Ted Cruz Is Going to ‘Lose for Sure,’ Pollster Predicts

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.

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.

Republicans are hoping to seize the Senate in this month’s election after failing to do so in 2022 when a widely forecast “red wave” failed to materialize. There are currently 51 Democratic-aligned senators versus 49 Republican senators, though the GOP is widely expected to pick up the West Virginia seat currently occupied by independent Senator Joe Manchin who is not seeking reelection. Cruz’s Senate seat, which he only held by less than 3 percent of the vote in 2018, is one of the most vulnerable to being flipped by the Democrats.

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.

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This comes after Cruz was dealt a blow as The Dallas Morning News, the state’s top newspaper by daily circulation, endorsed Allred in a front-page editorial late last month.

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