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Mcallen – Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation Votes in the United States Supreme Court: Sunday US Senate Debate between US Senator Ted Cruz and US Representative Beto O'Rourke in Houston postponed to a later date.
The Cruz campaign notified the O'Rourke campaign and the University of Houston, which was to organize the debate on Sunday, would not go as planned.
The 21 senators of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, to which Cruz sits, met Friday to hold the first of a series of votes on the appointment of Kavanaugh to the highest court in the country. The votes, which are likely to last the entire weekend, begin just one day after Kavanaugh firmly and tearfully rejected an allegation of sexual assault before the committee on Thursday. Kavanaugh's accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, also testified in tears and before the committee earlier in the day.
Cruz also had to cancel his campaign event Friday in El Paso because of committee votes, according to the University of Houston.
Sunday's debate was the second of three scheduled debates. The first, September 20 in Dallas, was focused on immigration. O 'Rourke has been entertained with hundreds of thousands of unauthorized immigrant youth known as' Dreamers'. Meanwhile, Cruz has hit O 'Rourke to be more focused on the lives of illegal immigrants than American citizens.
Although the fate of this second debate is unknown, the third debate is scheduled for October 16 in San Antonio. Two days after the debate in San Antonio, O'Rourke will be in the valley for a hotel on October 18 at CNN. The advance vote begins four days after the town hall.
This city hall may be O'Rourke's last visit to South Texas before election day in November. More recently, O'Rourke was here Sunday for a rally in Edinburg that brought together 2,000 people. It was by far the largest crowd in South Texas O'Rourke during his six visits to the valley in the last 18 months.
Cruz, meanwhile, has organized a campaign event in the valley since the March primary. The National Border Patrol Council, the 18,000-strong border police union, approved Cruz at RGV headquarters in Edinburg in April.
Cruz has made another trip to the valley since then, but it was officially as a senator and in a more emergency setting. In June, when President Trump's family separation policy was in effect, Cruz and his Republican counterpart in Texas, US Senator John Cornyn, went to an immigration detention center in Brownsville. It was the first time that the two Texan senators were in the valley at the same time.
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