Texas Senate Candidate Beto O'Rourke Breaks Fundraising Record The Democrat may be trailing Ted Cruz in the polls, but his effort is raising an <br />unprecedented amount of money. On Friday, O'Rourke's campaign announced a record-smashing third quarter fundraising <br />haul of $38.1 million. It's the most ever raised in a quarter by a <br />U.S. Senate campaign. The campaign, which has rejected PAC money, said the $38.1 million was "powered by 802,836 individual contributions." No Democrat has won statewide office in Texas<br />since 1994. A Quinnipiac University poll released this week found Cruz leading O'Rourke by 9 points, 54% to 45%.
