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In the third quarter of 2018, O'Rourke raised $38.1 million. This amount 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Allred also outraised both Cruz (and O’Rourke’s 2018 campaign) in the first quarter of the year. Allred raised over $9.7 million in the first three months of the year to O’Rourke’s over $6 ...
It almost worked; O’Rourke lost to Cruz by a similar margin as the current poll. Allred’s approach is to pitch himself as bipartisan, almost above the fray — and to pound Cruz as the reason ...
Beto O’Rourke’s candidacy dramatically shifted a race where Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, had been an easy bet for re-election, but his unorthodox campaign was not enough to unseat the tea party ...
Cruz was reelected in a close race in 2018 against Democratic nominee Beto O'Rourke and decisively won a third term in 2024 against Congressman Colin Allred. In 2016 , Cruz sought the Republican presidential nomination, emerging as a serious competitor to front-runner Donald Trump in a primary marked by intense, often personal, exchanges.
First, the former El Paso city councilman ran for Senate in 2018 against Sen. Ted Cruz. After he lost, O’Rourke briefly popped up on the national stage and ran for president.