The poll also showed House Speaker Dade Phelan with low approval rating among Texans after a heated primary battle.
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“Part of the upshot of that is having gone through such a relatively easy primary,” he added. “His lack of recognition at this point is in part a product of the success of his primary strategy which was to ignore his opponent. But the lack of newsworthy in a primary I think hurt him.” Importantly, Henson said, Cruz was still holding his grip on GOP voters with 79% of Republicans approving of him and only 11% disapproving.Henson also said the numbers might reflect an attempt by Cruz’s camp in the last year to highlight his bipartisan work in the Senate.
Thirty-six percent of voters said they were more likely to vote for Trump after the convictions, with 27% of those saying the convictions made them much more likely to do so.“A big chunk of that is just more social expression than something that's shaking up the race in any way,” he said. “ were pretty likely to vote for him anyway.”
“The governor’s numbers remain very strong here and I think we shouldn't be particularly surprised by that,” Henson said. “Gov. Abbott is very attentive to politics and he does a good job of knowing particularly what his base constituency wants.”
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