state of texas. 16 point plus of the state-wide population. beto o roarke running it up strongly. 57 to 42. only 16% of the vote in. if you re a republican you re saying okay, this is texas. go back to the dna. maybe it will. but only 16 % of the vote reporting in one of the fastest growing counties in the state, and in the country and guess what, beto o roarke running it up. you pull out the map and look and say what are they doing in ted cruz head quarters? where the votes? a lot of republican votes. don t discount them. in a close race every vote counts, even if your winning, you look at harris county and say that doesn t count. it does count when there are 200 plus of them. and there are. you count them all, that s why they cast them. there are opportunities for ted cruz here. but this is an interesting map. something we haven t looked at in a long time. a competitive state-wide race in the state of texas. you come in. i want to check and see if the
folks want to contribute to win the race. if they want to contribute to another campaign, they re welcome to do that. we re going to spare no expense. he s not sharing any of that money with other senate democratic candidates. it may sound sort of selfish, but beto o roarke raised a lot of money. he s running in texas. it s an expensive state. he raised $38 million from july 1st to september 30th. he spent 29 million. we released this poll around noon today. okay. remember this race was closer at the end of the summer. 52-45. it says it s still reason range. ted cruz is not at 62. but this is always the problem. that s the number to focus on. democratic candidates in texas over the last several decades, if they re a good candidate, they can get to 45. it s getting to 49 and 50 that s always the problem. beto o roarke running up against the same hard ceiling.