PolitiFact : Cruz and O'Rourke running ` neck and neck ' ? 
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Beto O'Rourke Statement : Says "the latest polls show us tied neck-and-neck" with Sen. Ted Cruz . 
A West Texas Democrat seeking to represent the state in the U.S. Senate asserts that he 's already running even with incumbent Ted Cruz . 
We asked Mike Baselice of Austin , a pollster for Republican clients who 's not working for Cruz , to assess the April poll results . 
In a Facebook post , El Paso U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke 's campaign said : "Beto O'Rourke out-raised Senator Ted Cruz in the second financial quarter without taking a DIME from PACs , and the latest polls show us tied neck-and-neck ." 
Blank noted that among the 37 percent of respondents who did not choose between Cruz and O'Rourke , 36 percent identified as moderates , 33 percent identified as conservatives , and 19 percent identified as liberals . 
O'Rourke indeed raised more money than Cruz from April through June 2017 , but Cruz , a Republican , ended the quarter with a balance of $ 5.7 million in campaign cash compared with O'Rourke 's $ 1.9 million . 
Baselice suggested that the poll showed Cruz and O'Rourke with identical levels of support because it surveyed too few Republicans considering the actual Texas electorate . 
Let 's focus the Truth-O-Meter this time on whether the latest polls show O'Rourke "tied neck-and-neck" with Cruz . 
To our inquiry , Jody Casey of O'Rourke 's campaign sent us a web link to an April 2017 USA Today Network news story headlined , "O'Rourke , Castro running even with Cruz , poll shows ." 
-LRB- U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro , D-San Antonio , subsequently said he would n't be challenging Cruz . -RRB- 
In contrast , the poll found 37 percent of respondents with a favorable view of Cruz , 12 percent neither favorable or unfavorable and 45 percent unfavorable -- with 6 percent not knowing or having no opinion . 
According to the story , a statewide poll of 1,000 adults commissioned by the Texas Lyceum , a leadership group , found 30 percent of respondents favoring Cruz , 30 percent backing O'Rourke . 
O'Rourke said , "the latest polls show us tied neck-and-neck" with Cruz . 
For the full skinny , we turned to the Lyceum 's post about the poll , which specifies that it was conducted statewide April 3-9 , 2017 , and that 890 respondents who self-identified as registered voters answered this question : "If the 2018 election for Senate were held today , would you vote for the Republican Ted Cruz , the Democrat Beto O'Rourke , or have n't you thought enough about it ?" 
That poll did n't ask people to pick between Cruz and O'Rourke . 
The April poll "is mainly a reflection of name identification and voter attitudes about" Cruz , he said . 
When they choose to tune into the race , they are going to be predisposed towards supporting Cruz over O'Rourke ."
Beto O'Rourke Statement : Says "the latest polls show us tied neck-and-neck" with Sen. Ted Cruz . 
A West Texas Democrat seeking to represent the state in the U.S. Senate asserts that he 's already running even with [TGT] . 
We asked Mike Baselice of Austin , a pollster for Republican clients who 's not working for [TGT] , to assess the April poll results . 
In a Facebook post , El Paso U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke 's campaign said : "Beto O'Rourke out-raised Senator Ted Cruz in the second financial quarter without taking a DIME from PACs , and the latest polls show us tied neck-and-neck ." 
Blank noted that among the 37 percent of respondents who did not choose between [TGT] and O'Rourke , 36 percent identified as moderates , 33 percent identified as conservatives , and 19 percent identified as liberals . 
O'Rourke indeed raised more money than [TGT] from April through June 2017 , but Cruz , a Republican , ended the quarter with a balance of $ 5.7 million in campaign cash compared with O'Rourke 's $ 1.9 million . 
Baselice suggested that the poll showed [TGT] and O'Rourke with identical levels of support because it surveyed too few Republicans considering the actual Texas electorate . 
Let 's focus the Truth-O-Meter this time on whether the latest polls show O'Rourke "tied neck-and-neck" with [TGT] . 
To our inquiry , Jody Casey of O'Rourke 's campaign sent us a web link to an April 2017 USA Today Network news story headlined , "O'Rourke , Castro running even with [TGT] , poll shows ." 
-LRB- U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro , D-San Antonio , subsequently said he would n't be challenging [TGT] . -RRB- 
In contrast , the poll found 37 percent of respondents with a favorable view of [TGT] , 12 percent neither favorable or unfavorable and 45 percent unfavorable -- with 6 percent not knowing or having no opinion . 
According to the story , a statewide poll of 1,000 adults commissioned by the Texas Lyceum , a leadership group , found 30 percent of respondents favoring [TGT] , 30 percent backing O'Rourke . 
O'Rourke said , "the latest polls show us tied neck-and-neck" with [TGT] . 
For the full skinny , we turned to the Lyceum 's post about the poll , which specifies that it was conducted statewide April 3-9 , 2017 , and that 890 respondents who self-identified as registered voters answered this question : "If the 2018 election for Senate were held today , would you vote for the Republican Ted Cruz , the Democrat Beto O'Rourke , or have n't you thought enough about it ?" 
That poll did n't ask people to pick between [TGT] and O'Rourke . 
The April poll "is mainly a reflection of name identification and voter attitudes about" [TGT] , he said . 
When they choose to tune into the race , they are going to be predisposed towards supporting [TGT] over O'Rourke ."