specifically? well, let me tell you this, lawrence. as you mentioned earlier, the turnout in texas is record-breaking with nearly or around 5 million texans having already voted. and the strategy is that the beto campaign as well as battleground texas and a lot of texas democratic organizations areal rolling out or featuring voters of color, women, and we re seeing that reflected in the numbers. just as early vote closes last night, we were able to see the surge in first-time voters in texas was bigger than any other state in the country. if you narrow that down a little bit more, you can see that voters who voted for the first time in texas who are 30 years and younger are a lot larger in number than all the voters who are first-time voters in any other state. that s including california. breaking that, you know, much more, you see that older voters have outvoted younger voters 10 to 1 historically. in texas, we re seeing that drop down to 3 to 1 and the young
with two campaign days left, beto o rourke and ted cruz are in a tie. that is a tie within the margin of error. early voting in texas has already surpassed the total vote turnout from the 2014 midterm election. over 5 million early votes already cast. that s more than all of the votes that were cast in 2014, the nonpartisan political report rates this race now as a tossup. ted cruz has embraced the man who he once called unfit for office and a pathological liar.
vote is still surging. now, the o rourke campaign and beto o rourke very carefully not to do what they call negative campaigning. so he does not have ads out there that goes specifically at ted cruz in some kind of attack way. it s a pac that has put out of that ad of donald trump saying these things about ted cruz. now, in another campaign, you might call that a negative ad because it s negative about ted cruz, but it s the guy who endorsed ted cruz saying negative things about ted cruz. i don t know what you call that ad. but i just want to clarify for the audience that whatever you call it, it s not from the o rourke campaign. how is that kind of ad playing in texas? we ve all been expecting it to happen, that they d be running what donald trump used to say about his now friend ted cruz. well, lawrence, it s no secret in texas that ted cruz polls very low. the truth in texas is that there is a trump factor, and everything that comes with it.
traditions, our values, our interests, in a way that s simply not reflected in the rhetoric from the president right now. joining us now from austin, texas, is oscar silva. he s the executive director of battleground texas. and you are trying to drive turnout for beto o rourke to the polls, and the polls indicate that this is going to come down to turnout. it s close enough now that it seems like it s going to come down to turnout. ba wayne noit s going to be today. yes, the turnout in this election in texas is unlike anything i ve seen before. it s very exciting, and although anybody who tells you that they know exactly what s going to happen in texas would be lying to you. what the numbers are showing is that it is an optimistic narrative for texas democrats up and down the ballot. and with just two campaign days left, does the o rourke campaign have a plan that is designed for tuesday s turnout
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