{"id":31302,"date":"2018-07-25T21:52:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T21:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31302"},"modified":"2018-07-25T21:52:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T21:52:39","slug":"five-u-s-senate-race-debates-very-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31302","title":{"rendered":"Five U.S. Senate race debates? Very good!"},"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_and_Cruz_new_MKC_BD_TT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31303\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Beto_and_Cruz_new_MKC_BD_TT-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Beto_and_Cruz_new_MKC_BD_TT-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Beto_and_Cruz_new_MKC_BD_TT-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Beto_and_Cruz_new_MKC_BD_TT-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Beto_and_Cruz_new_MKC_BD_TT.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, shut my mouth and call me flabbergasted.<\/p>\n<p>Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has pitched a patently capital idea to his Democratic Party challenger, Beto O&#8217;Rourke: Five debates on consecutive Fridays between the two candidates for Cruz&#8217;s Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>Very, very good, Sen. Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>You know how I want this contest to turn out. I want O&#8217;Rourke to defeat Cruz. There. That&#8217;s out there.<\/p>\n<p>However, the incumbent has put forward a thorough airing of the issues that divide the candidates. For that he deserves high praise.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz&#8217;s campaign has proposed the following schedule:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aug. 31 in Dallas<\/strong> on &#8220;Jobs\/Taxes\/Federal Regulations\/National Economy&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sept. 14 in McAllen<\/strong> on &#8220;Immigration\/Border Security\/Criminal Justice\/Supreme Court&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sept. 21 in San Antonio<\/strong> on &#8220;Foreign Policy\/National Security&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oct. 5 in Houston<\/strong> on &#8220;Energy\/Trade\/Texas Economy&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oct. 12 in Lubbock<\/strong> on &#8220;Healthcare\/Obamacare&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That about covers it, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Tribune reported on the Cruz proposal. Read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/07\/25\/ted-cruz-proposes-five-debates-beto-orourke-texas\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That this proposed schedule comes from the incumbent suggests that the race well might be as close as public opinion surveys have indicated over the past several weeks. I lamented just recently that Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has said he has no interest in debating Democratic challenger Mike Collier, which I consider to be a shame.<\/p>\n<p>I want to offer Sen. Cruz &#8212; clearly one of my least favorite Senate incumbents &#8212; a good word for proposing a series of head-to-head joint appearances with the young man I hope defeats him.<\/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>Well, shut my mouth and call me flabbergasted. Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has pitched a patently capital idea to his Democratic Party challenger, Beto O&#8217;Rourke: Five debates on consecutive Fridays between the two candidates for Cruz&#8217;s Senate seat. Very, very good, Sen. Cruz. You know how I want this contest to turn out. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31302\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five U.S. Senate race debates? Very good!<\/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":[18],"tags":[7043,4537,5051],"class_list":["post-31302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/31302","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=31302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31304,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31302\/revisions\/31304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}