With his poll numbers tanking O'Rourke goes negative

Washington Examiner:
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"This morning, the O'Rourke campaign released the dogs ... It's clear their their campaign pollsters ... have told them they're in trouble," Cruz said after holding a roundtable with law enforcement officers. "You gotta understand that his campaign is desperate, and so he's willing to say things in the TV camera that he knows aren't true."

Perhaps sensing the polls are moving in the wrong direction for him, O'Rourke leveled multiple personal attacks against the incumbent Republican. On one occasion, he called him "dishonest" while digging up President Trump's "Lyin' Ted" nickname from the 2016 campaign, saying it stuck "because it's true."

O'Rourke's attacks came despite telling reporters just over 24 hours before Tuesday's debate that he intended to continue to run a positive campaign in the final three weeks before the midterm elections, saying that he is "sick" of negative attacks.

"I won't go negative. It won't be personal. I'm not going to be partisan. I'm not going to be petty. People are sick of that stuff. I'm sick of that stuff," O'Rourke said. "And if I'm going to walk the talk, this is my chance to do it in the remaining 22 days with everything on the line. We're not only going to run this the right way, but we're going to win this the right way."

O'Rourke himself has seen his favorability numbers flip upside down in Texas despite the largely positive campaign. According to the latest Quinnipiac poll, 47 percent of voters view O'Rourke unfavorably to 45 percent favorable.

As for Cruz allies and top Republicans, they are sensing that O'Rourke is nearing the end. Cruz's campaign revealed Tuesday night that a new internal poll shows them ahead by 11 points, all the while they hold a 7-point advantage in the latest RealClearPolitics average.
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The end will come in less than three weeks and the race is about where I thought it would be all along with Cruz holding a safe winning margin.  O'Rourke has run a campaign that is probably more liberal than the one Hillary Clinton ran and his base appears to be the liberal media and not Texas voters.  He could probably be more competitive in California or Massachusetts than he is now in Texas.

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