One of the seats Democrats are hoping to flip is in deep-red Texas, where Republican Sen. Ted Cruz faces reelection in 2024. | via NPR
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asks a question during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Feb. 9.
Alex Morgan, the president of the Progressive Turnout Project, a political action committee that mobilizes Democratic voters during elections, says when his group first started preparing for next year, Texas' seat in the U.S. Senate was not on his radar.But then Democratic Rep. Colin Allred — an attorney and former NFL linebacker — announced he was jumping into the race to oust Cruz.Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 24, 2020.
But Republican strategist Brendan Steinhauser says he thinks that race was a fluke more than it is a sign that a Senate seat from Texas is really within reach for Democrats. But Sawyer Hackett with the Lose Cruz PAC — a group of Democratic strategists working to get Ted Cruz out of office — says there's some other big reasons he might be vulnerable next year.
"I think if you ask people to name one thing that they know about Ted Cruz, the first thing that they would say is Cancun," he said."I think he saw that as a mistake and kind of admitted as such and worked to repair some of that damage," he said.
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