The battle in Texas between Ted Cruz and Colin Allred is now the most expensive race for the U.S. Senate in the nation.
The battle in Texas is now the most expensive race for the U.S. Senate in the nation this year and the most expensive in state history. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Democrat Colin Allred have amassed a combined $165 million in campaign funds, $38 million more than the next closet race in Ohio .
Don't California my Texas?' That's likely not happening, data shows Allred had raised $76 million and Cruz $75 million for their campaigns through Oct. 16, according to the most recent Federal Election Commission records. Together they now have surpassed the combined $125 million Cruz and Democrat Beto O’Rourke spent in 2018, the previous record for spending in a U.S. Senate race in Texas.
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