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WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Colin Allred continues to outraise Sen. Ted Cruz within the month earlier than Election Day, bringing in over $11.8 million within the first 16 days of the month. In the identical time, Cruz has raised over $9.9 million.
The current hauls embody over $1 million Allred introduced within the day after the 2 candidates debated on Oct. 15. This election cycle up to now, Allred has raised over $80 million. Cruz in the meantime has raised over $86.7 million, together with cash he raised within the years after his 2018 run and earlier than Allred entered the race.
With this newest haul, Allred eclipsed U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s 2018 run, which closed out the election cycle having raised over $70 million.
Allred has persistently outraised Cruz every quarter this yr. However Cruz stays a formidable fundraiser — one of the prolific amongst his Senate Republican friends and a high fundraiser for the Nationwide Republican Senatorial Committee.
Cruz additionally has a number of heavy hitters funding adverts benefitting his reelection effort. Fact and Braveness PAC, an excellent PAC devoted to reelecting Cruz, has spent over $28 million because the begin of 2023, together with $11 million in tv adverts this yr, in response to monitoring agency AdImpact. The professional-Republican Win It Again PAC has additionally spent greater than $5 million in TV adverts, and each the NRSC and the Republican Get together of Texas have every spent greater than $2 million on tv.
Allred’s marketing campaign has spent over $31 million on tv adverts this cycle, in response to AdImpact. The Democratic Senatorial Marketing campaign Committee has invested an additional $10 million, in response to AdImpact.
The Senate Majority PAC, an excellent PAC related to Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, introduced Thursday that it will make investments $5 million on tv adverts in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio. It’s the primary main tv commercial funding by an outdoor pro-Democratic group within the Senate race.
The Senate Management Fund, the Republican counterpart to the Senate Majority PAC, has not introduced any investments to assist Cruz within the race.
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Tv adverts have been a key component to Allred’s marketing campaign, which has needed to sort out his low title recognition exterior of his native Dallas.
Cruz anticipated an inflow of fundraising for his challenger early within the cycle. After former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke blasted by means of fundraising data and got here inside 3-percentage factors of defeating Cruz in 2018, Cruz signaled to Republican donors that no seat is protected, even in a state like Texas the place Republicans have managed all statewide places of work for a technology.
Cruz’s marketing campaign has raised greater than twice the quantity it did in 2018.
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