CRUZ/O’ROURKE PREPARE FOR FINAL DEBATE TUESDAY
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and Democratic challenger Congressman Beto O’Rourke will meet Tuesday evening in San Antonio for a televised debate.
Cruz and O'Rourke debated last month but canceled a second one amid Senate votes confirming Bret Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
O'Rourke says he plans to appear at a townhall in the South Texas border town of McAllen that will be carried live Thursday night on CNN.
The network said it had invited Cruz, who declined. Cruz now says if O'Rourke wants a nationally televised debate, he'll get one.
Cruz made the announcement while campaigning Friday in Houston, just hours after O'Rourke announced raising a record $38.1 million over the last three months, tripling Cruz's fund raising total. Cruz previously announced raising $12 million over the same period.
Polls show O'Rourke trailing Cruz by about 10 points. No Democrat has won a statewide office in Texas since 1994.
I read an article from the BBC, “Beto O’Rourke: Democrats dazzled by rising star in Texas”. I found it refreshingly objective. Here’s a couple of quotes.
“Intriguingly when I ask Mr O’Rourke the same question – do you support common ownership of the means of production, he is coy.
It is hard to think of another mainstream US politician who would answer with anything other than the word “no”.
But even given several chances, Mr O’Rourke does not disavow socialism as a creed, instead insisting “the party labels just do not matter anymore. I’m convinced of it. It’s not Republican or Democrat. It’s Texan and American and that’s what we’re standing for in this campaign”.”
Mr. O’Rourke should ask the families of the 100,000,000+ that died as a result fools thinking that life would be better off if the government owned the means of production and it oppressed if not killed those that thought they built things. Russia sent the deplorables to the gulag. China just killed them. Unlike Beto (Beeto), most of us understand that fear keeps you alive and out of the gulag and free of cartel led government for that matter. And unlike Beto, some of us know more than sound bites and actually read books such as “The Gulag Archipelago” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It’s a great, and very real account of how utopian socialism takes care of people.
I’ve seen quite a few in our ISD and around town endorse this Beto guy. I can’t help but think they already know what I’ve spelled out above as many present themselves as educated people. It’s a proven fact that liberals hold harm and fairness well above authority, purity, and loyalty to group. In a way they are two dimensional thinkers and confined to personal (and often narrow) perceptions of harm and fairness . With that in mind, no sense of higher authority, loyalty to family, or the sanctity of real, empirical truth (not this personal truth mumbo jumbo) would keep a leftist from pressing a very subtle and discreet communist agenda on our children.
What’s the point of a debate?
$38.1 MILLION dollars, I would be very curious to know where he got all that money, I highly doubt the majority of it is Texas money!
I heard on a talk show where Sen Cruz was a guest he himself stated that he knew that more than 90% of Beto’s campaign funding came from out of state, primarily California and NY. A concentrated, focused effort to turn Texas blue.
I personally have been surprised that Sen Cruz, with the obvious Hispanic family name, the history of how the family came here from Cuba, is not getting more support from the media; what with THEM promoting immigration of any and all sorts through our Southern border, where the pre-dominant population is Hispanic. He would seem the shining example of the immigrant coming here to “make a better life” that is “reason” given for supporting letting ANYONE come in.