Midterm 2018 Election Pulse

The Hill reports record-breaking early voter turnout

Javier Cortez, Copy Editor • November 6, 2018

Texas Senate candidate @BetoORourke walked with his family from their Sunset Heights home to the polling station at the El Paso Community College Rio Grande Campus. #TXSen #BetoForSenate #BetoForTexas pic.twitter.com/h3RN5VbOxQ

— mark lambie (@LambieMark) November 6, 2018

Students at UTEP’s Centennial Plaza are trying to rally people to vote in the midterm elections by offering rides to the polling stations on Tuesday, Nov. 6. @UTEP_Prospector #ElectionDay #MidtermElection2018 pic.twitter.com/0BcLBrVLx2

— Valeria Olivares (@valeriaoliesc) November 6, 2018

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Beto O' Rourke's lead trims to less than 2 percent, with more than a third of the vote counted #MidtermElections2018

— Edwin Delgado🤙🏼 (@EdwinDelgado13) November 7, 2018

Long lines of people are forming just outside of Southwest University Park, waiting to enter the stadium for Beto’s watch party.@UTEP_Prospector #ElectionDay #MidtermElection2018 pic.twitter.com/TzVfSsqleb

— Andrea Valdez-Rivas (@AndreaVRNews) November 7, 2018

El Paso County, home to @BetoORourke, now over 200,000 votes with 30 minutes of voting remaining. This is up from 82,000 in 2014, and nearing the 219,000 from 2016.

— Bob Moore (@BobMooreNews) November 7, 2018

People at Veronica Escobar’s watch party in Later, Later react to @CNN’s livestream of the midterm elections on Nov. 6.@UTEP_Prospector #ElectionDay⁠ ⁠ #MidtermElection2018 pic.twitter.com/tQaSwDttMD

— Valeria Olivares (@valeriaoliesc) November 7, 2018

In his El Paso County home, @BetoORourke wins 74% of the early vote.

— Bob Moore (@BobMooreNews) November 7, 2018

BREAKING: Veronica Escobar is elected into the U.S. House, becoming El Paso’s first woman in Congress and the first Texas Latina in the U.S. House on Nov. 6.@UTEP_Prospector #ElectionDay #MidtermElection2018 pic.twitter.com/udPPPFu6yb

— Valeria Olivares (@valeriaoliesc) November 7, 2018

Athough not a surprise Beto O'Rourke comes up short and losses to Ted Cruz in the senate. A small consolation for El Paso voters @vgescobar will become the first Latina Texas has sent to Congress. #MidtermElections2018

— Edwin Delgado🤙🏼 (@EdwinDelgado13) November 7, 2018

Texas Senate candidate ⁦@BetoORourke⁩ just came out to meet with his family and closest friends. pic.twitter.com/6JT1fpjVbq

— Bob Moore (@BobMooreNews) November 7, 2018

LIVE: Ted Cruz speaks after @NBCNews projects he is re-elected to Senate. https://t.co/T0OlPOEej3

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 7, 2018

LIVE: Beto O'Rourke speaks after @NBCNews projects Ted Cruz wins Texas Senate race. https://t.co/0FUdb5iB00

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 7, 2018

Texas 2018 midterm election results: Republicans win U.S. Senate, Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller, Agriculture, Land, and Railroad Commissioner, as well as the 3 seats in the Texas Supreme Court.#ElectionDay #Midterms2018

— The Prospector (@UTEP_Prospector) November 7, 2018

About the Contributor

Javier Cortez, Staff Reporter

Javier Cortez is a staff reporter for The Prospector. He is a senior multimedia journalism major, with a minor in English Rhetoric. Javier was born and raised in El Paso, TX and before coming to UTEP in the summer of 2012, he graduated from Irvin High School, where he was a four-year varsity tennis player, a member of student council and a class officer for his graduating class. He has also worked for the El Paso Diablos as a sports information intern on their media relations team. In his spare time, Javier loves to write columns for the perspectives section in the school newspaper—whether it is sports, pop culture, religion, and society he loves to write about it. To go along with writing, Javier loves reading anything about sports, religion, and non-fiction.