Texas Survey Provides Explanation Into Midterm Election Results

A new survey of Texas voters just how split the state has become along major party lines. The Associated Press VoteCast survey was conducted between Oct. 29 and Tuesday night. It included 3,737 voters and 743 nonvoters.

In terms of the reason why people voted, 31 percent said they support President Donald Trump, 34 percent oppose the president, and 34 percent said he's a non-factor. Those who supported Trump were overwhelmingly Cruz voters while O'Rourke supporters opposed Trump, unsurprisingly. In the same vein, Texans were evenly split in terms of approving and disapproving of the job Trump is doing. This is a slightly different picture painted in 2016 when Trump won Texas with 52.6 percent of the vote compared to Hilary Clinton's 43.4 percent, according to data from Politico.

The VoteCast survey bolsters headlines like "A divided Congress, a divided America" from CNN and "A split America reasserts its divisions in the midterm elections" from the Washington Post expounding on the ideological chasm that continues to grow in the U.S. after the Democrats reclaimed the House and Republicans the Senate.

Democratic favorite Beto O'Rourke lost to Sen. Ted Cruz Tuesday after unofficially collecting 4.015 million votes to his 4.222 million, AP reported. Those figures represent a 50.9 percent share for Cruz and 48.3 percent for O'Rourke.

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