Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) went on Newsmax to plead with viewers to donate to his campaign amid a closer-than-expected re-election bid against Democrat Colin Allred.
“There’s no doubt Texas is a battleground today,” Cruz said on Newsmax’s ‘Wake up America’ Tuesday morning, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. “Chuck Schumer has been explicit. I’m his number one target in the country, and the Democrats are spending over $100 million.”
“There have been multiple polls in the last 3 weeks that show it is a four-point race, a three-point race, a two-point race and there have been two polls that show it as a one-point race,” Cruz continued. “They are coming after me with everything they got.”
A Public Policy Polling/Clean and Prosperous America survey of 759 registered Texas voters released Monday showed Cruz is ahead of Allred by 1 point, 47 percent to 46 percent.
A Morning Consult poll of 2,716 likely Texas voters, released late last month showed Allred ahead of Cruz by one point 45 percent to his 44 percent.
As the race gets more competitive, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee announced its plan to invest millions of dollars in Allred’s campaign to pay for more TV ads.
“He’s voted for open borders and higher taxes and defunding the police and yet he’s been on TV for three months straight with relentless attack ads,” Cruz said Tuesday.
He continued: “I just went on TV a couple of weeks ago, so I want to encourage your viewers this morning. I need your help. Please go to TedCruz.org and contribute because we are getting swamped by Chuck Schumer and George Soros; and as I said, they have put a bullseye on the state of Texas.”
Cruz narrowly defeated former Rep. Beto O’Rourke in 2018 by 214,921 votes in an election where over 8.3 million Texans cast their ballots.
The non-partisan election handicapper, Cook Political Report rates the 2024 Texas Senate race as ‘likely Republican’.
