Ted Cruz Defeats Beto O’Rourke, Winning Second Senate Term

Republican incumbent Ted Cruz won a second term in his Texas Senate seat on Tuesday, foiling a tough challenge from rising Democratic star Representative Beto O’Rourke. With 30 percent of precincts reporting, Cruz had secured 50.9 percent of the vote, just a sliver over O’Rourke’s 48.5 percent. The Democrat presented the most ominous challenge to a Republican senator from Texas in years, but polls consistently showed Cruz, who came close to winning the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, ahead of O’Rourke.

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