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Post by Kady on Jul 9, 2018 8:48:38 GMT -5
I've been watching this race....if anyone in the Senate needs taking down it is Cruz.... Beto is only 5 points behind Cruz in the polls, I do hope he can pull it off.. Beto-mania Sweeps Texas Ted Cruz’s long-shot challenger is drawing riotous crowds. Is it enough? By BEN SCHRECKINGER July 09, 2018 FORT WORTH, Texas — Beto O’Rourke is running to replace Ted Cruz. Literally. Sweat pours off his lean, 6’ 4”-frame as the El Paso Democrat jogs along the southern bank of the Trinity River surrounded by 300-odd supporters and curious voters jogging along with him. Incredibly, they have shown up at 8 a.m. on a Sunday to join him for a double shot of politics and cardio. In between panting breaths, O’Rourke explains to me the origins of this novel campaign event, which has him running several miles under the Texas sun, stopping in the middle to take questions and lingering at the end to pose for selfies. “Some sadistic member of our team,” he recalls, “was like, ‘So we’re doing like six town halls a day in six different counties. We’re driving hundreds of miles every day, we’re visiting all 254 counties. What more could we do? Ah, get up earlier and have running town halls.’” This, in short, is how O’Rourke plans to pull off his longshot bid to take away Cruz’s Senate seat: by outhustling his opponent. O’Rourke, a third-term congressman, often boasts that he has hired no consultants or pollsters. He is his own strategist, and his strategy is simple: campaign relentlessly, project vitality and hope his raw charisma combines in just the right proportion with anti-Cruz animus, Texas’s changing demographics and national Democratic momentum to put him over the top. It’s a lot to hope for. Cruz is among the country’s shrewdest politicians. He may be reviled in Washington and on the left, but his approval rating remains above water in most polls of Texas, which has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1988. Liberals have been fantasizing about turning the state blue for a decade, to no avail. And Cruz retains a double-digit lead in recent polls. But something is catching here. Fueled by millions in small-dollar donations, O’Rourke is outraising Cruz. In recent weeks, President Donald Trump’s policy of separating migrant families detained at the border has given his campaign a jolt of moral clarity. And voters are responding in a way that Texas Democrats say they have not seen before in modern times. more www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/09/beto-mania-sweeps-texas-218961 |
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Post by QuickSilver on Jul 9, 2018 9:47:22 GMT -5
We can only hope that even in texas, there are enough sane people to see what the GOP is really doing to our country.
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Post by helen on Jul 9, 2018 10:11:13 GMT -5
I've been watching this race....if anyone in the Senate needs taking down it is Cruz.... Beto is only 5 points behind Cruz in the polls, I do hope he can pull it off.. Beto-mania Sweeps Texas Ted Cruz’s long-shot challenger is drawing riotous crowds. Is it enough? By BEN SCHRECKINGER July 09, 2018 FORT WORTH, Texas — Beto O’Rourke is running to replace Ted Cruz. Literally. Sweat pours off his lean, 6’ 4”-frame as the El Paso Democrat jogs along the southern bank of the Trinity River surrounded by 300-odd supporters and curious voters jogging along with him. Incredibly, they have shown up at 8 a.m. on a Sunday to join him for a double shot of politics and cardio. In between panting breaths, O’Rourke explains to me the origins of this novel campaign event, which has him running several miles under the Texas sun, stopping in the middle to take questions and lingering at the end to pose for selfies. “Some sadistic member of our team,” he recalls, “was like, ‘So we’re doing like six town halls a day in six different counties. We’re driving hundreds of miles every day, we’re visiting all 254 counties. What more could we do? Ah, get up earlier and have running town halls.’” This, in short, is how O’Rourke plans to pull off his longshot bid to take away Cruz’s Senate seat: by outhustling his opponent. O’Rourke, a third-term congressman, often boasts that he has hired no consultants or pollsters. He is his own strategist, and his strategy is simple: campaign relentlessly, project vitality and hope his raw charisma combines in just the right proportion with anti-Cruz animus, Texas’s changing demographics and national Democratic momentum to put him over the top. It’s a lot to hope for. Cruz is among the country’s shrewdest politicians. He may be reviled in Washington and on the left, but his approval rating remains above water in most polls of Texas, which has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1988. Liberals have been fantasizing about turning the state blue for a decade, to no avail. And Cruz retains a double-digit lead in recent polls. But something is catching here. Fueled by millions in small-dollar donations, O’Rourke is outraising Cruz. In recent weeks, President Donald Trump’s policy of separating migrant families detained at the border has given his campaign a jolt of moral clarity. And voters are responding in a way that Texas Democrats say they have not seen before in modern times. more www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/09/beto-mania-sweeps-texas-218961Go, Beto! Ted Cruz definitely needs to lose his seat. |
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Post by tnthomas on Jul 9, 2018 11:56:56 GMT -5
We can only hope that even in texas, there are enough sane people to see what the GOP is really doing to our country. God loves the Texans, the rest of us will have to wing it.
