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Looking Back on Beto O'Rourke's Favorability Ratings in His Home State
March 13, 2019 | By: Jim Henson

As the political press awaits Beto O’Rourke’s announcement that he’s ready to “push the button” on a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, we’ve gathered a set of results from the University of Texas / Texas Tribune Poll that chart his rise in his home state.  All of this put him in a strong position to challenge John Cornyn in 2020, but he has apparently chosen ostensibly bigger and better things at the national level. Stay tuned.  (This page contains all of the results below, including more crosstabs for each item as well as trial ballots including O'Rourke from the 2018 election. In the graphics for party identification below, you can click on the legend to toggle subgroups on and off in each graphic.)

February 2019

October 2018

June 2018

February 2018 (barely a year ago!)

October 2017

June 2017 (O'Rourke declared his U.S. Senate candidacy in late March.)

Keywords: 2018 Election 2020 Election Beto O'Rourke

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