With Democrats targeting six seats, Texas starts at the center of the conversation about the House majority in 2020. But the Lone Star State is still on the periphery of the presidential and Senate battlefields.
On one hand, despite the national headwinds that should have helped the Democratic nominee sail to victory during the midterms, Beto O’Rourke still failed to reach 50 percent in 2018. On the other hand, GOP Sen. Ted Cruz’s narrow margin of victory gave Democrats a glimmer of hope that the decade-long prediction of a purple Texas could finally be coming to fruition.
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