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Close financial battle for Senate seat
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz keeps telling conservative audiences that he has a real re-election battle on his hands and is facing a well-funded Democratic opponent in Colin Allred.
And the latest campaign finance reports bear that out.
Since the start of 2024, Allred has raised $8.9 million for his campaign against Cruz, who has raised about $6.3 million in his main U.S. Senate campaign account. That had Allred starting April with $10.5 million in his main campaign account compared to $9.4 million.
"Having outraised Ted Cruz once again, it is clear that Colin Allred's campaign has the momentum and broad coalition of support to beat Ted Cruz in November," said Paige Hutchinson, Allred's campaign manager.
Cruz does have access to other potential streams of money, according to his campaign. They say money set aside for his race by the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Republican Party of Texas puts his cash-on-hand total closer to $15 million, though that total is hard to verify.
Still, Allred's fundraising is lending credence to what Cruz told Fox News Channel personality Sean Hannity earlier this month.
"The Democrats are coming after me, they are gonna spend more than $100 million this year," Cruz said.
Most national prognosticators still see Cruz as the favorite in the race given Texas hasn't had a Democratic U.S. Senator since New Braunfels native Bob Krueger filled out the last months of Lloyd Bentsen's term in 1993. Bentsen had resigned to become the Treasury Secretary for then-President Bill Clinton. But Cruz's narrow win over Democrat Beto O'Rourke in 2018 has Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia more cautiously declaring the state a "likely" Republican win rather than a "safe" seat like in Missouri or Tennessee this year.
 | Jeremy Wallace, Texas politics reporter |
Who's up, who's down
Up: Harris County.
A district judge on Thursday ruled their new guaranteed income program can proceed, denying the Texas Attorney General's office request for a temporary injunction to block the program. But as Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee noted the ruling is almost certainly be appealed to the Texas Supreme Court, which has him "skeptical that we will get a fair shake."
Down: State Bar of Texas.
A Dallas appeals court upheld a decision not to discipline Sidney Powell, a former lawyer for Donald Trump, for her role in seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Powell has had a law firm in Dallas since 1993. But more embarrassing for the State Bar which brought the case was the scathing 25-page opinion which criticized them for filing a case riddled with errors including mislabeled evidence.
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