The Latest Poll Out Of Texas Shows A Surprisingly Tight Race Between Cruz And O’Rourke

Ted Cruz is running against anti-gun lib Beto O’Rourke, and it SHOULD be an easy win. This is Texas we’re talking about. However, the latest Quinnipiac University Poll is cause for concern. It shows Cruz up by a mere 3 points. That’s it. Here’s the scoop:

The closely watched U.S. Senate race in Texas is too close to call, with 47 percent for Republican incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz and 44 percent for U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, his Democratic challenger, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll released today.

There are wide party, gender, age and racial gaps, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN- uh-pe-ack) University Poll finds:
O’Rourke gets 87 – 9 percent support from Democrats and 51 – 37 percent backing from independent voters, as Republicans go to Cruz 88 – 6 percent;

Men back Cruz 51 – 40 percent, while women go 47 percent for O’Rourke and 43 percent for Cruz;

Voters 18 to 34 years old go Democratic 50 – 34 percent, while voters over 65 years old go Republican 50 – 43 percent;

White voters back Cruz 59 – 34 percent, as O’Rourke leads 78 – 18 percent among black voters and 51 – 33 percent among Hispanic voters.

Sen. Cruz gets lackluster grades, including a 47 – 45 percent job approval rating and a 46 – 44 percent favorability rating.

O’Rourke gets a 30 – 16 percent favorability rating, but 53 percent of Texas voters don’t know enough about him to form an opinion of him.

Texas voters “like Ted Cruz as a person” 47 – 38 percent. Voters “like Beto O’Rourke as a person” 40 – 13 percent with 47 percent undecided.

Keep in mind. We’re still far out, and polls can be very, very, VERY wrong. (Please see the entire presidential election of 2016.)

According to the poll, voters agree that Cruz would do better on a number of key issues including the economy, taxes, health care, immigration and gun policy.

In other words, Cruz is better on virtually EVERYTHING.

I’ll say it. I think Cruz has this in the bag, and I think he KNOWS he has it in the bag. It may sound risky to say, but I tend to believe this is all hype. In reality, I don’t believe there’s a TRUE contest. They just want us to think there is.

This is a no-brainer Texas. Don’t let us down.

FIRST LISTEN: our new 60-second statewide radio ad introducing our liberal opponent, Congressman Robert O’Rourke, to Texas voters.

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— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 7, 2018