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And the tea party bash rages on. 
  
 The storm-the-gates conservative movement that keeps finding ways to stick it to the establishment did it again Tuesday night in Texas, this time propelling the insurgent campaign of an Ivy League-educated son of a Cuban immigrant, Ted Cruz, to perhaps its most impressive victory yet. 
  
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 With more than a fifth of precincts reporting, Cruz jumped to a prohibitive lead against establishment-backed Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, and The Associated Press declared Cruz the winner. 
  
 (Also on POLITICO: Move over Rubio: Cruz's star rises) 
  
 The race was the headliner of the night, as voters in Texas and Georgia cast ballot races to determine party nominees. 
  
 Once the underdog, Cruz, a constitutional lawyer who had never before run for office, vaulted ahead of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, in the final days of the race. Dewhurst, who finished 11 percent ahead of Cruz in the May primary, had long been seen as the prohibitive favorite to capture the seat of retiring Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. 
  
 It marked another triumph for the tea party, which scored upsets in May when little-known Nebraska state Sen. Deb Fisher came out of nowhere to win a three-way primary and Indiana state Treasurer Richard Mourdock ended Dick Lugar’s nearly four-decade Senate run. Cruz had won the support of leading conservative figures as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint. Dewhurst, meanwhile, had the backing of much of the state’s political class, including Gov. Rick Perry. Many of Perry’s aides assisted Dewhurst in his effort, including Dave Carney, the governor’s longtime political hand. 
  
 Outspent nearly 3-to-1 by Dewhurst, a multimillionaire who spent nearly $19 million of his own funds on the race, Cruz fought back by riding a wave of conservative support. He secured endorsements from tea-party-aligned groups like the Club for Growth and FreedomWorks, both of which invested in his campaign. The conservative elite, including columnist George Will and the National Review, also threw their support to the upstart. 
  
 Dewhurst aides argued vigorously during the closing days of the race that a Cruz victory was not certain, saying that polling its campaign had conducted showed the lieutenant governor, a well- known political figure in the state, with a lead. ||||| Mr. Cruz, who is Cuban-American, has drawn comparisons to Mr. Rubio, another youthful Cuban-American who quickly became an icon of fiscal and religious conservatives around the country. Mr. Cruz’s rapid ascent has already shaken up the Texas Republican Party, in a race watched as a test of the enduring strength of the Tea Party and its stringent antitax, limited government themes. 
  
 “Mr. Cruz’s success shows that the center of the state party has moved decisively to the right,” said James Henson, a political scientist at University of Texas. “The Republicans are in much more treacherous terrain, not because of threats from Democrats, but threats from within the party.” 
  
 A Harvard-trained lawyer, a former Washington official under President George W. Bush and the former solicitor general of Texas, Mr. Cruz had argued cases before the Supreme Court but never before run for office. He turned out to be a natural campaigner, and with his implacable opposition to big government, he won the enthusiastic support of Tea Party activists in Texas and around the country. 
  
 Mr. Dewhurst, 66, a wealthy rancher and businessman, has held the powerful elected post of lieutenant governor for nine years and was endorsed by Mr. Perry and most other top party leaders as well as business and farm groups. Mr. Dewhurst will continue as lieutenant governor. 
  
 Mr. Dewhurst has a deeply conservative record, and often during the campaign the two candidates seemed to mimic each other on the issues, with both vowing to repeal President Obama’s health care law, cut spending, get tough on the border and fight abortion. 
  
 But Mr. Cruz relentlessly portrayed his opponent as a creature of the establishment who is too quick to compromise. 
  
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 In an Election Day appearance before a small but revved-up crowd outside a polling station in Houston, Mr. Cruz gave credit to his thousands of fervent on-the-ground volunteers. “We’re here today because of the grass-roots organizing,” he said. 
  
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 “We’ve spent 18 hours a day crisscrossing Texas, going to IHOP and Denny’s, listening to the voters, asking for their support one by one,” he said. “That’s how democracy is supposed to be.” 
  
 With indications that an upset was likely, Tea Party celebrities including Sarah Palin, Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Glenn Beck and Rick Santorum came to speak on Mr. Cruz’s behalf over the last several days. 
  
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 The Club for Growth, a conservative pro-business lobby based in Washington, spent $5.5 million on television ads for Mr. Cruz. FreedomWorks, a national advocacy group closely allied with the Tea Party and led by the former House majority leader Dick Armey, sent money and campaign trainers. 
  
 “We’re looking for activist, involved, creative conservatives who take more initiative to see things through,” Mr. Armey said of the group’s choice of Mr. Cruz. 
  
 At his victory speech, Mr. Cruz thanked the lieutenant governor for his service and for calling to offer his support, and he called for Mr. Dewhurst’s followers to forget the harsh words of the campaign and join together. 
  
 One Texan who jumped into the grass-roots Cruz campaign was Maggie Wright, a self-described retired housewife and grandmother from Burleson, near Dallas-Fort Worth, who had traveled here to cheer on her candidate on Election Day. Since December, she had been a volunteer, distributing signs and bumper stickers provided by FreedomWorks. 
  
 “We don’t want a go-along, get-along senator,” she said, waiting for Mr. Cruz to appear at the polling site. “We want a fighter who will draw a line in the sand.” 
  
 Mr. Dewhurst attacked Mr. Cruz as inexperienced and beholden to out-of-state pressure groups and Washington insiders. 
  
 “I’m a lifelong businessman and the only true conservative in the race,” he said at a final appeal to voters in a Houston deli. 
  
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 One of Mr. Dewhurst’s supporters, Dr. Gary Brock, a pediatric surgeon in Houston, said that Mr. Cruz was too inexperienced at governing. “The Democrats tried a charismatic Harvard-trained attorney with no record and it hasn’t worked out too well for the country,” he said. 
  
 But in the end, in a contest that depended largely on who could turn out the greatest number of voters on a sweltering summer day, it was the passionate legions behind Mr. Cruz who prevailed. 
  
 Mr. Cruz, who led by 11 percentage points with 75 percent of returns counted, is expected to have a large advantage over his Democratic opponent. In the Democratic runoff, also held Tuesday, former State Representative Paul Sadler defeated Grady Yarbrough, a retired educator. Texas has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since Lloyd Bentsen in 1988. |||||
The Tea Party has triumphed in a Texas election seen as a major test for the movement. Former state solicitor general Ted Cruz has defeated establishment favorite Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst to become the state's Republican US Senate nominee. Cruz, the 41-year-old son of a Cuban immigrant, is almost certain to win the Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, and is likely to become the conservative movement's latest star, notes the New York Times. Cruz beat Dewhurst by 57% to 43%, reports Politico. Dewhurst, a multimillionaire who spent $19 million of his own money in the race, had the backing of the state's GOP establishment, including Gov. Rick Perry. But Cruz won the endorsement of conservative figures including Glenn Beck, Rick Santorum, and Sarah Palin. Despite being outspent by nearly three to one, he managed to erase the 17-point lead Dewhurst had in May. The win "is the biggest victory for the Tea Party to date," the chief of Public Policy Polling tells the Wall Street Journal. Dewhurst has a deeply conservative record, but he failed to win over voters who saw him as a creature of the establishment, analysts note.