TX-Quinnipiac: Trump +1

[Calthrina950]

Quinnipiac's final poll of Texas in 2018 was 51/46 Cruz, so not sure why people are saying they underestimated Beto considering they got the race damn near exactly right and clearly well within the margin of error.

Trump has bumbled his way into making Texas a toss-up. Incredible that the GOP didn't pull the trigger on this guy when they had a golden opportunity to. Imagine where the party would be right now if President Pence handled covid-19 in a competent manner.

I dunno.  If Trump had just randomly passed away or something, I agree that Pence would be in much better shape for November than Trump currently is now.  But if the Republican party had thrown him under the bus, I think a huge number of Republicans would be extremely pissed off and demoralized and would just stay home. Look at what happened to Republican turnout in the 74 midterms after Watergate.

I must agree with these. Trump's ardent supporters would have held Republicans responsible if he had been removed from office, and no doubt would have retaliated in the primaries against some of them. Turnout will be critical in this election, and they would be less enthused to turnout without their "idol" at the top of the ticket.

[Calthrina950]

Trump and Unbeatable Titan John Cornyn are somehow less popular than the incredibly unpopular Ted Cruz with his +3 approval rating, aka the only reason a Democrat came within three percentage points of winning a Senate race in TX.

I'm not surprised about Trump, but in a way, I am about Cornyn. Cornyn has been a relative backbencher during his nearly twenty years in the Senate, and has been less controversial than Cruz. But I guess that Cruz's greater national visibility is of a net benefit with him to the base. And Abbott is significantly more popular than Trump, Cornyn, and Cruz.