In general, the poll shows Texas Republicans want Cruz to be their candidate for Senate again in 2018 – but not overwhelmingly.
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Cruz announced in May his plans to run for re-election when his senate term expires.
Rick Perry (R) leads Sen. Cruz holds a 22-point lead over Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) and a 32-point lead over Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas). Cruz returned to the Senate after he had dropped out of the US presidential race. U.S. Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-San Antonio) told reporters at the Democratic National Convention in July that he is also considering a run against Cruz.
Against Perry, who shares Cruz’s universal name recognition, Cruz would face a 9 point deficit at 46/37, he says. Right now Patrick and Rick Perry have not expressed interest in running for the seat. Greg Abbott remains the most popular Republican in Texas, with a net approval rating of +24. Wendy Davis and U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro by a 12-point margin.
Furthermore, a majority of Texas Republicans said they did not prefer Cruz as their presidential nominee.
“Ted Cruz did take a little bit of a hit”, Henson said. The junior senator from Texas won the state’s Republican presidential primary with 44 percent of the vote.
“Does any of this look fatal?” “I think that’s an obligation that we have to support the nominee”. “It’s going to be very different in six to eight months, let alone a year from now, let alone two years from now”.
One other tidbit from the poll, according to the Tribune, 89 percent of Texans said every person who wants to buy a gun should undergo a criminal background check while 83 percent support legislation to ban people on the terrorist watch list from buying a gun.
The overall poll has a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points while the questions that were only put to Republicans have a margin of error of 4.3 percentage points.
Another standout finding from the poll is that despite Texas’ proud pro-gun tradition, voters strongly support some new regulations on the purchase of firearms.
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