{"id":30937,"date":"2018-07-12T22:41:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T22:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30937"},"modified":"2018-07-12T22:41:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T22:41:38","slug":"a-word-of-caution-to-betos-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30937","title":{"rendered":"A word of caution to Beto&#8217;s supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/beto-orourke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30938\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/beto-orourke-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/beto-orourke-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/beto-orourke-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/beto-orourke.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beto O&#8217;Rourke has raised more money than Ted Cruz in the race for Cruz&#8217;s U.S. Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>I am cheered by that news. I want the Democratic congressman from El Paso to defeat the Cruz Missile.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I want to offer a brief word of caution. More money doesn&#8217;t necessarily translate to more votes.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what the Texas Tribune is reporting:<\/p>\n<p><em>Beto O\u2019Rourke, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas, raised more than $10.4 million over the past three months, he announced Wednesday, revealing a sum that takes his already massive fundraising to new heights.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And the El Paso congressman again vastly outraised the Republican incumbent, Ted Cruz, who took in less than half of his challenger\u2019s haul \u2014 $4.6 million \u2014 in the same time, according to his campaign. O\u2019Rourke also took a decisive lead in cash on hand over Cruz with four months to Election Day, $14 million to $10.4 million.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>O\u2019Rourke\u2019s latest haul is easily his biggest yet \u2014 topping the $6.7 million he raked in during the first quarter, which was far more than Cruz raised for the same period. Cruz\u2019s second-quarter fundraising also was his largest yet, though not nearly enough to keep up with O\u2019Rourke\u2019s torrid pace.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>O\u2019Rourke has now outraised Cruz for every period but one since O\u2019Rourke launched his Senate bid in March 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll conclude simply by reminding Beto&#8217;s Brigade that longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley outspent his primary challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by <em>18-to-1<\/em> this past month &#8230; and he still lost the primary.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beto O&#8217;Rourke has raised more money than Ted Cruz in the race for Cruz&#8217;s U.S. Senate seat. I am cheered by that news. I want the Democratic congressman from El Paso to defeat the Cruz Missile. That said, I want to offer a brief word of caution. More money doesn&#8217;t necessarily translate to more votes. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30937\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A word of caution to Beto&#8217;s supporters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[7043,4537,5051],"class_list":["post-30937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-beto-orourke","tag-ted-cruz","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30937","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=30937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30939,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30937\/revisions\/30939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}