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In the third quarter of 2018, O'Rourke raised $38.1 million. This was the largest quarterly total raised by a U.S. Senate candidate [201] until Jaime Harrison raised $57 million in the third quarter of 2020 in the South Carolina election. [202] Cruz and O'Rourke combined to raise a record-setting total of $126 million during the 2018 campaign ...
The election also took place alongside a closer, higher-profile Senate race between Beto O'Rourke and Ted Cruz, which may have played a factor in making the Democratic gubernatorial candidate considerably more competitive than in 2014. Abbott won a majority among white voters (72% to 26%), while Valdez won majorities among African Americans (80 ...
The 2018 general election was held in the U.S. state of Texas on November 6, 2018. All of Texas's executive officers were up for election as well as a United States Senate seat, and all of Texas's thirty-six seats in the United States House of Representatives. The Republican and Democratic Parties nominated their candidates by primaries held ...
Back then, Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, the progressive El Paso congressman with a penchant for the F-bomb and standing on countertops, was attempting to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz.
Four races will decide candidates in three areas. One race for Trustee Area 2 is for a short term that could potentially last only several days.
Cruz v. Beto, 405 U.S. 319 (1972), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court upheld a Free Exercise claim based on the allegations that the state of Texas had discriminated against a Buddhist prisoner by "denying him a reasonable opportunity to pursue his Buddhist faith comparable to that offered other prisoners adhering to conventional religious precepts."
Cruz, who has stamped out a reputation as a conservative firebrand, won his 2018 race against former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, by less than three points. – Karissa Waddick
Cruz was first elected in 2012, defeating Paul Sadler by 15.84 points and was reelected in 2018 by only 2.56 points, narrowly defeating Beto O'Rourke. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The close elections in 2018 prompted many electoral analysts to speculate that Texas could become a swing state , but in the 2020 and 2022 elections, Republicans increased their ...