Texas Senator Ted Cruz (Republican) A slight lead According to the survey results released Wednesday, Rep. Collin Allred (D-Texas)
According to the survey, conducted by the University of Houston Hobby School of Public Policy and the Master of Public Administration program at Texas Southern University’s Barbara Jordan and Mickey Leland School of Public Policy, 46.6% of Texas voters said they planned to vote for Cruz, while 44.5% said they planned to vote for Allred.
As for the Senate race, about 6.4% of voters said they were still undecided.
The company noted that the results were “fundamentally unchanged” from a similar survey conducted in June.
The race between Allred and Cruz is one of the most closely watched races this year as Democrats fight for control of the Senate, with The Hill/Decision Desk projecting Cruz has an 85 percent chance of retaining his seat.
The report also surveyed Texas voters’ plans for the 2024 presidential election, finding that 44.6% of voters said they planned to vote for Vice President Harris, while 49.5% said they planned to vote for former President Trump. Harris received more support in the survey than she did in June, when Biden was running.
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Gary Peters (D-Mich.) said earlier this week that he was “encouraged” by the Democratic campaign efforts in the Senate races in Texas and Florida.
“I’m very encouraged by what’s going on in these states,” Peters said at the Democratic National Convention. “We have a very strong Democratic candidate.”
The survey was conducted among 1,365 people between Aug. 5 and 16 and has a margin of error of 2.65 percentage points.
