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His Senate campaign has ignited grassroots passions among liberals who've long been outnumbered at the voting booth in deep-red Texas. Things were tightening, according to surveys, and national Republicans began to develop some concern that it was getting too close for comfort. The GOP calvary began to mobilize. As the various congressional districts tally and report to the Texas secretary of state, CBS News has live election results for all races across the Lone Star State. He also traveled to every county in the Lone Star state while campaigning.
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Election Day could turn into "Election Week" with rise in mail ballots. They didn't prevail and I am grateful the people of Texas chose a different path," Cruz said. The following month, Cruz formally launched his re-election bid with a focus on extolling Lone Star State exceptionalism — especially in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. "We want Ted!" Heading into the March 6 primary, there was little concern O’Rourke would dominate in his first statewide test. "He poured his heart into this campaign. Acknowledging that "millions across this state were inspired by his campaign," Cruz appealed to O'Rourke's supporters, saying he wanted to represent them too. Prior to entering politics, O'Rourke co-founded Stanton Street Technology, a internet services and software company. He is married to Amy Hoover Sanders and father of three. Over a third of voters said health care was the most important problem. O'Rourke took the stage later in in the evening to address a crowd of several thousand supporters at a baseball stadium in El Paso. Do you value our journalism? Cruz returned to Texas in 2003 to serve as solicitor general, then went into private law practice. "I'm so fucking proud of you guys," O'Rourke declared, during a speech that was being broadcast on national cable networks.
With all precincts reporting, Cruz won by about 219,000 votes, or 2.6 percentage points, over O'Rourke. A judge ordered nine polling places in Harris County to remain open one hour later. O'Rourke has 50.1 percent of votes versus Cruz who has 49.2 percent, with 75 percent of precincts reporting. You have 4 free articles remaining this month, Sign-up to our daily newsletter for more articles like this + access to 5 extra articles. Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect the final election results. Twenty-two percent of voters in Texas were voting in a midterm for the very first time.
Almost a quarter of voters thinks the economy is the country's biggest problem, and among them, the majority voted for Cruz.
It's very sad for El Paso.". After making little secret of his intentions for months, O’Rourke entered the race on the last day of March 2017, announcing his campaign alongside his wife in El Paso. The challenger continues to lead.
Two Democratic Latina candidates are likely to become the first Latinas to represent the state in Congress. It was an ostensibly unifying message that complemented Cruz’s new campaign slogan — “Tough as Texas” — and punctuated a period of home-state re-engagement following his unsuccessful 2016 presidential campaign. At one point later in the evening, a cover band played "Don't Stop Believin'.". Original story: The Texas Senate race between Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke and Republican incumbent Ted Cruz has drawn incredibly close for a traditionally red state. His fervent conservative views made him a polarizing figure. Cruz could appeal to more socially conservative and evangelical Latinos. If O'Rourke, an El Paso congressman, unseats Cruz, he would become the first Democrat to take statewide office since 1994.
"I just now had the opportunity to talk to Senator Cruz ... to congratulate him on his victory, and wish him well going forward," O'Rourke said. But these factors do not guarantee that Latino voters turn out, or that they will vote for Democrats. "It was a good, hard-fought battle, but they dumped so much money and so much advertising — they made it close," Diaz said.
But all the money in the world was no match for the good people of Texas and their hard work.".
Cruz emerged on the national political scene in 2012 as a Tea Party star.
I'm very disappointed," said 80-year-old Olivia Lara, an O'Rourke supporter who said she votes in every election. O'Rourke (49.8 percent) barely leads Cruz (49.5 percent), with 58 percent of precincts reporting. The president has been rallying non-stop in the final weeks before the election, in an attempt to convince his base voters that the election is a referendum on his presidency, even if he isn't on the ballot. Beto O'Rourke vs. Ted Cruz Election Results: Live Updates From Texas Senate Race | U.S. Republican U.S. These voters leaned towards O'Rourke by 7 points, while return voters favored Cruz by 6 points. Although Cruz led O'Rourke in the polls, the fact that the race was so close concerned national Republicans and excited Democrats. The Club for Growth, a conservative group that was critical to Cruz’s 2012 election, announced it would spend seven figures to help fend off O’Rourke, and a parade of high-profile surrogates began to form. Meeting first in Dallas, O’Rourke displayed a more aggressive approach to Cruz, but it still left some supporters unsatisfied, especially as O’Rourke was getting buried by attack ads on TV while running exclusively positive spots.
The night of the primary was notable for another reason: Cruz abruptly went on the offensive against O’Rourke after months of largely ignoring him. But Cruz did not hold back about the challenge he said he faced.
Ted Cruz, the incumbent Republican senator from the Lone Star State, has defeated Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic challenger. ET). Two-thirds of those voters went for O'Rourke. Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Sen. Ted Cruz, 47, become involved in national politics in 1999 as a domestic policy advisor on the George W. Bush presidential campaign. President Trump visited Texas in October to stump for Cruz at a rally with tens of thousands of attendees. O'Rourke has 1,973,415 votes while Cruz has 1,888,589. Half an hour before polls close, Cruz tweeted, "Make our voice heard!" in public policy from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and went on to earn his J.D. We need you to. So in the second debate, held in San Antonio, O’Rourke swung harder at Cruz — to the point of adopting Trump’s old nickname for the senator: “Lyin’ Ted.”.
It wouldn't be enough for O'Rourke to turn out all the Democrats who usually vote in midterm elections. Cruz lost a bitterly fought race for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination to Donald Trump, but they overcame that history to campaign together at a rally last month. View full 2018 Texas election results or subscribe to The Brief for the latest election news. Beto O'Rourke speaks to his supporters after losing to Ted Cruz in the 2018 midterm elections, in El Paso on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. © 2018 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Perhaps it goes without saying — but producing quality journalism isn't cheap. It was a dramatic shift from shortly before 9 p.m., when Cruz's chief strategist, Jeff Roe, took the stage to address concerned supporters looking at returns that showed O'Rourke in reach of a historic upset.