FIRST ON FOX — It was one other strong fundraising quarter for Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz as he builds assets for his marketing campaign for re-election this yr to a 3rd six-year time period within the Senate.
The conservative firebrand lawmaker introduced in $5.5 million throughout the October-December fourth quarter of 2023 fundraising, in keeping with figures shared first with Fox Information on Thursday morning.
Cruz’s haul from his three fundraising committees is up barely from the $5.4 million he introduced within the earlier three months. He raised $4.4 million throughout the April-June second quarter and $1.8 million throughout the first three months of 2023.
The senator’s fourth quarter haul can also be a $3.7 million enhance from the ultimate three months of 2017, the same fundraising quarter throughout his 2018 re-election marketing campaign.
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Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz speaks at a donor convention hosted by the conservative group the Membership for Development on March 3, 2023 in Palm Seashore, Florida. (Fox Information )
The senator’s staff additionally highlighted that, moreover, the Ted Cruz Victory Fund introduced in $1.4 million that was transferred to the Nationwide Republican Senatorial Committee — the Senate GOP’s marketing campaign arm — and to the Republican Celebration of Texas.
The marketing campaign showcased that that they had 78,000 distinctive contributions, with a median contribution of $36.67, from Texans in 247 out of the Lone Star State’s 254 counties, in addition to supporters in all 50 states.
The Cruz marketing campaign additionally reported that it closed out 2023 with over $7.3 million cash-on-hand.
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Cruz spokesman Nick Maddux informed Fox Information in an announcement that “we continue to see an increase in energy and support from patriots across the Lone Star State and the nation. Texans are fired up to re-elect Senator Ted Cruz and ensure that Texas remains our nation’s conservative stronghold.”
Moreover, he argued that “the stakes could not be higher as the radical left threatens to dismantle our Texan way of life, which is why Senator Cruz will continue blazing his campaign trail with the people of Texas to ensure that we keep Texas Texas.”
Cruz has stated that his re-election bid is “going to be a firefight,” and there’s a massive area of Democrats gunning to win their celebration’s nomination and face off with him in November.
Cruz, who narrowly defeated then-Rep. Beto O’Rourke in a hard-fought 2018 Senate battle, touted in a Fox Information Digital interview final yr that, after former President Trump, “there is no Republican in the country that Democrats hate more than me.”
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He added that’s “something I wear as a badge of honor. There is no Republican that they would like to beat more than me.”
Cruz was considerably out-raised in that 2018 showdown by O’Rourke, and Rep. Colin Allred, essentially the most distinguished of the Democrats operating to tackle Cruz, topped the senator by almost $2 million throughout the second quarter of 2023, however the senator topped Allred within the third quarter by roughly $600,000.
Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, arrives on the U.S. Capitol for the final votes of the week, on Thursday, April 20, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Photos)
Allred has but to announce his fourth quarter fundraising. Candidates for the Senate have till Jan. 15 to file their studies with the Federal Election Fee.
Senate Democrats are defending their fragile 51-49 majority in November’s elections.
Republicans want a web acquire of both one or two seats to win again the bulk — relying on which celebration controls the White Home after subsequent yr’s presidential election.
The maths and the map favor the GOP, because the Democrats are defending 23 of the 34 seats up for grabs, together with three in crimson states and a handful in key common election battlegrounds.
