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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 margins ...
We must meet this moment," O'Rourke, a fourth-generation Texan who represented Texas' Congressional District 16, including El Paso, from 2013 to 2019, said Thursday as the final speaker of the ...
O'Rourke campaigned in all of Texas's 254 counties. [99] He said he planned to run a positive campaign, not focused on Donald Trump or Ted Cruz. [100] Beto O'Rourke during a rally in Austin, Texas, November 2018. O'Rourke's campaign received significant national attention for its ability to draw large crowds and extensive use of social media.
The 2020 presidential campaign of Beto O'Rourke, the U.S. representative for Texas's 16th congressional district from 2013 to 2019, was announced on March 14, 2019. Beto O'Rourke had previously attracted national attention for his unsuccessful campaign against Ted Cruz in the 2018 Senate election in Texas .
WASHINGTON — With more than four months left before Election Day 2018, Democrat Beto O’Rourke had campaigned in all of Texas’ 254 counties in his bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz ...
This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: Beto O'Rourke, Gabby Giffords headline Texas Dem convention in El Paso. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. Elections 20 24. See all.
Beto O'Rourke's DUI charge from 1998. When O'Rourke first ran for public office in 2005, the incumbent city representative he was challenging accused O'Rourke of being arrested for burglary and DUI.
Prior to the election, most news organizations projected this race as "Lean Republican", and was not expected to be as competitive as the contest for Texas's other Senate seat two years prior, when Republican incumbent Ted Cruz defeated Democrat Beto O'Rourke by a 2.6% margin. Nonetheless, John Cornyn won in what was his worst performance out ...