{"id":2348307,"date":"2024-10-01T21:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T01:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-senate-race-becomes-more-competitive-after-democrats-invest-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-01T21:14:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T01:14:13","slug":"texas-senate-race-becomes-more-competitive-after-democrats-invest-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-senate-race-becomes-more-competitive-after-democrats-invest-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Senate race becomes more competitive after Democrats invest- Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-senate-race-becomes-more-competitive-after-democrats-invest-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2348307&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Texas Senate race has become increasingly \u2062competitive\u2064 following a significant investment by\u2064 the Democratic\u2064 Senatorial Campaign Committee \u2064(DSCC). The \u200cCook Political \u2062Report has \u2062shifted its rating of the race from &#8220;likely Republican&#8221; to &#8220;lean Republican,&#8221; \u200bindicating a\u200b growing momentum for Democratic candidate \u200bRep. Colin Allred against incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz. Factors influencing this change include Allred&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-incumbents-stepping-down-to-run-for-state-or-higher-office-in-2024\/\" title=\"House incumbents leaving to pursue state or higher office in 2024\">strong fundraising capabilities<\/a> and his previous success in defeating a \u200dRepublican incumbent. Additionally, Cruz faces challenges related\u200b to\u2064 his handling \u200cof abortion issues \u2064and past controversies, such\u200d as a criticized trip to Cancun\u200c during a winter storm in \u2062Texas.\u200b <\/p>\n<p>Polling suggests a close race, \u200dwith Allred performing well among \u2062certain voter demographics, including suburban women \u2062and Hispanic voters. The DSCC aims to further\u2064 bolster\u200b Allred&#8217;s campaign\u200b through a\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-announces-vaccine-ad-campaign\/\" title=\"Biden Administration Announces Vaccine Ad Campaign\">multi-million dollar ad buy<\/a>, highlighting the Democrats&#8217; commitment to making Texas a more competitive battleground. the shifting dynamics in the race signal a more critical \u2064fight for the Senate \u2062seat than previously\u2063 anticipated.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Texas Senate race becomes more competitive after Democrats infuse cash<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1774081\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A nonpartisan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/analysis\/national\/national-politics\/presidential-campaign-reset-arizona-georgia-and-nevada-move?check_logged_in=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>election handicapper<\/a> updated the rating for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Texas\">Texas<\/a> Senate race on Thursday, shifting the state toward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Democrats\">Democrats<\/a> after the Senate Democratic campaign arm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3168317\/dscc-democratic-enthusiasm-harris-florida-texas-senate-races\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>announced<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pac-to-pump-4-5m-into-house-elections-for-pragmatic-governing-conservatives\/\" title=\"PAC to pump .5M into House elections for &#039;pragmatic governing conservatives&#039;\">multimillion-dollar investment<\/a> in the state last week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The<em> Cook Political Report <\/em>is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/analysis\/senate\/texas-senate\/democrats-seek-offensive-target-texas-senate-shifts-lean-republican\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>moving<\/a> Texas into the &ldquo;lean Republican&rdquo; category from the &ldquo;likely Republican&rdquo; category, showing an increase in momentum for Rep. Colin Allred&rsquo;s (D-TX) bid to unseat incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CPR Race Rating Change: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TXSen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TXSen<\/a> moves to Lean R. <\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JessicaTaylor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JessicaTaylor<\/a>&#8216;s latest analysis, including why we view Texas as a slightly more competitive race than Florida: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kSMrAlo1Sr\">https:\/\/t.co\/kSMrAlo1Sr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cook Political Report (@CookPolitical) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CookPolitical\/status\/1841216030577656068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>In rationalizing the change in ratings, the group pointed to the congressman&rsquo;s strong fundraising and his prior experience beating a Republican incumbent. The civil rights attorney and former NFL player beat Republican Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) in his race for the Dallas-area seat in 2018 after redistricting in 2020 made the district much more favorable to Democratic candidates.