In local news:
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For those interested in seeing what type of an impact Beto O’Rourke would have in Midland, the early voting results show Ted Cruz earned 78.53 percent of the vote. That is a higher percentage of the voter than Donald Trump earned in 2016.
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I know that this hellhole of a town is hard core Republican, with rampant corruption, poor schools, and disastrous infrastructure, but these numbers are a complete shock to me.
Turnout here was huge, by historical comparison, and it led me to believe that Beto would get at least 40% of the vote (after all, there are a lot of youngish engineers here), but boy was I wrong.
Or perhaps the voting machines were rigged.....