Democrats have high hopes for candidates you have never heard of to unseat John Cornyn in Senate race

The Hill:
Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) is facing the toughest election fight of his political career as he seeks a fourth term in a once deep-red state that Democrats view as a competitive battleground.

Bolstered by record fundraising, the Texas Democratic Party is going all out to win the party’s first statewide election in 25 years, launching a multi-million dollar war room to deliver data and messaging to define Cornyn as beholden to President Trump.

The Democrats have high hopes for their deep field of potential challengers, led at the moment by Mary Jennings Hegar, the 43-year-old motorcycle-riding mother and Air Force veteran with a penchant for viral ads.

When Cornyn won reelection during the 2014 midterms, he did so with 2.8 million votes. He’ll have to blow past that this year after former Rep. Beto O’Rourke turned out more than 4 million Texas Democrats in the 2018 midterms.

Cornyn will have to chip away at the broader political forces that are reshaping Texas, as well as President Trump’s relative weakness here during a presidential election year. Trump’s 9-point margin of victory in Texas in 2016 was the worst showing for a GOP presidential candidate in 20 years.

Still, Texas Republicans are cautiously optimistic about Cornyn’s prospects, describing him as a far less polarizing figure than Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who was nearly toppled by O’Rourke in 2018.

“He’s a much stronger candidate than Cruz and in any other year, he’d be untouchable, he’d have it in walk,” said Bill Miller, a GOP lobbyist and consultant in Austin. “This year, because of Trump, it’s a different dynamic. The Democrats will have a bloody primary and that’s not the best way to take on an incumbent, but they’re hoping for magic at the top of the ticket. Cornyn is strong, but he’s vulnerable.”

Cornyn begins from a position of financial strength, with more than $10.3 million in the bank. Hegar, the top fundraiser so far on the Democratic side, had just over $1 million at the end of June.
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Hegar's $1 million is a long way from the $80 million that O'Rouke spent against Ted Cruz who spent half that much.  I suspect that if the raced was polled at this point the response to what people thought of Hegar and the other Democrat candidates would be "Who?" 

While the Democrats made some gains with suburban women in 2018, they are losing support in the Hispanic community and in South Texas.  Border officials are fed up with the strain on their budget caused by the Democrats refusal to deal with the border crisis.  And a Republican recently won a South Texas State Senate race against a Democrat who was well known.

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