claim: says a poll found him the only republican candidate who could beat barack obama in texas -- and by eight points.
author: mitt romney
evidence_1: nov 6, 2018 ... former president barack obama attends a campaign rally with ... carol miller,  who is running for the republican nomination in west ... at a national day of  prayer event in point pleasant on may 3, 2018. .... what does the polling say? ....  the latest nyt/siena college poll found him 9 points ahead of her.
evidence_2: feb 2, 2018 ... you can see this at work in polling that marist college did of likely voters and all  ... texas voters are a lot more republican than adults overall ... but it also found  cruz's net favorability rating at just +8 points, which ... in 2012, mitt romney beat  obama there by 16 points; in 2016, trump beat clinton by 9.
evidence_3: oct 12, 2018 ... mr. cruz, the texas republican senator, held an eight-point lead in a new times  poll over mr. o'rourke, his democratic challenger, in one of the most ... bounty  with better-positioned candidates and others who say his only .... he boasts of  traveling to all 254 texas counties, even those so red “you can see ...
evidence_4: dec 12, 2018 ... in 8 mins / newsletters ... democratic strategists say it's only one poll and it's too  early to know ... cory booker or kamala harris could have been the candidate to  beat. ... obama, and he's got that bobby kennedy feel to him," said watts. ... he  won over moderate republicans in the suburbs of texas while ...
evidence_5: california was one of the super tuesday states that could provide a large  number of delegates to the candidates. obama trailed in the california polling by  an ...