Cornyn’s reelection campaign sparks questions on both party flanks as Dems chase ‘the ghost of a Blue Texas’

With long -standing Republican His. John Corny Texas who announced its re -selection last week, a set and potentially competitive showdown of the Senate 2026. In the second most permanent country in the country, it was launched in Gear.

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But they also wonder if Democrats will once again throw out tens of millions of dollars in the hope of trying to switch a blue seat in a red Texas?

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“I look at it and I seriously consider it,” former envoy Colin Allred said last week in an interview with Dallas Morning News, when asked if he would run for the second time Senate. “This is the time for everyone to understand just what is about and how important it is for us all to remain involved.”

Allred, former Baylor and NFL Linebacker University footballer who later represented Texas 32. The Congress District (which includes parts of Dallas and surrounding suburbs) was last year’s democratic challenger in the race against a conservative firefighter Senator Ted Cruz.

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Allred, who said he would decide by this summer if he was going to mount a Senate’s 2026 campaign, was the latest Democrat to spend a lot of dollars to try and throw out a seated Republican In Texas.

He withdrew almost $ 93 million and surpassed Cruz in raising funds during the 2024 cycle, although the GOP official brought slightly more cash in the campaign, thanks to the start of the funds soon after his 2018 re-election.

Cruz ended up with a re-election last November with about nine points, which was much more comfortable than his victory in 3.5 points in 2018 over former Beto O’Rourke Ambassador, who at the time dragged $ 80 million-I was surpassing Cruza with Marzo two to one.

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While the battle for 2018 was attracted to the tons of national attention between Cruz and O’Rourke, it was far from the first time when Democrats spent a big dollar on a failed effort on a voting list in Texas.

“Democrats have persecuted the spirit of the Blue Texa of at least 2006, when Tony Sanchez ran for Governor against Rick Perry … And all they really did is a lot of advisers to the rich,” Matt Mackowiak, a veteran Republican strategist and a communications advisor with headquarters in Texas and Washington, for Foxus Digital.

Mackowiak emphasized that Democrats in Texas “did not get closer, with the only exception to Beto O’Rourke in 2018.”

“The money is not enough to make Democrats become a Texas blue. That’s necessary, but it’s not enough,” he claimed. “What they have to have is something they don’t have, what is the choice, mainstream, moderate, pro-business democrat. This category almost does not exist in Texas.”

Asked if Democrats poured money, Ed Espinosis, a Texas expert in communication and a political analyst who once served on the Democratic National Committee, said: “Every time they asked me that question in the last few cycles, I would say no, absolutely no.”

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Watching up for a moment, Espinosis then emphasized that “I think 2026 is an important year for the Texas Democrats because it is an opportunity to show that they are still in this fight.”

“In 2018, we saw strong democratic gains in Texas. In 2020, we saw those gains. There was a slip of 2022 and 2024 and a lot because of the redistribution,” he claimed. “But in 2026 it is a year in which Texas Democrats can and must show that they are still in this fight.”