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The Election Issue HOW TO VOTE
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DACA recipients weigh in on their inability to vote in an election that affects them.
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Excitement around Cruz, O’Rourke race spikes as young voters mobilize enthusiasm for younger voters, and especially for Democratic voters, particularly in a state like Texas, where the Democratic party rarely runs a candidate that excites a large number of people,” Blank said. iram Garcia remembers interning for Beto O’Rourke has visited UT-Austin multiple times, includO’Rourke in 2015 when the El Paso congressing a talk at the AT&T Conference Center and a late night man was only known within the border city’s event at Kerbey Lane on Guadalupe Street. He has visitlimits. Garcia talked to O’Rourke about his ed other universities such as Texas A&M, Baylor Univerpossible run as a Democrat for U.S. Senate and how O’Rosity and the University of Houston as a part of a tour of urke said he would ignore political strategists and appeal college campuses. to a historically apathetic demographic — young voters. Cruz, on the other hand, did not visit the UT-Aus“I honestly saw a lot of potential in him the first time tin campus during the campaign, but did hold events that I interned for him,” said Garcia, an international rela- at the campuses of Texas A&M and Midwestern State tions and government senior. “I said University and Christian Fellowship it many times to many friends — that Church near UT–Rio Grande Valley. I felt Beto had a charisma and a kind In a statement to The Daily Texan, of exceptional personality that I felt Cruz said he expected young people would have catapulted him to a bigto vote for him because they would ger position in politics.” see his policies are simply better I honestly saw a lot of UT-Austin students are caught than O’Rourke’s. potential in him the in the crosshairs of the rallies, social “Young people are smarter than commentary and mobilization efforts they’re sometimes portrayed in the first time that I into move a typically nonvoting populamedia, and a lot of them are seeing terned for him. I said tion to the polls. through Beto’s flirtations with socialThe race between O’Rourke and ism and extreme rhetoric,” Cruz said. it many times to many incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz “They, like a vast majority of their felfriends — that I felt Beto low Texans, want unity, freedom, and is one of the most closely watched Senate races in history. There has not prosperity, and that’s what I work evhad a charisma and been a Democratic senator from Texery day to deliver.” a kind of exceptional as since Sen. Bob Krueger lost reelecCruz said he supports young peotion in 1993. ple’s engagement — no matter their personality.” O’Rourke is seen across social politics. When it comes to the race, media giving impassioned speeches Cruz said O’Rourke undermines young HIRAM GARCIA STUDENT and sweating in a blue button-down, people’s desires for success and freewhile Cruz rallies his Republican base dom. Cruz also said O’Rourke wants next to President Donald Trump. policies that could negatively affect “I think there was a lot of excitement over the Wendy young people, such as higher taxes. Davis campaign back in 2014, but nowhere near as much “For the same reason, it’s a big mistake to put young excitement as there has been around Beto,” said Joshua people into Beto’s basket,” Cruz said. “A lot of younger votBlank, manager of research and polling for the Texas Poliers are just getting their first jobs and feeling the sting of tics Project, a nonpartisan political research outfit. taxes for the first time — taxes that Beto O’Rourke voted There is certainly excitement around the midterm elecagainst lowering.” tions as a whole on campus, as 23,795 people early voted The O’Rourke campaign did not respond to repeated at the Flawn Academic Center and the Perry-Castañeda Lirequests for comment from the Texan. brary polling locations, according to Travis County Clerk’s Blank, the political researcher, said Cruz’s tactics appeal Office data. In the 2014 midterm elections, only 6,164 peomainly to older and conservative audiences, but that will ple early voted at UT’s FAC polling location, the only one help him gain the support of conservative young people on campus at the time. S E N A T E page 2 “I think Beto’s campaign has certainly created a lot of
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