Beto O’Rourke is all that for the media…..
But?
He’s a Democrat running in RED State Texas…..
Texas GOP US Senator Ted Cruz looks worried actually….
But he’s been ahead of O’Rourke in the polling all the way thru the race….
Oh?
Democrat O’Rourke has broken the record book for money raised for a US Senate race campaign in a three month period…..
Texas Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Beto O’Rourke raised a record $38.1 million in the third quarter, the campaign announced Friday, nearly tripling his overall fundraising haul for the cycle.
The blockbuster quarter surpasses the record for the largest fundraising quarter ever in a U.S. Senate race — set by Rick Lazio in his race against Hillary Clinton in New York in 2000.
The total was “powered by 802,836 individual contributions and without a dime from PACs, corporations or special interests,” the campaign said in a press release.
Most polls in the state place his opponent, incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, in the driver’s seat still — though O’Rourke has an outsider’s shot at defeating him on election night, most experts speculate.
Texas may be slipping from the bulletproof GOP stronghold it was over the last few decades, but it’s still a reliably red state. President Donald Trump won there over Hillary Clinton by 11 points in 2016.
Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales rates the race Likely Republican.
O’Rourke’s report marks the sixth consecutive quarter that O’Rourke has outraised Cruz, the campaign said….
image..thehill
Reality check on the Texas US Senate race….
Anything CAN happen…
But isn’t likely….
Republicans acknowledge O’Rourke’s prolific fundraising abilities, but they believe it still won’t help him overcome Cruz’s consistent polling lead and the traditionally red dynamics of Texas.
Though polls had shown a tight race through the summer, Cruz has regained his footing, with a recent Quinnipiac University poll showing him up by 9 points and a New York Times/Siena College survey having him ahead by 8 points. And both polls show that only a small amount of voters are undecided.
O’Rourke has never led a public poll.
Democrats haven’t won statewide office in the Lone Star State since 1994, nor a U.S. Senate seat since 1988.
“That’s a lot of money. But I think all the money in the world is not going to help Beto at this point because I think he is self-identified as a national Democrat which means he’s way too liberal to get elected in Texas,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) told reporters at the Capitol on Friday….
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President Donald Trump will rally Texans for Sen. Ted Cruz in Houston next Monday, Oct. 22, as Cruz’s race with Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke enters the home stretch before the Nov. 6 midterm elections there.
Trump had promised in August to campaign on Cruz’s behalf, a promise Cruz heartily welcomed….
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Maybe the President will echo Lyin’ Ted’s peroration at the 2016 GOP Convention and tell Texans to vote their conscience.
Not this time ….
FEAR IS THE KEY!
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Is it really possible that Bruce Ohr, whose wife Nellie was paid by Simpson and GPS Fusion for work done on the Fake Dossier, and who was used as a Pawn in this whole SCAM (WITCH HUNT), is still working for the Department of Justice????? Can this really be so?????
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“Conflict between Glen Simpson’s testimony to another House Panel about his contact with Justice Department official Bruce Ohr. Ohr was used by Simpson and Steele as a Back Channel to get (FAKE) Dossier to FBI. Simpson pleading Fifth.” Catherine Herridge. Where is Jeff Sessions?
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Thank you to the Cherokee Nation for revealing that Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, is a complete and total Fraud!
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Now that her claims of being of Indian heritage have turned out to be a scam and a lie, Elizabeth Warren should apologize for perpetrating this fraud against the American Public. Harvard called her “a person of color” (amazing con), and would not have taken her otherwise!
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Pocahontas (the bad version), sometimes referred to as Elizabeth Warren, is getting slammed. She took a bogus DNA test and it showed that she may be 1/1024, far less than the average American. Now Cherokee Nation denies her, “DNA test is useless.” Even they don’t want her. Phony!
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Rep. Ryan Costello (R-PA) has condemned Trump’s tweet calling Stormy Daniels “horseface”
Of course Costello is not running again. The rest if the GOP? Pussies!