he pretends his name is ted. your thoughts, sarah? yeah, joy, call him felito. no, i don t think that ted cruz at this point can argue he s not worried about beto o rourke. you don t run a statewide radio ad about your opponent unless you re worried. everything that s happening in that ad, he s throwing meat to his base but he s obviously nervous, very nervous about this young congressman who has traveled to 261 counties so far. ted cruz is up only 45-37 over o rourke. this is winnable by the democrats. you have to believe the koch brothers will come in for cruz, when we get to the general election he ll have a lot more money. democrats haven t had anything to be encouraged about in this
gun reform could be a defining issue in the u.s. senate race in texas where democrats are hoping for a blue wave this november. republican incumbent ted cruz will face democratic candidate beto o rourke. joining me now, jim moore and sarah slayman. thank you both for being here. jim, i want to talk to you about old ted cruz. ted cruz, a lot of people may forget, came to the country s attention when he was the solicitor general of texas, a position he held for five years, and was constantly weighing in on issues that had nothing to do with texas but were matters of national import, including the heller decision which changed precedent on the right to bear arms of an individual. in 2008, cruz was wading into a case that had no immediate connection to texas. he clearly saw the heller case
she s so far outside the mainstream on marriage equality, women s productive freedoms. mainstream america doesn t seem very excited to go out and vote this. sarah, when i see what she has to offer her policies, all i can think about is, we ve got another michele bachmann on our hands. what do you think? absolutely. yig bruce brayly is sitting pretty for. when you look at the issues page it s a laugh. she s anywhere from a decade to two decades behind and her message about repealing obama air, the affordable care act. americans are tired of the pandering and obstruction. they re tired of republicans with no solutions. john s right that our side we have to come out and vote. she s not offering anything new or maverick or independent to those iowa independent voters. she s offering more of the same and leaving a juan families behind and a juan farm iowaian farmers behind so she can sit around and talk about guns and obama care. it s old news. i don t think there s ever
earnst embraces privatizing social security and she s going right from the koch playbook. she wants to abolish the department of education and the environmental protection agency. industry s going to love that. the self-proclaimed farm girl said she would have voted against the farm bill? joni erns eechlt is an extremist. she may have won the support of some, maybe even sarah palin and the tea party. it may have won her the republican primary, but the question is, can she go on to win the general in a purple state like iowa? a state like iowa that s loaded with independence? an independent thinkers. joining me tonight on our rapid response panel. political tv host and sarah slayman, field director for the fort ben democratic party in ticks. great to have you both with us tonight. this is interesting because the standpoint that all of the
this point? it s a very uphill battle. i think something that s recognized by naeshl democranats well. and the candidate most likely to have the narrowest margin of despeet is la tee shall. she s a stronger candidate than wendy davis and is running against a weaker republican candidate, dan patrick, who i think is quite rightly located on the very right edge of the republican idea lodge kwhal spectrum here in texas. he s the most conservative senator in the texas senate and that s among a group of very conservative senators. sarah, your response to what the professor said about wendy davis. is us that far of a reach in your opinion? i don t think it s that far of a reach at all. had a successful vote by mail initiative in the texas democratic party and if you look at local races where we won, we re kicking butt with that and bringing people into the process for the first time.