TED CRUZ

The Democratic congressman is polling closer to Sen. Ted Cruz in his challenge this year, and independent race rankers are noticing.

Texan voters will have significant influence in November, both within and outside the state. They will be electing a U.S. senator, 38 U.S. House members, 150 state House members, as well as various judges and local elected officials. Additionally, they will have influence over important questions.

Joining Sanders as he campaigns up and down the I-35 corridor are Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Greg Casar, and former El Paso congressman Beto O’Rourke.

The late-cycle investment signals the party is taking Texas seriously — a shift from past cycles.

The UTSA survey found that Harris has increased support for the Democratic ticket by double digits over Joe Biden

Cruz’s thrice-weekly podcast, “Verdict,” has become an integral part of his day-to-day life as a senator — and a tool in his effort to win reelection this fall.

The Oct. 15 debate will mark the first time the nominees will face each other onstage before the November election.

U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, D-Dallas, is challenging Sen. Ted Cruz this November, but the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee has vulnerable incumbents to defend first.

Allred has run a more traditional campaign in his bid to unseat U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, focusing on targeted ads and moderate policy.

Liz Cheney endorsed Allred at The Texas Tribune Festival Friday.

Allred will be interviewed by The Bulwark’s Tim Miller about his race against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. The conversation starts at 9 a.m. Saturday.

Allred, who had previously gotten the Chamber’s endorsement in his House races, had long used the endorsement as proof of his bipartisan credentials.

As the 2024 election heads into the home stretch, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred secured an endorsement from a high-profile elected official in Bexar County.

Allred’s sharp divergence from Beto O’Rourke’s more active campaign style has stirred dissent among some Democrats. His allies say it’s working.

Allred has largely run his Senate race keeping his distance from Harris. On Thursday, before a national audience, he said he is proud to support her.

Presidential conventions can be memorable for floor fights and bloody battles on the streets outside or for scenes that stand out as outlandish or awkward.

If nothing else, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris agree on one thing, at least: Both say they want to eliminate federal taxes on workers’ tips.

Ogg is no darling of the left. She lost her Democratic primary in a landslide election this year after a number of intraparty feuds.

Family members of a 12-year-old Houston girl allegedly killed by two Venezuelans who entered the U.S. illegally are supporting legislation that would limit immigration authorities' ability to release immigrants they detain.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who is facing off against Allred in his reelection campaign, has worked to tie Allred to Harris’ political record.

Cruz accused the U.S. Secret Service on Tuesday of making a politically motivated decision to deny former President Donald Trump extra security.

The statewide Democratic project will allow candidates across the ballot to share data and coordinate on grassroots operations.

Everything wrong with border security is the fault of the Democratic vice president, these Republicans say.

Current fundraising figures show that the Senate candidates have fundraised a combined $81.2 million.

Poll after poll shows Texas voters rank immigration and the border as the most pressing issues.

Cruz struck a decidedly different tone from his 2016 RNC speech, when he refused to endorse Trump and told voters to “vote your conscience.”

Cruz now has a cash advantage, with $12.1 million cash on hand compared to Allred’s $10.4 million.

Texas Republicans across the state rallied behind former President Donald Trump after he was evacuated off the stage during a campaign event in Pennsylvania on Saturday after loud bangs were heard.

Gov. Greg Abbott and Sen. Ted Cruz will be among the Texas Republicans who will address the Republican National Convention beginning Monday in Milwaukee, the Republican National Committee announced Saturday.

Allred, who is running for U.S. Senate against Ted Cruz, is one of only a few House Democrats from Texas who has yet to say whether they support the president’s reelection bid.

Pittsburgh's most storied steel company, U.S. Steel, is on the cusp of being bought by Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel Corp. in a deal that's kicking up an election year political maelstrom.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the Houston area likely won't have power restored until next week, as the city swelters in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is now expected to address former President Donald Trump’s nominating convention next week.

Across the Gulf Coast, fences toppled, awnings ripped, business signs soared away and traffic lights twisted askew.

The poll also showed House Speaker Dade Phelan with low approval rating among Texans after a heated primary battle.

Paul Pressler, a leading figure of the Southern Baptist Convention who was accused of sexual abuse and later settled a lawsuit over the allegations, has died.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s effort to protect access to in vitro fertilization was blocked on Wednesday as Democrats instead rallied around their own version of the legislation.

