Operatives in both parties stressed the El Pasoan’s unique, prodigious talent as a major factor in 2018. He didn’t answer the Tribune’s attempts for an interview, and his former campaign staff said they don’t know his plans. O’Rourke hasn’t made any indication that he’ll run. Wade that helped them beat the odds in minimizing their losses in last year’s midterm elections. (However, former President Donald Trump could still animate Democratic voters again if he’s the Republican nominee.) Meanwhile, Democrats say their base is still motivated by events like the overturning of Roe v. Republicans won’t be running in a midterm election year with their party’s president at the top of the ticket, as was the case in 2018 when Democrats swept across the country in a show of discontent with the White House. Both Republicans and Democrats say they have forces working in their favor this election cycle.
The question for Texas Democrats is how will they fare without the star power and fundraising prowess of Beto O’Rourke, who let Democrats come within three percentage points from winning statewide office in his bid against Cruz for the first time in decades. “I think like all of us, he's grown into his responsibilities.” John Cornyn, Texas’ senior Republican senator. “Everybody comes here as a novice, and we all learn as we serve in this body,” said Sen. And as his party has taken rightward turns over the past decade, Cruz steadily polls as one of the most popular figures among Texas Republicans. Trumpism has elevated combative lawmakers in Cruz’s mold within the GOP. He’ll run with more power in the Senate and more name recognition around the country. But as he gears up for his second reelection bid in 2024, Cruz is facing a different political terrain than he did in 2018. He still remains unafraid to buck his own party leadership when he feels it’s being insufficiently conservative.
Today the conservative iconoclast still elicits the strong emotions and frequent ire for his bombast and penchant for division. And in his home state, he was facing off against a barnstorming Democratic opponent so formidable that he was drawing GOP voters across the aisle. He was widely derided as Congress’ least likable Republican senator - by members of his own party. Six years ago, Ted Cruz was vulnerable. Meanwhile, the Lincoln Project, the group of “Never-Trumper” Republicans said its next target would be Cruz.WASHINGTON, D.C. Welcome back,” she tweeted on Thursday, without mentioning Cruz by name. “So happy that USA has finally rejoined the Pittsburgh Agreement. “This agreement will do little to affect the climate and will harm the livelihoods of Americans.”Ĭruz’s comments were widely ridiculed, not least by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. “By rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, President Biden indicates he’s more interested in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh,” Cruz tweeted, seemingly of the belief that the deal had something to do with France, rather than being an international agreement to try and tackle climate change that was signed in the French capital.
The US had joined in 2016 under Barack Obama. Perhaps seeking to make headlines to appeal to that chunk of Republicans who have feverishly supported Donald Trump - a calculation that also presumably lay behind his and Hawley’s decision to vote against Biden’s certification - the Texan attacked the new president’s decision to rejoin the Paris Accord on climate.
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