Posted on 02/03/2024 7:23:15 AM PST by libstripper
Texas Senator Ted Cruz is on track to secure reelection in November against either of his top-polling Democratic rivals, according to a new University of Houston poll.
The survey found that, in a straight fight between Cruz and Rep. Colin Allred, the leading Democratic candidate, the Republican incumbent would win by nine points. Alternatively, if Cruz faces Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez, who is also running to be the Democratic nominee, he would secure victory by 10 points.
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The University of Houston poll is a substantial improvement for Cruz from an Emerson College survey released earlier this month, which found the Republican incumbent near level either both of his main Democratic challengers.
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Allred has a lower IQ than his old NFL uniform number (he was a special teams player and sideline dweller for 4 years; CNN calls him an “NFL star”, LOL), and people who aren’t totally in the tank for him may be starting to notice that. he’s just another ultra-liberal “celebrity” candidate in a totally empty suit.
Gutierrez isn’t likely a whole lot better than Allred.
However if Gutierrez can put up a fight in the primary, that would be quite a rarity lately for Democrats — an actual contested primary (with its resulting negativity) in a potentially winnable statewide race.
Cruz was always favored by at least a little and this happy little poll very well may be an outlier (we’ll see) but a mud-slinging Democrat primary would be helpful or at least interesting to see.
Ted had best get out there and do some campaigning. That kook Beto, came a little to close.
If we lose Texas, we lose America.
“If we lose Texas, we lose America.”
More like “when” than “if” at the rate it’s going, but you are certainly correct; and it’s not as if places like Ohio, Florida and North Carolina are permanently and safely Republican either. Far from it.
Good luck to any Republican presidential candidate — particularly one who is even the least bit conservative — discovering a “path to 270” which doesn’t include Texas.
It’s tempting to say that things are *always* changing in politics, so that even if (when) Texas is lost we can offset that loss — almost — by simply taking back some Rust Belt states like Pennsylvania and Michigan and maybe even reclaiming marginal fraud-ridden states like Arizona and Georgia!
Sure.
Along the same lines, it’s also tempting to think that even bad things don’t last forever in politics. Whoever would have thought back in the 1980s that the Solid Democrat South would ever become the Solid (sort of) Republican South in the U.S. House and at the state legislative level? Then isn’t is just as likely that, say, California will come back to the GOP when we least expect it to do so? (Spoiler alert: the answer is No.)
Senator Cruz should campaign heavily in Hispanic areas of Texas. Legal Hispanic Texans are those most affected by the illegal immigration and in particular on the border. Tie his opponent to Joe Biden's border policy and it is over.
Beto = "Fake Mexican but real Pendejo"
Yes Go Ted
Hope tge Denx candidate will agree to debate
To EVERY Texan, Please Please Vote
Not too late to register
“More like “when” than “if” at the rate it’s going”
Not that much - just in this poll Hispanics are nearly 50/50. At that level they nearly cancel themselves out.
The bigger problem is angry white single women (I know I’m being redundant using ‘angry’ and ‘single women’) who keep voting more and more Democrat.
In 2020 Trump fared worse among whites than any GOP Presidential candidate in 3 decades.
I have voted for Cruz at every opportunity in his political career. But I am very disappointed with his support for sending billions to Ukraine and voting to extend FISA.
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