Fox News Decision Desk projects Ted Cruz wins third term, defeating Dem Colin Allred

The Fox News Decision Desk projected that incumbent Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz volition decision his Democratic hostile Rep. Colin Allred connected Tuesday, and triumph a 3rd word successful the U.S. Senate. 

Cruz won his past re-election effort successful 2018, beating Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke. 

Cruz has represented the Lone Star State successful the precocious enclosure of Congress since 2013. 

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Colin Allred, left, and Ted Cruz (Getty Images)

Allred represents Texas’ 32nd Congressional District successful the House. 

Cruz is simply a postgraduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He antecedently clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist and was solicitor wide of Texas. Cruz argued 9 cases earlier the Supreme Court. 

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Cruz sits connected 4 Senate committees – Foreign Relations, Judiciary, Rules and Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 

Sen. Ted Cruz successful Washington, D.C., connected July 30, 2024. (Allison Bailey/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Cruz won his past Senate contention by astir 3 points successful 2018.

Allred, 40, a erstwhile NFL player, polled somewhat down Cruz passim the race, but experts believed it would beryllium close. 

No Democrat has won a statewide bureau successful Texas successful 30 years, the longest losing streak of its benignant successful the U.S. 

Allred, though, had ousted a Republican incumbent earlier – Rep. Pete Sessions successful 2018. 

Sen. Ted Cruz walks retired of a gathering country for the lawyers of President Trump during the impeachment proceedings connected Capitol Hill connected Feb. 12, 2021. (Getty Images)

During his campaign, Allred emphasized his inheritance arsenic the kid of a azygous parent who earned a shot assistance astatine Baylor University, played successful the NFL and worked for the Obama medication earlier being elected to Congress.

Allred made headlines successful January erstwhile helium was among 14 House Democrats who backed a Republican solution successful Congress that criticized President Biden’s handling of the border. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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