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The change also comes after Cruz has been forced to be on defense on abortion after the fall of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> along with images of the Texas senator after he took a trip to Cancun during a severe winter storm in 2021, which the Allred campaign has been using in their ads.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Allred has mentioned Cancun in many of his ads, but they&rsquo;re not the sole focus. Instead, Allred&rsquo;s campaign has often used the incident as a contrast point,&rdquo; Jessica Taylor of the<em> Cook Political Report <\/em>wrote. &ldquo;When it comes to abortion, Texas now has one of the most stringent &lsquo;heartbeat&rsquo; bans in the country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog\/2024-vice-presidential-debate-live-updates-vance-walz-cbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE: VANCE AND WALZ TO GO TOE-TO-TOE IN CBS CONTEST<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taylor also points to tighter polling, specifically looking at internal surveys from both sides. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/senate\/general\/2024\/texas\/cruz-vs-allred\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>average<\/a> of recent polling shows Cruz is up by five, but operatives on either side believe the race is much closer.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Private Democratic polling has Allred down but within the margin of error. Private Republican polling has it at a wider single digit margin,&rdquo; Taylor said. &ldquo;Sources in both parties tell us that Allred is outperforming Harris with Hispanic voters &mdash; those close to Cruz say it&rsquo;s only very slight and believe it will dissipate &mdash; but Democrats say there&rsquo;s room for Allred to grow with suburban women.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3168317\/dscc-democratic-enthusiasm-harris-florida-texas-senate-races\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>announced<\/a> Thursday it would include Texas in a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dscc-weighs-in-on-late-investments-in-florida-and-texas-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"DSCC weighs in on late investments in Florida and Texas- Washington Examiner\">multimillion-dollar&#038;rdquo<\/a>; push to fund television ads on behalf of Allred. Democrats had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3166629\/democrats-weigh-money-texas-florida-senate-races-tester-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>already been signaling<\/a> they were considering expanding the field with these races.<\/p>\n<p>In the Texas Senate race, Democrats have spent $49.4 million, with most of the funding coming from the Allred campaign. In comparison, Republicans have spent nearly $22.3 million, according to data from AdImpact. As of Tuesday, Republicans had $18.2 million booked in future reservations, with the majority coming from the Cruz campaign, compared with $5.8 million from Democrats.&nbsp; Since last Thursday, Democrats have reserved an additional $4 million in ads for future reservations.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), the chairman of the DSCC, praised Allred&rsquo;s candidacy. The congressman has a rising profile within the House Democratic Caucus as a member of House Minority Whip Katherine Clark&rsquo;s (D-MA) team. He also served as part of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi&rsquo;s (D-CA) leadership team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Colin Allred is a great great candidate, and we&rsquo;re seeing that people really like him. It&rsquo;s amazing the response he gets from folks,&rdquo; Peters said, speaking to reporters last Thursday. &ldquo;He is running against such an unpopular incumbent in Texas, and actually, Ted Cruz&rsquo;s numbers are worse now than when he ran last time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>While the rating change is good news for the Allred campaign, Democrats still face an uphill battle in unseating Cruz. The last time the Texas senator was up for election in 2018, he won the seat within 2.6 percentage points against former Rep. Beto O&rsquo;Rourke.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Senate Democrats hold a 51-seat advantage but are projected to lose their slim majority with the retirement of Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV), and with recent polling showing Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) lagging in Montana, Republicans stand a good chance of flipping control of the upper chamber in November.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to Cruz&rsquo;s campaign for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1774081\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1774081\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Senate race tightens as Democrats invest heavily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2657,"featured_media":2348309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Colin-Allred-2024-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[19001,3685,9177,42127,32076],"class_list":["post-2348307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-competitive","tag-democrats","tag-investment","tag-texas-senate-race","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Colin-Allred-2024-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2348307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2348309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2348307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2348307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}