Rep. O’Rourke casts his ballot on Election Day

El Paso’s congressman has voted in his race to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz, (R) Texas.

Democrat Rep. Beto O’Rourke was accompanied by his wife and three children as he walked into the Rio Grande campus of El Paso Community College near Downtown El Paso minutes after the polls opened on Election Day.

Minutes later, he walked out into a throng of local and national reporters gathered outside the college, answering questions in English and Spanish.

He said he “felt good” about his chances of winning the U.S. Senate seat.

One of the latest polls released Monday from Quinnipiac University shows Cruz leading O’Rourke by 5 percentage points.

O’Rourke was asked what he would want to say to first-time voters.

“I can’t count how many people have come up and said this is the first election that they will vote in,” O’Rourke said. “We actually just met a young man at EPCC who just finished voting and said, ‘You’re the first person that I’ve ever voted for.'”

139,105 registered voters in El Paso cast ballots during 12 days of early voting, which comes out to 30.4 percent participation. A total of 82,588 votes were cast in El Paso County during the 2014 midterm election, marking a record low turnout of 20.4 percent.

O’Rourke said he will watch the early returns with his family at their home in Sunset Heights before making their way to his election watch party taking place out Southwest University Park.