So I attended some fundraiser (for some PAC that jointly benefited John Cornyn and NRSC) last night where John Cornyn spoke. (Not voluntarily, it was work-related, and the open bar and free food weren't bad, and I damn sure didn't give any money). We dems in attendance played talking points bingo. "Soros is paying protesters." "Kavanaugh was treated horribly by the mean democrats."
The actually interesting thing from his speech is that at one point he starts talking about the midterms. After conceding that the democrats will take control of the house, he starts talking about the senate. He goes down the list of all the competitive senate races by state and name: (this is nearly verbatim):
"Last night I was in Nashville campaigning with Blackburn. We're confident we will keep that seat. We think Rick Scott will win Florida, but it will be close. In Arizona, McSally is a bit behind but we're not sure how accurate the polling is there. We're very confident that Cramer will win in North Dakota and that Heller will hang on in Nevada. Indiana is going down to the wire but I'm going up there to campaign for Braun....Welp thanks for coming and enjoy the great food and drink."
Fin. Not a single mention of Ted Cruz or the Texas senate race. If you didn't know any better, you wouldn't know there was even a senate race going on in Texas. Both republicans and democrats talked afterwards about how bizarre that was.