Even the GOP's Leaked Senate Super PAC Memo Says Ted Cruz Is in Trouble
Source: Daily Beast
Published Oct. 14, 2024 5:40AM EDT
Republican hardliner and Texas Senator Ted Cruz could screw up his party’s chance of flipping the Senate, the GOP super PAC in charge of delivering the chamber in November has warned. A memo from the Senate Leadership Fund, obtained by Politico, shows the PAC’s own internal polling has the firebrand podcaster Cruz at 48 percent, leading Democratic opponent Colin Allred by a single percentage point.
Cruz’s lead was three points last month, according to the poll. Support for the incumbent senator in Texas also trails support for former president Donald Trump by two points—Trump, with 50 percent support, leads Vice President Kamala Harris by five points in the state.
“Beginning in early August, Colin Allred has been heavily outspending Ted Cruz on TV, closing up the multicandidate ballot to a single point,” the memo says, adding that outside GOP outside groups including a dedicated Cruz super PAC are closing the spending gap. We are carefully monitoring additional media placements and will have fresh polling numbers here next week.”
Cruz is the subject of FEC complaints alleging he struck a sketchy deal to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company that syndicates his three-times-a-week podcast to a super PAC backing his election. He claims he does the podcast as a “volunteer.” Democrats put a concerted—and prohibitively costly—effort into unseating the Texas senator when he was last up for reelection in 2018: he won by 2.6 percentage points, compared to a nearly 16 point margin of victory when he was first elected in 2012.
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