As Cruz pulls away, his supporters are ready to stick a fork in 'desperate' O'Rourke
by Al Weaver
| October 17, 2018 07:00 PM
SAN ANTONIO — After a brief scare and a whole lot of liberal money flowing into Texas, Republicans think Sen. Ted Cruz has almost finished off his vaunted Democratic challenger, Rep. Beto O'Rourke.
While Cruz, R-Texas, and his allies are not saying publicly that they have the race in the bag, they are coming close with less than three weeks until Election Day and not even a week before early voting kicks off.
On Wednesday morning, Cruz told reporters that his opponent has grown "desperate." O'Rourke, D-Texas, had launched a trio of attack ads — on immigration, education, and healthcare — after leveling multiple broadsides in Tuesday night's final debate.
"This morning, the O'Rourke campaign released the dogs ... It's clear their their campaign pollsters ... have told them they're in trouble," Cruz said after holding a roundtable with law enforcement officers. "You gotta understand that his campaign is desperate, and so he's willing to say things in the TV camera that he knows aren't true."
Perhaps sensing the polls are moving in the wrong direction for him, O'Rourke leveled multiple personal attacks against the incumbent Republican. On one occasion, he called him "dishonest" while digging up President Trump's "Lyin' Ted" nickname from the 2016 campaign, saying it stuck "because it's true."
O'Rourke's attacks came despite telling reporters just over 24 hours before Tuesday's debate that he intended to continue to run a positive campaign in the final three weeks before the midterm elections, saying that he is "sick" of negative attacks.
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