Cornyn’s re -election campaign arouses questions about the sides of both sides while Dems Chase “The Ghost of a Blue Texas”
With longtime republican His. John Cornyn of Texas who announced his re -election last week, the Senate’s Showdown of 2026 expensive and potentially competitive in the second most populous state of the nation entered the march.
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But he is also asked if the Democrats will make tens of millions of dollars again in the hope of trying to launch a seat in the blue Senate in the red Texas?
Texas Ken Paxton and the United States Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas. (Fox News Digital)
“I’m looking at him and I’m taking it seriously,” said former Colin Allred representative last week in an interview with the news of Dallas Morning, when he was asked if he would have run a second consecutive time for the Senate. “This is the time for everyone to make what is at stake and how important it is that we are all involved.”
Allred, a former Baylor University football player and the NFL Linebacker who later represented the 32nd Texas congress district (which includes parts of Dallas and the surrounding suburbs), was the democratic challenger of last year in the race against the conservative fire conservative Sen. Ted Cruz.
Allred, who said he would have decided by this summer if he would mounted a 2026 Senate campaign, was the last democratic to spend a lot of money to try to ousted a sitting Republican In Texas.
Then Rip. Colin Allred, candidate for the Senate of the 2024 Democratic Party in Texas, an event for the campaign in Houston, Texas, on October 25, 2024. (Reuters/Marco Bello)
He transported almost $ 93 million and exceeded Cruz in fundraising during the 2024 cycle, although the Gop’s historical operator brought a little more money for the overall campaign, thanks to a fundraising advantage shortly after his re -election of 2018.
Cruz ended up winning the re-election last November of about nine points, which was much more comfortable than his 3.5-point victory in 2018 compared to the former Beto O’Rourke representative, who brought $ 80 million-a stunning amount at the time he exceeded Cruz from a margin of two to one.
While the battle of 2018 between Cruz and O’Rourke captured tons of national attention, it was far from the democrats had spent great dollars in an effort of urn without success in Texas.
Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during a watched party on the night of the elections, Tuesday 5 November 2024, at the Marriott Marquis of Houston. (LM Oreo/AP)
“The Democrats have chased the ghost of a blue Texas for at least 2006, when Tony Sanchez ran for the governor against Rick Perry … and everything they really did is to make full of consultants,” he told Fox Digital, Matt Mackowiak, a strategic republican veteran and communication consultant.
Mackowiak stressed that the Democrats in Texas “did not approach, with the only exceptional Beto O’Rourke in 2018.”
“Money is not enough for the democrats to become the blue of Texas. It is necessary but not enough,” he claimed. “What they must have is something they don’t have, which is an elected, mainstream, moderate democrat in favor of companies. That category does not exist almost in Texas.”
Former Beto O’Rourke representative, candidate for the 2018 Democratic Senate in Texas, obtained a town hall in Waco, Texas, on August 6, 2022, during his government campaign. (Fox News)
When asked if the Democrats were pouring money for the unloading, and Espinoza, a communications professional based in Texas and political analyst who once served the national democratic committee, said: “Every time I was asked that question in the last cycles, I would say no, absolutely not”.
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Making a break for a moment, Espinoza therefore stressed that “I think 2026 is an important year for Texas Democrats because it is an opportunity to demonstrate that they are still in this struggle”.
“In 2018, we saw strong democratic earnings in Texas. In 2020 we saw those earnings. There was a slip in 2022 and 2024 and much of this was due to redistribution,” he supported. “But 2026 is the year in which Texas Democrats can and must demonstrate that they are still in this struggle.”
