point there, look at the races. ted cruz. he s going to do very well in his race, right? then you look at the races like jeb bush s son, george p. bush did surprisingly well. were you surprised at the turn outfor him? i wasn t. he s done an incredibly good job as texas land commissioner. he can theoretically use that as a spring board to other offices if he should so choose. what i was surprised about is how bido o rourke, cho is very popular in the progressive circles in texas and nationally at this point, he underperformed wendy davis four years ago. wendy davis got 79% of the democratic vote. he underperformed at 61.5%. when i saw that, i said whoa, wait a second. the challengers were no names were no real money. on the flip side, there s evidence of democratic enthuse a
that should worry republicans. 67% of in terms of turnout for democrats, it was 67% of what republicans were. ordinarily during mid-term years like this, it s about in the low to mid 40s. that is positive for democrats. at the same time, i was also surprised to see ted cruz immediately launch an attacked a against o rourke. you don t do that if you re a campaign unless you re worried about it s closer than it seems. trace: he makes a good point. o rourke, cruz came off him and saying this guy is going to come after your guns, going to open up the borders. the whole thing is, you have ted cruz going after him hard and o rourke didn t perform as well as a lot of people thought. yeah, it remains to be seen. on one hand he has way outfund-raised cruz. on the other hand, that