Ted Cruz crushed in fundraising numbers by his Democratic opponent

Federal Election Commission reports show that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is having a difficult time raising money for his reelection bid for Senate.

Cruz, who spends most of his days working on his podcast, brought in a little over $3 million, noticed senior Daily Beast political reporter Roger Sollenberger. While his challenger Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX), a former Baylor University linebacker, brought in $4.7 million.

What is perhaps the largest financial news, however, is that Cruz has considerably less cash on hand than Allred.

Cruz's cash on hand is $5,756,097, whereas Allred has just under $8 million at $7,919,984.

Campaign money is one of the top ways that party committees judge viability. Cruz enjoys the security of incumbency, but he has always remained unpopular among his colleagues in the Senate, the Texas Tribune reported in 2015 before he ran for U.S. president.

While he should have enormous support from his state, Cruz was just 7 points up from Allred after the congressman announced in May. That's with a plus or minus margin of error of "2.9% for the analysis of all registered voters and a margin of error of +/-4.8% and +/-5.1% for the analysis of Republican and Democratic primary voters respectively."

The conservative Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation showed, "49% of registered voters do not know enough about Allred to have either a favorable or unfavorable opinion about him, while only 6% do not know enough about Cruz to have an opinion about the senator.”

The poll was taken mere days after Allred announced his candidacy.

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