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Jack Valentino

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14. Ted Cruz had much better approval numbers going into that election, he was

Reply to lostincalifornia (Original post)

Wed May 27, 2026, 12:34 AM

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still "above water" (more approval than disapproval in Texas polls) despite Democratic hopes. Paxton has NEGATIVE approval numbers
and negative GE polls.... and a much bigger Trump millstone around his neck than 2018,
and angrier Democrats, independents and hispanics all more anxious to vote, than in 2018...

This year's midterm election is looking much more like 2006 than 2018...
now we have another unpopular Republican war, just as in 2006...

I can understand the skepticism about Texas,
but this is an election year unlike any other,
with a Texas Republican Senate nominee worse than any other in memory---

so voicing that skepticism now is DEFEATIST talk, and extremely inappropriate at this moment!

HELL, I am more confident that the Democrat will win the Senate seat in TEXAS this year,
than I am about the Senate seat in my own state of Michigan, where we haven't elected a Republican
to the US Senate since 1994!---- according to all the data I have seen-- the Texas numbers are better!

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