In late November 2018, just weeks after U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz eked out a win against Democratic phenom Beto O’Rourke, Texas’ senior U.S. Sen. John Cornyn went on the radio with a warning: “Texas is no longer, I believe, a reliably red state.” O’Rourke, a former El Paso congressman, had lost by just 215,000 votes, the closest […]

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