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Loses to Ted Cruz for the senate in Texas...


...and thinks that qualifies him to run for president?

That's like asking a hot celebrity for a coffee date and, after she decisively says "No," trying to force sex on her.

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Beto lost by 3 percentage points which means he won Texas, Cruz lost (no blowout for him), Beto's campaign swung a large number of the midterm elections in Texas blue, and flipped their courts blue, he triggered a blue wave blowout of Republicans across Texas, Beto carrying the people of Texas to the convention means that whoever the Democratic nominee is has a chance of winning Texas in the general election. A Beto/Bernie ticket could have a chance of winning. If you think he's a loser and has no chance than you have nothing to worry about.

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/11/07/blue-wave-texas-democrats-beto-orourke-midterms-2018/

--- El Paso Democrat Beto O’Rourke lost a hard-fought, nationally watched U.S. Senate race to incumbent Ted Cruz. The margin was just three points — a tighter race than Democrats have achieved in years. And several statewide Republican incumbents were elected by mere single digits.

--- Other bright spots for Democrats came in the U.S. House and the Texas House, where Democrats knocked off powerful Republicans. O’Rourke didn’t quite topple Cruz, but he carried Democrats to victory in battlegrounds suburbs, particularly around Dallas, where a slate of Texas House Republicans and one powerful U.S. House member, House Rules Chairman Pete Sessions, were unseated.

--- Texas’ congressional delegation — the second-largest in the country after California — has ever-so slightly shifted its tilt toward the center. Democrats picked up two seats, knocking off Sessions and Houston-area U.S. Rep. John Culberson. That took the delegation from a lopsided 11–25 split favoring the Republicans to a tighter 13–23.

--- And in the Texas House, Democrats picked up a dozen seats, bringing the minority party to a level it hasn’t seen in a decade. And Democrats positioned themselves to carry ever-so-slightly more influence in the upcoming race for speaker of the Texas House.

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Beto lost by 3 percentage points which means he won Texas,


do wut?

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Yep, read what was posted instead of pretending you did.

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The President did, you said he lost but he actually won, but in reality he lost.

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to many libtards moving out of cali and to texas. just wait they will ruin texas real soon and start moving again to another conservative place to destroy

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https://www.texastribune.org/2018/11/07/blue-wave-texas-democrats-beto-orourke-midterms-2018/

--- In the Texas Senate, Democrats knocked off two Republican incumbents, Konni Burton and Don Huffines, both from battleground North Texas. But a close race that ultimately favored state Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, means Texas Republicans continue to hold the powerful 19-seat advantage that will allow them to bring bills up for a vote on the Senate floor without any Democratic support.

--- Texas Democrats flipped four major appeals courts, taking back majorities in the judicial districts that serve Austin, Dallas and Houston. The 5th Court of Appeals, based in Dallas, has not elected a Democrat since 1992; on Tuesday, the 13-member court elected eight Democrats, including a Democratic chief justice.

--- But if Texas Democrats achieved little more than a crack in the dam, its placement was noteworthy. O’Rourke led battleground suburban counties like Williamson and Hays. And he cut down Republicans’ traditionally hefty margins in reliably red counties, coming neck and neck with Cruz in Tarrant County, suggesting the state is purpling faster than many expected.

--- O’Rourke’s historic margin could change the national calculus on the country’s second-largest electoral prize during the 2020 presidential run.

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Because of all the idiot Californian's and illegal immigrants.

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If California voters and illegal immigrants found a way to cast a ballot for candidates in Texas, that would be the fault of Texas Republicans who failed to secure their election systems, just as, according to Republican Mitch McConnell, it's the fault of Democrats that North Carolina's local Republicans engaged in a massive election fraud scheme (and the ringleader rigged previous elections....).
https://www.axios.com/mcconnell-falsely-blames-democrats-nc-electoral-fraud-9a9867f6-39a1-4536-8d04-d44d4bd94cab.html

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This forum needs an "applause" button for your post!

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And if he wins the primary, he will have accomplished what is permanently out of Cruz' reach.

If he doesn't, but the Democrats win Texas in the general election, LOL to Cruz.

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Idaho voted to expand Medicaid. Republican lawmakers are trying to roll it back
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/22/18277083/idaho-medicaid-expansion-john-roberts-obamacare

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