According to findings published Thursday morning by Emerson College Polling and Nexstar Media, the Republican incumbent is locked in a statistical tie with two Democratic challengers. Pollsters asked a group of 1,315 registered Texas voters during the period of Jan. 13-15 who they would support if Cruz ultimately faced either U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, D-Dallas, or State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio.
I’m really hoping we get turnout more like 2020 and less like 2022.
Turnout in 2022 was actually really good for a midterm, and that’s why it was so disastrous for republicans.
Not in Texas, it wasn’t. Here, it was abysmal—46%, down seven points from 2018, and that’s with fucking Abbott on the ticket.
The total number of voters was higher, but the percentage of voters was worse.
That 46% doesn’t consider the 4.2 million who weren’t registered either. That’s ~50% of the population people who bothered to go to the polls.
