz in the most recent NBC News poll, released last week.

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O’Rourke and Cruz couldn’t be any more different. Though only a few years apart in age, O’Rourke is the cool, hip, inspirational guy who jams with Willie Nelson on stage and talks about how Americans of different political persuasions need to remember how to get along. He’s the rare congressman who gets features in the New York Times, Time, and The Guardian, which treat him as a cross between Barack Obama and Bobby Kennedy. He’s traveled to all 254 Texas counties, treating his campaign as a months-long road trip. And for a challenger who came into the race looking like a certain loser, his fundraising prowess is off the charts. As of July 31, O’Rourke had taken in $23.6 million to Cruz’s $15.6 million—not a single penny is from a political action committee.

Cruz is the stiff lawyer who tries a little too hard to be relatable. He isn’t a retail politician; rather he’s more comfortable discussing conservative jurisprudence or philosophy. O’Rourke’s message is beaming with positivity; not so with Cruz, who has gone negative quickly in an attempt to coalesce the Texas Republican juggernaut behind him. He has called his Democratic opponent a left-wing crazy, a liberal extremist out to bring down the Republican president, and a wannabe Californian. “Look, elections are about choices,” Cruz tells voters on the stump. “If you want a big government, gun-grabbing liberal, well, the Democrats are giving you one.”  [...]

Yet there’s still reason for Cruz to breathe easy. Texas is still Texas, the ultimate red state.



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[austingirl]

 "He’s the rare congressman who gets features in the New York Times, Time, and The Guardian, which treat him as a cross between Barack Obama and Bobby Kennedy."

In a nutshell, Beatoff is a creation of the leftists from out of state, financed by non-Texans.