Texas has 155 delegates up for grabs in its Republican primary next week, but for Sen. Ted Cruz, the stakes in his home state are immeasurable.A victory by front-runner Donald Trump in Tuesday’s contest would knock the wind out of Cruz’s bid for the nomination.Three polls released this week show Cruz leading in Texas by margins of between one and 15 percentage points. But Trump’s commanding win in the Nevada caucuses, his third victory in a row, means Cruz is going to have to fight that much harder on his home turf, starting with Thursday’s debate in Houston.“Trump is succeeding everywhere right now, and Texas is not immune to that,” said Matt Mackowiak, a GOP political consultant in Austin who isn’t aligned with any presidential candidate. “If Trump were to defeat Cruz in Texas, it would be an earthquake, an absolute earthquake.”
I want to hear from my fellow SouthWest nation. Your economy centers around oil exports and Mexico/California trade. Together the three of us are as big as Germany. So what would a Yawker real estate developer know about Texas and he Great SouthWest?
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