Ted Cruz Leads Beto O’Rourke In Recent Polls

If you want to run in Texas, you can’t be a liberal man.

Things are really looking up.

According to a fairly recent Quinnipiac University poll, Sen. Cruz is leading O’Rourke, 54 percent to 45 percent. The biggest difference in this poll? They surveyed likely voters– not just registered. As you know, a lot of registered voters don’t vote at all, so their opinions are kinda irrelevant.

Released Tuesday, the survey found Cruz with 54 percent support and O’Rourke, an El Paso congressman, with 45 percent. Only 1 percent of those polled were undecided.

“The Texas U.S. Senate race between Sen. Ted Cruz and Congressman Beto O’Rourke, and Democratic hopes for an upset win there, have boosted talk of a Senate takeover,” Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said in a news release. “These numbers may calm that talk.”

It’s the first time Quinnipiac has released a likely voter survey in the Senate race. Quinnipiac previously polled registered voters three times, finding Cruz ahead by 6 points in August, 11 in May and 3 in April.

I’ll feel better once I start seeing double digit leads. Here’s the latest from RCP:

Let’s go Texas!

h/t Texas Tribune