ELECTIONS ARE COMING: TED CRUZ FOR SENATE IN TEXAS
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/300971/cruz-reaches-runoff-katrina-trinko
In this Tuesday’s Texas Senate primary, Ted Cruz has one objective: Force a runoff.
A primary runoff would allow Cruz to directly square off with lieutenant governor David Dewhurst, who is currently leading in the polls. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two contenders will face each other in a runoff on July 31.
“The best guess right now is there’s going to be a runoff, and the runoff is going to be between Ted Cruz and David Dewhurst,” says Mark P. Jones, a political-science professor at Rice University.
A veritable who’s who of conservative stars have endorsed Cruz, with his backers including Rick Santorum, Jim DeMint, and Rand Paul. FreedomWorks and the Club for Growth have both endorsed him, with the latter spending around $2 million to tout Cruz. National Review has endorsed him, as have talk-radio hosts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin.
Cruz campaign manager John Drogin describes the race as “ground zero in the battle between the tea-party conservatives and the establishment.” He compares it to Indiana, where conservative Richard Mourdock beat Dick Lugar in the recent Senate primary, and to Nebraska, “another situation where a conservative beat an establishment moderate,” when state legislator Deb Fischer defeated the state treasurer and state attorney general in a primary. Like Fischer, Cruz has been endorsed by Sarah Palin.
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