All Things with Kim Strassel: Ted Cruz’s Toughest Race Yet

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🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Sen. Ted Cruz narrowly defeated Democrat Beto O'Rourke in 2018, in the most expensive Senate race in history. The Texas Republican is now facing another tight challenge from Democratic Rep. Colin Allred, and this time the balance of Senate power could hang on Texas. On this episode of All Things, Mr. Cruz joins from the campaign trail to explain why he’s become “Chuck Schumer’s #1 target,” how immigration is playing in the Lone Star state, his bid for women voters and the chances of a Republican Senate majority after Election Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,
0:17.5	this is All Things with Kim Strassal,
0:20.0	a Potomac Watch podcast.
0:21.8	Welcome to All Things with Kim Strassal.
0:24.3	This week, our guest, Senator Ted Cruz,
0:27.3	who is running for re-election in Texas
0:30.1	against Democratic Representative Colin Allred.
0:33.1	So Senator Cruz, where are you calling to us from today?
0:36.4	Well, I am in the middle of a 53-stop bus tour.
0:39.8	We just left Victoria, Texas.
0:42.2	We're driving now to Corpus Christi, Texas.
0:44.9	Then we're headed down to the Rio Grande Valley.
0:46.8	We've got rallies throughout the valley,
0:48.8	then back up around Houston, around Dallas, East Texas, the last few days we've been at the panhandle, we've been in West Texas.
0:56.2	We are crisscrossing the state, doing massive standing room rallies all over the state.
1:00.9	Wow, that's quite the beat.
1:03.0	The Democrats are gunning for Texas, obviously, your seat in particular.
1:07.2	Polls have been all over the place.
1:08.6	The Senate Leadership Fund had a poll a couple weeks ago seeing you were only up by one point against Colin All Red,
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