aka Ted Cruz is losing. to a Democrat. in Texas. and he knows it.

[riversedge]

Long way to NOV but encouraging at this point to see Cruz with his panties in a big wad!

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Adam Parkhomenko Retweeted Patrick Svitek

aka Ted Cruz is losing. to a Democrat. in Texas. and he knows it.

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Monica Fraker
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Replying to @PatrickSvitek @tedcruz @BetoORourke

Sounds like Ted is scared. Rightly so. Texans are fed up. Cruz is history.
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Donate and help make it so

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Replying to @PatrickSvitek @tedcruz @BetoORourke

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Flashback: 20 Texas GOP congressmen and both senators voted against Sandy relief. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/08/28/flashback_20_texas_gop_representatives_and_both_senators_voted_against_the.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top … via @slate

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott: The federal government will need to give over $100 billion towards Harvey relief #CNNSOTU
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[Cha]

1. Great OP for BETO, rivers! K&R..

hope all of cruz' lies and malfunctions come back to bite him in Nov!

[riversedge]

2. Chris Hayes interviewing Beto Orouke right now

[nolabear]

4. He looks good! Not insane! (Boy is the bar low these days...)

[Gabi Hayes]

34. Not insane, you say? If that is the bar, then......

[nolabear]

36. Whooooaaaaa...I just had a major flashback.

I loved Firesign Theater. We STILL laugh about knowing my husband's startup had gone corporate when they had to take Firesign theater off of the hold button.

[Gabi Hayes]

37. Dont get me started (up)!

Ted Cruz?

[Cha]

31. I bet it was Good!

Don't have a tv?

[riversedge]

3. Nice to 'see' you Cha

[Cha]

32. You, too, rivers!

Always love your informative OPs!

[blogslut]

5. Beto is on Chris Hayes' right now!

[riversedge]

11. He seems like such a gentle man--but firm.

[blogslut]

14. I found him to be very quick and unflappable

And he's right. We folk in the sticks barely see candidates of either party during election season because they all just assume we'll vote GOP. It means a damned hell of a lot to see these people in person.

[flygal]

6. Oh Act Blue you make it so convenient to donate!

I'm cutting down on eating out and donating to Dems until Nov.

[Gabi Hayes]

35. That is such an excellently well put way of suggesting a course of action

Time to start using all the soup cookbooks I’ve amassed over he years!

Like this one!



Might lose a few lbs along the way....

[Skittles]

7. I voted for Beto and will donate

anything to help bring down that slimy POS Cruz

[Tatiana]

8. Ted Cruz Warns Republicans: We Could Lose Both Houses of Congress

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) issued a warning to his party on Tuesday as voters in his own state head to the primary polls: Democrats will show up in droves this year.

<snip>

“The flip side, if conservatives are complacent, we know that the left is going to show up,” the senator explained. “The extreme left, they’re angry. They’re filled with rage. They hate the president. And mark my words, we are going to see historic turnout from the extreme left in November, which means if conservatives stay home, we have the potential, we could lose both houses of Congress.”


Cruz added: “In Texas, if conservatives stay home, if we rest on our laurels, we could see Texas turn blue.”


While Cruz faces Republican primary challengers, there is no doubt he will face off against state Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) in November’s general election. O’Rourke has thus far run an energetic campaign in the Lone Star State, raising $2.3 million in the first 45 days of this year alone. During that period, O’Rourke raised almost three times more than Cruz.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-warns-republicans-we-could-lose-both-houses-of-congress?ref=home

[pangaia]

16. Who the heck is the "extreme left?"

I keep hearing this term.

[standingtall]

21. That is the people that

don't want social security and medicare privatized and don't want medicaid ripped away from poor people in the minds of Ted Cruz and republicans.

[pangaia]

24. In other words, SANE people...

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[Tatiana]

45. They made it up. They just mean "left."

But they add "extreme" to make liberal or left-leaning people sound unappealing to Independents or Conservatives who may otherwise be tempted to vote for a Democrat.

[pangaia]

50. We need to use similar terms--

fascists
oligarchs
kleptocrats
dictatorship
PLUTARCHY -(I had to look that one up, but that is what it really is)

[SammyWinstonJack]

27. Extreme left. Oh okay.

[msongs]

9. so far cruz has 200K more votes than orourke. he has a lot of catch up to do nt

[Stallion]

15. Yeah But Total Democratic Votes Are Running Close Statewide

and I'd bet the small counties are reporting faster than Democratic strong holds in Dallas, Travis, El Paso, Bexar and Harris County where the big Democratic vote is

[Demsrule86]

22. They have not counted the Democratic precincts yet.

[Lithos]

29. 400k

So, might narrow one the urban precincts come in, but it will still need an unprecedented GOTV...

[bearsfootball516]

30. NYT Nate Cohn says GOP is up by about 22 points

Added that the Dems will gain back a little ground, but for the most part, it's a show that Republicans will still likely dominate the state this November.

[Lithos]

40. At the state level, yes

But we did very well at the district level in several key races, one example being District 21. Good chance to flip one or two.

[LisaL]

43. He's got twice as many.

https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/texas-primary-election

[LeftInTX]

46. Total for all senate candidates in both primaries:

Democratic: 1,037,779
Republican: 1,543,574

Beto got 61% the primary voters (He had an Our Revolution challenger who got about 25% and another candidate that got about 14%.)

