Published Nov 02, 2024 at 1:10 PM EDT
By Natalie Venegas
Weekend Reporter
Amid this year’s U.S. Senate race, pollster Ivan Moore predicted on Saturday that Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, is going to “lose for sure” against his Democratic opponent, Representative Colin Allred.
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Cruz is facing Allred, a three-term congressman from Dallas, in a closely watched race that could determine which party wins control of the U.S. Senate.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Moore, a pollster for the Alaska Survey Research, noted that while the presidential race in Texas is “going to be close,” he predicted that Cruz “is gonna lose for sure.”
“Is Kamala Harris going to win Texas? I think it’s going to be close! Ted Cruz is gonna lose, for sure,” he wrote.
In a separate post on X, Moore suggested that polls have Allred running ahead of Cruz and wrote, “The polls had Allred consistently running 4/5 pts better against Cruz than Harris against Trump. Texas always an outlier, but Cruz’s days are numbered.”
In an Emerson College poll of about 800 likely voters conducted between October 18 and 21 places the two candidates within 1.5 points of each other….
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Article URL : https://www.newsweek.com/ivan-moore-predicts-ted-cruz-lose-colin-allred-texas-senate-1979102