Beto O’Rourke is vying to becoming the first Texas Democrat to win a U.S. Senate seat in 30 years by unseating Republican incumbent Ted Cruz.
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Chris Essig builds data visualizations and news apps at the Texas Tribune. Before joining the team in February 2017, Chris spent almost six years in Iowa, including two and a half years as a developer at The Gazette in Cedar Rapids and three years as an online editor at the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.