If you'll remember, Ted Cruz won a runoff against David Dewhurst, and he had finished pretty far back, like 20, 20 points back in the first round ended up winning handily in a runoff. It's because More conservative voters vote in the runoff than they do in the primary. Second of all, we had six other people in the race. They took 18%. That 18%. We've done the analytics. More of them go to me than they do John Cornyn. (14:36–14:41)
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Asserts that conservative voter turnout is higher in runoffs than in primaries in Texas.
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