{"id":30657,"date":"2018-06-30T15:09:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T15:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30657"},"modified":"2018-06-30T15:09:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T15:09:46","slug":"orourke-vs-cruz-gap-closing-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30657","title":{"rendered":"O’Rourke vs. Cruz: gap closing, maybe?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke is expressing optimism in a new University of Texas\/Texas Tribune poll that shows his race with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz narrowing to just a five-point margin for the Cruz Missile.<\/p>\n

Hmm. That’s fine, Beto. Let’s dive just a little bit deeper, though, shall we?<\/p>\n

The poll puts the Republican Cruz at 41 percent; the Democratic challenger, O’Rourke, is at 36 percent. When I examine these polls, I tend to look at the 50-percent threshold. Neither of these fellows is close to it. That renders these poll numbers virtually useless.<\/p>\n

O’Rourke, though, said this via Twitter: A brand-new poll has us down by just 5 points. We\u2019re closing the gap in this race for Senate — and we rely 100% on grassroots donations from people like you to power our campaign. Let\u2019s keep the momentum going and get Beto in the Senate!<\/em><\/p>\n

Hey, I want O’Rourke to represent me in the U.S. Senate at the start of 2019. The young man needs to stop getting ahead of himself.<\/p>\n\n

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U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke is expressing optimism in a new University of Texas\/Texas Tribune poll that shows his race with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz narrowing to just a five-point margin for the Cruz Missile. Hmm. That’s fine, Beto. Let’s dive just a little bit deeper, though, shall we? The poll puts the Republican Cruz at … Continue reading O’Rourke vs. Cruz: gap closing, maybe?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[7043,4537,4728,5051],"class_list":["post-30657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-beto-orourke","tag-ted-cruz","tag-texas-tribune","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30662,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30657\/revisions\/30662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}