Cruz got 85%. (Four other candidates competed against him. )

[Glorfindel]

10. As if New York values would be a bad thing. Bullshit.

Remember 9/11, when those cold, uncaring New Yorkers lined up to help their fellow citizens walking across the bridges to get away from the horror? They waited with water, food, even shoes. If anything good could be said about that awful time, the courage, decency, and willingness to help of people with "New York values" is it. Then think ahead four years (almost to the day) to another great American city ravaged by disaster. How did the "southern values" show up in contrast? Policemen waited at bridges leading out of New Orleans to prevent their fellow citizens from escaping to safety. They even shot several of them. I'll take New York values any day of the week, and Ted Cruz can take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. And tRump embodies nothing but his own putrefying self.
And slavering greed, of course.

[NBachers]

25. How about the Full Throttle NY Minute Response when Sully put his Airbus down in the Hudson River?

If that wasn't an "I Love This Town!" moment, I don't know what was.

[Glorfindel]

26. Absolutely.

n/t

[GWC58]

12. It would be so fantastically awesome if/when

Beto sends Cruz packing. Ted “Green Eggs & Ham” Cruz is an easy man/thing to detest. And detest him I most certainly do!

[catrose]

17. I still remember what Al Franken said about Cruz

"I like Ted Cruz better than anybody in the Senate does--and I hate Ted Cruz." Samantha Bee called him a "used condom in a Gideon Bible," which seems to cover it. I've no idea why Texas replaced Kay Bailey Hutchinson, who actually approached humanity on occasion, with Ted Cruz.

[bearsfootball516]

13. Hes got a couple hundred thousand more votes than Orourke, thats not losing

But it’s still funny that Cruz is clearly nervous.

[pangaia]

18. What does it mean he has 200,00 more votes?

Is there already voting going on for the NOV election?

(I know-WHAT election? Well, if there actually is one)

[bearsfootball516]

20. Basically, several hundred thousands more republicans voted than democrats for the primary

If both parties put up similar numbers in november, it won’t be close.

[pangaia]

23. Thanks..

[brooklynite]

19. Sorry, but for now I'm not seeing it...

Cruz, running basically unopposed has 780,000. O'Rourke has 381,000

[vercetti2021]

33. Hopefully more dems will turn out in November

Who knows?

[brooklynite]

41. "who knows" is not a concept I work with when it comes to picking races to support...

I look at hard data. People were excited by the fact that the early vote was heavily weighted towards Democrats. the bottom line is that Republican votes were 50% higher than Democratic votes at the end of the Primary.

[vercetti2021]

44. My response to people who are more down on it at the moment

Figure there will be some middle ground somewhere

[LeftInTX]

49. Confusing..right?

The SOS data that was released during early voting were Texas' largest counties. (blue)

Statewide, Democrats increased their voting by 102%, while Republicans increased their's by 16% from 2014


Fuzzy math!

It is the same as interpreting Nate Silver's odds as actual poll numbers!

[Iggo]

28. "New York values"? Wow.

[duforsure]

38. Little Rafael

Won't vote to ban assault weapons of war, and will vote to destroy Social Security. All you need to know who he represents.

[GWC58]

39. And yet many old folks in

Texas will vote for this vile, nasty, sub-human piece of DOGSHIT! All because he has an (R) after his name.

[LisaL]

42. How is he losing?

He's got twice the votes. Is that losing nowdays?

[ananda]

47. Where is the actual evidence/polls that say Cruz is losing?

I want him to lose SO badly ..

but I don't want to get my hopes up on hearsay.

[bearsfootball516]

51. There isn't any, because he's winning pretty comfortably.

Republican turnout for the Texas senate primary was about 500,000 votes higher than the Democratic turnout. It was still an impressive turnout for Democrats, they surpassed a million for the first time since 2002. But if last night was any indication, the Democratic push to beat Ted Cruz is more of a pipe dream than reality.

[NNadir]

48. It's a long way from here to there, but man, it would be great to lose that Idiot Cruz. n/t

[Motley13]

52. Cruz said O'Rourke was using Beto to appeal to Latinos

that has been his nickname all his life.
Why is Cruz using Ted instead of his real name Rafael?

[walkingman]

53. I despise Ted Cruz and Beto would make a great Senator for Texas but the problem is multifaceted

Texas is 56% minority (typical Dem voters) but Texas has a historically low voter turnout. We have been gerrymandered to the point that my vote (TX Dist 27) really does not count and the same things exists all over the state. On top of that the Rethuglicans have done everything possible to make it harder to vote.

Since the GOP attack on Ann Richards in 1994 (being just as nasty as they can) and the election of "W" Bush the GOP has systematically (with the help of Karl Rove) put the "good ole boys" in every statewide political office. Following "W" Rick Perry was elected and it got even worse. Perry went on to be the States longest serving Gov. in Texas history.

Why? In God's name, WHY?

Using God, Guns, and Gays, they drew the hypocritical Christian vote, the Rednecks, Shitkickers, and angry under-educated White masses from rural Texas to the situation we now find ourselves. It totally sucks being surrounded by these nasty folks but I refuse to move. However it is quite depressing to realize that it will probably be this way at least for the rest of my lifetime.

If it were not for family I would leave this place in a "New York minute". Texas has become the "New Mississippi" but worse!

[shadowmayor]

54. Lyin' Ted don't know how to neighbor

When Hurricane Sandy hit NJ and NY, lyin' Ted told Governors Christie and Cuomo to get stuffed. No FEMA money until cuts were made to the budget to offset emergency funds for folks in desperate need of help. When Harvey was bearing down on Texas, lyin' Ted was begging for funds to be released. Why? Because lyin' Ted don't know how to neighbor. He's not a real Texan, and never learned the basic idea that we should help those who need it. Most Texans have this figured out before kindergarten - but not lyin' Ted. He has no sand as they say. Plenty of time before next November to rile up real Texans and toss the worm outta office.