The matchup for the U.S. Senate seat from Texas comes just days before early voting starts in the Nov. 5 election.
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Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Democratic challenger U.S. Rep. Colin Allred will debate Oct. 15 in a televised event in Dallas that will take place less than a week before the start of early voting for the Nov. 5 election.
The debate was announced Friday by Dallas-Fort Worth ABC affiliate WFAA, which will be the anchor station for the matchup, which will also air live on its TEGNA-owned sister stations’ on-air and digital platforms across Texas.
Cruz – who is among Texas’ best-known elected officials after having run and won statewide twice and finishing second to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential primaries – is making a bid for a third six-year term in the Senate. He won his first race in 2012 by a comfortable 16-point margin, but he saw that spread shrink to a nail-biting 2.6 points when he faced a spirited and well-financed challenge from Democratic former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke of El Paso in 2018.
Allred, a three-term congressman from Dallas, is also well-financed but running a lower-key and more centrist race than the freewheeling campaign of the more outwardly liberal O’Rourke. Most recent polls show another tight race in the offing.
On Friday, Allred laid claim to his first lead in a poll. Morning Consult in a survey taken Sept. 9-18, put the Democrat up by a single point. That contrasts with a poll from Emerson College and The Hill taken earlier this month that shows Cruz at 48% and Allred at 44%. And last month’s University of Houston/Texas Southern University survey had Cruz leading Allred 46.6%-44.5%. However, the Texas Politics Project poll released around the same time put Cruz ahead 44%-36%.
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In addition to the main broadcast of the Oct. 15 debate, the Texas Association of Broadcasters will underwrite a real-time Spanish language translation of the debate that will be fed on an alternative audio channel of the satellite feed. A news release from TEGNA said an advisory outlining broadcast and digital usage rules for stations outside of its network will be emailed to Texas radio and TV stations.
The deadline to register to vote in the Nov. 5 election is Oct. 7. Early voting begins Oct. 21 and ends Nov. 1.
Where to watch the Oct. 15 Ted Cruz-Colin Allred debate
In addition to WFAA in Dallas-Fort Worth, the following outlets will carry the debate live:
KVUE (Austin)KHOU (Houston)KENS (San Antonio)KCEN (Waco)KAGS (College Station)KYTX (Tyler)KIII (Corpus Christi)KBMT-KJAC (Beaumont)KWES (Midland-Odessa)KXVA (Abilene)KIDY (San Angelo)
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