With primary win, Beto O’Rourke will face Ted Cruz in Senate race

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The battle between Beto O’Rourke and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has officially begun.
O’Rourke, who was favored to win the Democratic primary, easily secured his slot by a 63 percent margin, according to the Associated Press. The other Democratic primary candidates were Edward Kimbrough and Sema Hernandez. Cruz easily won his GOP primary with 84 percent of the vote. 
O’Rourke, an El Paso congressman, has spent the past few months crisscrossing Texas t