With general election voting less than three weeks away, outside events have more influence. That includes big endorsements from current and past presidents — and it includes October surprises like the one unfolding in the U.S. Senate.
2018 Texas U.S. Senate Election
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Texas Elections 2018
Mike Pence to campaign for Ted Cruz, Pete Sessions in Dallas
Cruz and Sessions are in two of the state’s most competitive federal races this fall.
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Texas Elections 2018
Cruz campaign office evacuated after receiving “white powdery substance” in the mail
Two people were hospitalized after reporting feeling ill, but the powder was determined not to be hazardous.
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Texas Elections 2018
Beto O’Rourke apologizes for 1991 remark about female performers in Broadway show
U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke apologized Monday for a decades-old review of a Broadway play that he wrote as a student at Columbia University in which he critiqued the performance of actresses “whose only qualifications seem to be their phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks.”
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Texas Elections 2018
Beto O’Rourke uses nixed debate time slot to shoot ad on Facebook Live
U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s campaign declined a late offer from U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s camp to revive Sunday’s cancelled debate, citing other plans. Those plans apparently included shooting an ad from O’Rourke’s kitchen.
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Texas 2020 Elections
U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke discusses DWI, term limits
At the closing keynote of the Texas Tribune Festival, the Senate hopeful said the police report of his 1998 drunk driving arrest is incorrect and reaffirmed his commitment to not seek higher office if elected.
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Texas Elections 2018
Second Ted Cruz-Beto O’Rourke debate postponed
The decision comes as the U.S. Senate focuses on the confirmation process of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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Texas Elections 2018
6 ways Beto O’Rourke’s Senate bid is like Ted Cruz’s first bid for Congress
Back in 2012, Ted Cruz was the underdog who managed to beat out the better-known David Dewhurst for a U.S. Senate seat. Now, as Cruz is running for re-election, there are echoes of that earlier campaign in Beto O’Rourke’s bid to unseat Cruz.
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Texas Elections 2018
How much money have Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke raised outside Texas? We don’t know for sure.
Each Texas candidate for U.S. Senate has criticized the other for raising money outside the state. But campaign finance rules make it difficult to say who has raised more.
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Split Decision for 2018 Election
We set up a virtual debate between Beto O’Rourke and Ted Cruz. Hear where they stand.
Watch O’Rourke and Cruz virtually debate issues like immigration, guns and health care.
