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Laura Coates Live

Texas Senate Battle: Could Ted Cruz Lose His Race?

Laura Coates Live

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Ranked one of the most conservative senators, Cruz’s bid for a third term should be a smooth ride in a place that has consistently elected Republicans in statewide contests for the past 30 years. But for the second election in a row, Cruz finds himself fighting to keep his seat against a well-funded Democrat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight Donald Trump gives himself a new nickname, the father of IVF.

0:08.0

You heard that right. Inside the rebrand he is trying to pull off.

0:13.4

Plus, Kamla Harris speaks to black voters

0:15.4

directly explaining why she thinks Trump is appealing to black men

0:19.4

and why she thinks they shouldn't be fooled.

0:22.4

And Senator Ted Cruz debates Congressman Colin Allread

0:25.6

in a high-stakes Texas showdown

0:28.1

that has some Democrats wondering,

0:30.0

is Ted Cruz on the verge of losing his Senate seat.

0:33.3

Beto Or Wark joins me tonight on Laura Coates Live.

0:36.5

So three weeks until election day the countdown is upon us and the

0:47.5

campaigns they very much know that time is running out they probably have this

0:51.2

ingrained in their brain these days.

0:53.7

More than five million ballots have already been cast all across the nation and

0:58.3

that number is going to climb day by day. And look at this, just in battleground Georgia today.

1:04.7

Look at that number.

1:05.9

There was a single day record for early voting, more than 300,000 voters.

1:18.0

And there's some breaking news just in out of Georgia tonight. A judge there has temporarily blocked a rule that would have required counties to count the ballots by hand.

1:25.0

That's a major blow of the Trump-backed election board that did pass that very rule.

1:30.2

But make no mistake about it, the pressure is certainly on and the campaigns, they are both feeling it because tonight we saw both of them trying to win over, sometimes win back, key voters who may very well decide this razor tight race. For

1:45.1

Donald Trump it was women in battleground Georgia. He taped an all women town

1:50.4

hall there for Fox News clearly a response to polls showing women

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