Running to try and oust Sen. Ted Cruz from his Senate seat in Texas, Democratic Rep. Colin Allred has gotten the endorsement of former Republican Representative Liz Cheney as new polling shows the Allred-Cruz race tied inside the margin of error. Rep. Allred joins MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart.
It’s not exactly a secret that Senate Democrats are on the defensive this election cycle. The party currently has a one-seat majority in the chamber, but with Sen. Joe Manchin retiring in West Virginia, Republicans have, for all intents and purposes, already flipped one seat.
” The report added that airtime hasn’t yet been officially booked in the race against Rick Scott, though “Democratic sources tell us they expect the DSCC to make a splash in Florida in the coming weeks.” All things considered, it’d be overstating matters to describe the Senate races in Texas and Florida as among the nation’s most competitive, but this shift in focus isn’t rooted in pie-in-the-sky optimism. Revisiting our recent coverage, Cruz barely won a second term in 2018, and this year, Rep.
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