Texas Senator Furious – No Help from McConnell PAC

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is not very happy right now in the midst of an extremely tight Senate race.

According to Cruz, the main PAC of McConnell’s is not helping him in his race against Rep. Allred (D-TX).

A Little Help Please

Living in Texas, I have been wondering what in the world is going on with Senator Cruz and his campaign because I have barely seen an ad on TV.

At the same time, I see about half a dozen ads for Allred every day. It is a massive media blitz, and it is having a huge impact on this election.

If we go back to the 2018 election, Cruz was in a tight race against Democrat Beto O’Rourke. Cruz was clearly hurt in the 2016 election by Trump, and he had fallen out of favor with a lot of conservatives in the state for how he cowered to Trump’s attacks, especially about Cruz’s wife.

Cruz managed to hang on, but the Democrats smelled blood in the water and were immediately poised to go after Cruz again in 2024. Allred’s campaign has been stuffed with money from Senator Schumer’s (D-NY) PAC and many rich donors from outside the state (more on that in a moment).

My feeling about Cruz in Texas is that conservatives vote for him because they have to, not because they want to. Cruz would be out if a viable candidate ever primaried him. The point is that Texans are not necessarily writing big checks for Cruz, and it is hurting him in this election.

Feuding with McConnell

Cruz is being dwarfed in fundraising, which is why he needs help from McConnell’s PAC. The kicker here is that Cruz has been feuding with Senate Minority Leader McConnell (R-KY) since Trump became president.

While McConnell does not shell out the money, his loyalists do, and they are not writing checks for Ted Cruz during this cycle.

Cruz recently addressed this while appearing on Mark Levin’s show, stating, “McConnell runs the largest Republican super PAC in the country and has $400 million but that super PAC is used to reward the Republican senators who obey him and to punish those who dare to stand up to him.”

Cruz continued, “[Democrats] have been running attack ads nonstop. I just got up on TV three weeks ago. Now, it’s not that I didn’t want to be on TV three months ago. We didn’t have the money. We’re being massively outspent.

“Poll after poll show this race as a one-point race or a two-point race or a three-point race. There are two public polls that have come out that show me losing. It is an incredibly close race,” he added.

"Leaning Republican"

The race is so tight that the Cook Political Report has downgraded the seat to now “leaning Republican.” In the two most recent polls, Cruz is holding three and four points, hardly a large enough margin to get comfortable, especially when you don’t have money and your opponent is flush.

I don’t like McConnell and never have. Rather than doing his job and helping Republicans who win their primary, he picks and chooses the candidates who fit his mold rather than who the people of this country and their respective states have chosen. And that is precisely why he is going to be out as leader after the current session is completed.

As to my point about money, why do we allow out-of-state money to be donated to congressional campaigns? Why are California and New York people permitted to influence a race in Texas?

In an ideal world, only donations from city residents and businesses would be permitted in local campaigns, state money for state campaigns, and the ONLY campaign that should be permitted, in my opinion, to accept funds from around the country would be the presidential campaign. Just imagine how infuriated Democrats would be if they found out they can no longer try to buy elections in red states with blue state money.