I'm skeptical about the "sane" part, but I love to be pleasently surprised.
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Post by Kady on Jul 9, 2018 12:04:19 GMT -5
We can only hope that even in texas, there are enough sane people to see what the GOP is really doing to our country. God loves the Texans, the rest of us will have to wing it.
I'm skeptical about the "sane" part, but I love to be pleasently surprised.
lol....no one knows better about the sane part than me....been here all my life. |
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Post by tnthomas on Jul 9, 2018 12:07:10 GMT -5
God loves the Texans, the rest of us will have to wing it.
I'm skeptical about the "sane" part, but I love to be pleasently surprised.
lol....no one knows better about the sane part than me....been here all my life. , lol I knew there were some sane Texans!  |
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Post by keith on Jul 12, 2018 5:21:56 GMT -5
Before I became politically aware of Trump, I was focused on Cruz as the sleaziest scumbag in Washington. That all changed when Trump accused his father of colluding on the assassination of JFK and attacked his wife's looks.
I live in Wisconsin...we put Trump over the top. Texas has nothing to be ashamed of.
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Post by QuickSilver on Jul 12, 2018 5:38:44 GMT -5
Before I became politically aware of Trump, I was focused on Cruz as the sleaziest scumbag in Washington. That all changed when Trump accused his father of colluding on the assassination of JFK and attacked his wife's looks.
I live in Wisconsin...we put Trump over the top. Texas has nothing to be ashamed of. What is your feeling about the political climate in Wisconsin now? Do you think it's going to continue to vote Red.. in light of Trumps performance and has the love for Scott Walker subsided? I never could figure out how our neighbor to the North became so brainwashed... |
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Post by keith on Jul 13, 2018 15:40:10 GMT -5
Before I became politically aware of Trump, I was focused on Cruz as the sleaziest scumbag in Washington. That all changed when Trump accused his father of colluding on the assassination of JFK and attacked his wife's looks.
I live in Wisconsin...we put Trump over the top. Texas has nothing to be ashamed of. What is your feeling about the political climate in Wisconsin now? Do you think it's going to continue to vote Red.. in light of Trumps performance and has the love for Scott Walker subsided? I never could figure out how our neighbor to the North became so brainwashed... |
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Post by Kady on Jul 16, 2018 19:33:26 GMT -5
Hee hee hee 7 Texas Republicans in Congress just got outraised by their Democratic rivals Source: Texas Tribune WASHINGTON – There are few bigger warning signs for a member of Congress that their re-election may be in doubt than when a challenger outraises them. In Texas, it just happened to seven incumbents, all Republicans. Since last week, when U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, revealed that he had raised a stunning $10.4 million between April and June in his bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, a wave of Texas Democrats running for U.S. House seats similarly blasted out their own unusually strong fundraising numbers. The numbers only became more striking when compared to their rivals: Some Democratic challengers raised two, three or even four times what their Republican incumbent rivals posted. All congressional candidates were required to file their second-quarter fundraising reports with the Federal Election Commission by Sunday. Along with Cruz, the six congressional incumbents who were outraised are delegation fixtures: U.S. Reps. John Carter of Round Rock, John Culberson of Houston, Will Hurd of Helotes, Pete Olson of Sugar Land, Pete Sessions of Dallas and Roger Williams of Austin. Read more: www.texastribune.org/2018/07/16/7-texas-republicans-congress-were-outraised-their-democratic-rivals/ |
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Post by Drifter on Jul 16, 2018 20:26:55 GMT -5
Great news, Kady ! Just maybe, Texas will turn blue!  |
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