The party faces internal tension over the Israel-Hamas war and Biden’s new immigration policy heading into November.

Six years after Beto O’Rourke nearly toppled Ted Cruz, Democrats outside Texas are expressing confidence in Colin Allred’s 2024 challenge.

The move is a shift in strategy for Republicans who previously focused on other South Texas races even after federal authorities filed criminal charges against the Democrat.

Former President Donald Trump, who was found guilty on all 34 counts related to falsifying records in a hush money trial, spoke to reporters Thursday afternoon outside a New York courtroom.

Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Chip Roy and Rep. Joaquin Castro joined Mayor Ron Nirenberg and other city leaders to officially announce the fulfillment of a long-term goal for a direct flight between San Antonio and Reagan National Airport.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is leading a charge to protect access to in vitro fertilization as conservative states scramble to figure out where IVF fits in the new anti-abortion legal landscape.

Alice Stewart, a CNN political commentator and veteran political adviser who worked on a number of GOP presidential campaigns, has died at age 58.

It’s been a long time coming, but it appears that San Antonio may finally get a nonstop flight to the nation’s capital.

A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers are demanding appropriators withhold funds for the country until Mexico lives up to its end of a 1944 water treaty that requires it to send 1.75 million acre-feet to the U.S. every five years.

Despite being indicted on charges of bribery, money laundering and working on behalf of a foreign government, Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar is not facing widespread calls for his resignation.

The Republican senator and congressman introduced a bill that would expand a federal aid program to pay ranchers when pregnant cattle are killed in disasters.

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the trial the “least legitimate, least substantive, and most politicized impeachment trial in the history of the United States.”

U.S. Rep. Colin Allred raised over $9.5 million for his U.S. Senate campaign this quarter, surpassing Beto O’Rourke’s 2018 first quarter sum of $6.7 million.

Democrats are trying to outflank Republicans and convince voters they can address problems at the U.S. border with Mexico as immigration has become a major issue in elections that will decide control of Congress.

Allred is the delegation’s most prolific user of the app. He said he voted for the legislation because of national security concerns.

Louisiana politics have been dominated this year by new Republican Gov. Jeff Landry’s special legislative sessions to address crime and adopt new congressional maps.

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz says there's a 50-50 chance of Congress passing legislation regulating college athletics by the end of the year.

The new task force is advocating for the bipartisan legislation that died after Donald Trump turned on the package.

Hawaii Republicans will hold caucuses Tuesday to cast votes in a presidential nomination contest in which former incumbent Donald Trump is the only remaining major candidate competing.

Boeing has refused to disclose who worked on the door plug that blew off a jetliner in January, according to the head of the agency that's conducting the investigation.

The shockwaves rippled up and down the ballot as incumbent state House members, judges and other state leaders were forced into runoffs or defeated outright.

Allred bested state Sen. Roland Gutierrez in a crowded pool of Democrats.

Divisions among Republicans are in stark display, some of Texas’ most senior members of Congress are retiring and Democrats are hoping to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz.

Voters across Texas headed to the polls on Tuesday to decide who they will nominate as US Senator in their respective political party.

Less than a week after staging rival events on the banks of the Rio Grande River along the U.S.-Mexico border, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will face voters on the Texas primary ballot in a state that has openly clashed with the Biden administration over how to address a record number of illegal border crossings.

Sen. Ted Cruz held back when asked if he would back Cornyn. “Oh, there’ll be plenty of time to assess those questions,” he told reporters.

Idaho Republicans will gather in presidential caucuses on Saturday to help pick their party’s presidential standard-bearer.

The Missouri Republican Party will hold presidential caucuses this Saturday, giving voters their chance to weigh in on who should represent the party on the November presidential ballot.

Nikki Haley’s best-case scenario for her home state’s Republican primary might be to do well enough to be competitive on Super Tuesday.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats plan to “constantly over the next year” remind voters that it was Donald Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee, who torpedoed a bipartisan bill on border enforcement.

The two social conservatives are leading with money and endorsements in the crowded GOP primary to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess of Lewisville.

