For Republicans, the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy represents an opportunity. For Democrats, it has inspired fear. And for the U.S. Senate race in Texas, it has already become a rallying cry.
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Texas Elections 2018
Ted Cruz leads Beto O’Rourke by 5 points in Texas Senate race, UT/TT poll finds
Texas Republicans in top races, led by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Greg Abbott, are running ahead of their Democratic challengers, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Betomania, the border and Trump-bashing: Five big takeaways from the Texas Democratic convention
Texas Democrats held their biennial convention this weekend in Fort Worth, putting on a largely united front and focusing intensely on the family separation crisis at the border, among other highlights from the three-day gathering.
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Texas Elections 2018
Independent U.S. Senate candidate with unconventional campaign misses filing deadline
Jonathan Jenkins, a independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, has drawn attention for the unusual setup of his campaign. But he missed the deadline Thursday to submit the more than 47,000 signatures he needed to qualify for the November ballot.
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Ted Cruz outlasts Jimmy Kimmel in grueling Blobfish Basketball Classic
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, defeated late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel in a one-on-one basketball game that tested the patience of both players and spectators. The final score was 11-9.
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Analysis: Texas culture warriors got a lot to work with last week
Culture wars feed political wars, and the candidates on both sides in the 2018 election cycle got a couple of big issues to fight about last week.
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Texas has 254 counties. Beto O’Rourke has campaigned against Ted Cruz in each of them.
Beto O’Rourke’s grassroots campaign in 254 counties represents a major deviation from the political playbook employed by the majority of Texas Democrats over the last 20 years. Most campaigns concentrate on the state’s major population centers.
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Analysis: In the Trump era, what do other politicians have to do to grab voters’ attention?
It’s hard to get voters’ attention in Texas politics. Sometimes, that’s an advantage. Sometimes, it’s a burden.
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Beto O’Rourke says he’s “very, very proud of my mom” after Ted Cruz brings up her tax fraud case
Cruz called O’Rourke a hypocrite for supporting taxing businesses for sales across state lines, pointing to a furniture store owned by O’Rourke’s mother that was found guilty in 2010 of tax law violations.
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TribCast
Texas and SCOTUS, George P. Bush’s “fake news,” Senate race heats up
In this edition of the TribCast, Texas Tribune reporter Patrick Svitek sits down with CEO Evan Smith, executive editor Ross Ramsey and reporter Emma Platoff.