Beto O’Rourke talks to his supporters as he walks from his town hall at San Jacinto Plaza to the El Paso County Courthouse where he voted on the last day of early voting Saturday March 10
Controversy has arisen around the names of the candidates as Cruz, a staunch conservative and Catholic, unveiled a political advertisement featuring a song accusing O'Rourke - who uses a common Latino first name, although he is not of Latino descent - of changing his name to win voters.
After playing the song, Colbert rolled a clip of Cruz defending his attack on O'Rourke's name during an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo.
"He's got enough money also to be advertising, but whether or not he can go toe to toe with Cruz at $2, $3, $4 million a week down the stretch of a general election, very much remains to be seen".
Republicans say the results in this week's primary in Texas raise serious doubts about the blue wave that Democrats are counting in the November midterm elections. Nonetheless, he has a pretty steep mountain to climb to unseat Cruz in red-state Texas.
O'Rourke has not commented on Cruz's choice of name.
Rep. O'Rourke said, "We should be leading the way on immigration reform, not being the sole Senator as Ted Cruz was, to turn his back on Texas and his opportunity to lead on an issue that we know better than anyone else better than any other part of the country".
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Oddly, the jingle does not mention the fact that the senator's given name is Rafael Edward Cruz, nor the fact that he was born in Canada.
Voters take to the polls in the primary election at West University Elementary on Tuesday, March 6, 2018, in Houston. With little good news to share, they quoted Sen. While Cruz does have a cash-on-hand advantage over O'Rourke, the Democratic challenger is only wavering by $1 million. "I think everyone counts El Paso out, and that's a great thing". "Plus, I suspect voters are getting exhausted of Trump's schtick from Trump; they're unlikely to want a pale imitation".
O'Rourke, whose family has lived in El Paso for four generations, said Beto was a nickname given to him by his parents at birth.
A more complicated problem for Cruz is that a closer-than-expected Senate race could damage his already-slim chances at winning the executive position he so obviously covets. "I am the son of my father Raphael Cruz, an immigrant from Cuba who came to Texas with nothing".
Though most polls and political analysts believe Cruz still has the edge over O'Rouke, there are signs that he could lose.
"Those are wonderfully popular positions if you're running for the Senate in NY or MA or California", Cruz said on CNN's "New Day".
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