Starting to take our country back one rep at a time...

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Rising Dem star Congressman Beto O'Rourke said "it's very likely" that he'll challenge Ted Cruz for his Senate seat in 2018.

Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) expects to challenge Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for his Senate seat in 2018, the Texas Tribune reported.

"It's very likely that I will run for Senate in 2018," the 44-year-old El Paso representative told the outlet.

O'Rourke added that he feels "encouraged" by the feedback he's received as he considers a bid.


While Cruz has enjoyed conservative darling status since he joined the Senate after the 2012 election, rumblings about a potential Senate challenge have grown louder on both the left and the right since Cruz dropped out of the 2016 presidential race.

Democrats have long eyed Texas's growing Hispanic population as proof that the state could turn blue one day — but that optimism has never come to fruition. The party targeted Texas's 2014 race for governor, but Republicans cruised to an easy victory.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/312990-texas-democrat-im-very-likely-to-run-against-cruz

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1. Texas was blue at one time and in larger metro areas they are voting blue, it can happen one at a

Time. I would love to see Cruz leave, he does not represent Texas, hopefully we can get a strong Democrat to win and get him out. He is not liked by Congress either.

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2. More like he is despised by almost everyone except his father..

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3. good point there