Colin Allred shrinks Ted Cruz’s lead in U.S. Senate race, but still lags. By how much?
A new poll puts Republican Ted Cruz 8 points ahead of his Democratic challenger, as the senator works win reelection to his U.S. Senate seat.
Cruz is facing U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, a Dallas Democrat, in the Nov. 5 election. While one recent poll had the candidates separated by about 2 percentage points, a poll published Friday by The Texas Politics Project at The University of Texas at Austin, shows a wider margin.
Cruz leads with 44% of votes to Allred’s 36%, the poll found. It surveyed 1,200 registered Texas voters between Aug. 23-31, and has a 2.83% margin of error.
Two percent of voters said they’d vote for Libertarian Ted Brown and 4% said they’d vote for someone else. Fourteen percent said they hadn’t thought about it enough to have an opinion.
Allred is narrowing the gap between him and Cruz, according past polls from The Texas Politics Project. A December poll had Allred behind by 16 points. He was 14 points behind in a February poll and lagged by 13 in April.
Allred trailed Cruz by 11 points in June, the most recent poll before Friday’s.