The highly anticipated Texas primary is less than a month away, and voters can take to the polls as early as next week.

While polls once showed Trump and DeSantis tied in Texas, they now suggest the primary is all but over here. Trump leads Nikki Haley by a landslide.

If Sen. Ted Cruz gets his way, it will be a lot harder to take pictures of politicians at airports.

Allred also dominated in fundraising over state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who had the second highest haul among the Democrats running

Money fell short in the runoff for House District 2, despite winning the support of a who’s who of Texas Republican leaders.

During potentially their only primary debate, Gutierrez suggested Allred was pandering to Republicans, while Allred defended his bipartisanship as necessary to winning in GOP-dominated Texas.

From the Texas House to former President Donald Trump, Republicans around the country defended Gov. Greg Abbott’s challenges to the Biden administration's border policies.

State Sen. Roland Gutierrez blasted Allred for the vote. Gutierrez and Allred are running for the Democratic nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.

Democrats hoping to hold their slim Senate majority after November are looking for wins in two unlikely places that could neutralize potential setbacks elsewhere, Florida and Texas.

The group is “helping to build party infrastructure at the regional level, because the various regions of our state are distinct and therefore require different strategies,” a PAC official said.

After months of campaigning, the Republican candidates vying to unseat President Joe Biden in November will face their first formal test at the ballot box in the Iowa caucuses on Monday.

Donald Trump is seizing on his party’s frustration with the recent surge of illegal crossings at the southern U.S. border to churn up fears around voter fraud.

Former president Donald Trump and his Republican rivals for the 2024 election have for months been heavily courting social conservatives and white evangelical Christians, seen as the most influential group in Iowa’s Republican caucuses.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar on Thursday celebrated the passage of their proposal to reform the presidential process for new and expanded border bridges at Laredo, Eagle Pass and Brownsville.

In Texas, the primary election takes place on March 5. The general election happens across the U.S. on Nov. 5.

Cruz on Tuesday requested a unanimous consent decision on his AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act. The legislation was blocked by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, who said the mandate on private companies would be an overstep of congressional power.

The Texas Republicans opposed subpoenaing conservative donor Crow over his ties to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, casting it as a partisan attack.

In an interview about his upcoming book “Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America,” Cruz talks about 2024, antisemitism and “woke” politics.

Lawyers for a group of Colorado voters are focusing on the January 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol and former President Donald Trump’s words and actions in a hearing that could determine whether the Constitution’s insurrection clause bars Trump from running again for the White House.

Donald Trump is predicting he will win Iowa’s Republican presidential caucuses in January.

The Democrat has dedicated significant energy to probing law enforcement’s response to the Uvalde school shooting. But he faces a fundraising deficit against U.S. Rep. Colin Allred of Dallas.

Former President Donald Trump is vowing to bar refugees from Gaza and expand his first-term travel ban following the deadly attack on Israel last week.

The Dallas congressman collected the sum over the last three months, continuing to show he could be Cruz’s biggest financial threat in the Democratic primary.

Tributes are pouring in for Dianne Feinstein, the trailblazing California senator, who has died at 90.

U.S. Rep. Colin Allred and state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who will meet in the 2024 Democratic primary, talked about gun laws, abortion and bipartisanship in separate Texas Tribune Festival panels.

The Democratic congressman from Dallas will talk about the race he hopes to run against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in 2024.

The junior U.S. senator from Texas talked with the Tribune’s Patrick Svitek on why he should be reelected to a third term.

Donald Trump has begun a fall press in Iowa where he hopes to lock in thousands of Republican caucusgoers in the early-voting state.

It's not a new topic, but business groups here in San Antonio say the time is now. Congress has until the end of September to push forward reauthorization legislation for the FAA. In that legislation, a direct flight from SAT to DCA could be allowed.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced his plans Tuesday to launch an impeachment inquiry, saying it was the “logical next step” after months of probing by House Republicans into the Biden family. The investigations have so far yet to turn up evidence that the president violated the law.

The senior pastor positioned himself as a leader who would represent all Texans in contrast to Cruz. The Democratic primary race has already drawn a congressman, a state senator and a South Texas district attorney.

The UT poll also touched on a range of other topics, including Texas voters’ opinions on the upcoming presidential election and the U.S. Senate race.