For the past week or so as the Texas primary neared, all we heard is about how Ted Cruz is in trouble in Texas and how there will be “record” turnout for the Democrats during tonight primary. Turns out, not only did the Democrats fall flat of expectations, it was the Republicans who set record voting for a Texas primary. Ted Cruz, running against four other Republicans surpassed his vote total from the 2016 GOP primary when he was running for president and beat Trump in Texas. In 2016, Cruz got about 1.2 million votes. In an off year mid-term election, Cruz, despite four Republican challengers got well over 1.3 million votes. The best the Democrats could do was boring Marxist Beto O’Rourke who struggled to get 636,000 total votes.
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In Greg Abbott, the governor’s case, he had an even bigger margin over the Democrat rejects tonight. Abbott amassed nearly 1.4 million primary votes, despite two challengers. The Democrats will have a runoff between Lupe Valdez and Andrew White. Lupe Valdez, the leading Democrat vote getting got a grand total of about 433,000 votes.
When Greg Abbott first ran for governor of Texas back in 2014, he got about 1.2 million votes in the GOP primary and the total voter turnout in that primary was about 1.3 million. Not only did Abbott win big tonight, he alone surpassed the entire primary vote total for the GOP in 2014.