Ted Cruz warns Texas will be 'hotly contested' in 2020

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Ted Cruz warns Texas will be 'hotly contested' in 2020
 
By MARIANNE LEVINE
09/12/2019 11:27 AM EDT
 
Sen. Ted Cruz is sounding the alarm on Texas.

During a Christian Science Monitor breakfast on Thursday, Cruz warned that Texas will be “hotly contested” in 2020. He said that while he had confidence his colleague Republican Sen. John Cornyn and President Donald Trump would win the state, both will face a “serious race.”

“I think the Texas election in 2018 is powerful foreshadowing for what to expect across the country in 2020,” Cruz said, referring to his reelection battle against former Rep. Beto O’Rourke. “The Democrats in Texas increased their turnout more than 100 percent.”

Cruz reflected on his own contest against O’Rourke, noting that the Texas Democrat outspent his campaign “3 to 1” and that his Senate race was the most expensive in history. Cruz beat O’Rourke by about 2.6 percentage points.

Cruz further predicted that there will be “record-shattering” Democratic turnout in 2020 and that Republicans will need to turn out other voters.   
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“The far left is pissed off, they hate the president and that is a powerful motivator,” Cruz said. “If the left shows up in massive numbers and everybody else doesn’t that’s how we end up with an incredibly damaging election.”

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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/ted-cruz-texas-2020-1492264