MADISON, Wisconsin — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned his fellow Texas Republicans on Thursday not to take his reelection for granted. “Texas is a battlefield,” Cruz said.

Cruz, who spun up election deniers with his amplification of Trump's lies, hid in a supply closet. (He said so in a memoir.) "He shouldn't have been hurt by the mob.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks to delegates at the 2024 Texas GOP Convention in San Antonio on May 25, 2024. (Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune, Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune) ...

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks to delegates at the 2024 Texas GOP Convention in San Antonio on May 25, 2024. Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune ...

FILE - Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, spoke at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition on Nov. 19, 2022, in Las Vegas.

Ted Cruz's call for a needed “better system” in the wake of the Texas floods that have left several dead and missing receives ...

MADISON, Wisconsin — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned his fellow Texas Republicans on Thursday not to take his reelection for granted. “Texas is a battlefield,” Cruz said.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, with several of his Senate colleagues discuss during a news conference how the Biden administration's upcoming sanctions on America's ability to produce oil and critical ...

The other image is that of Ted Cruz, Texas’ Republican junior senator, traveling to Cancún, Mexico on Wednesday, while millions of his constituents were freezing at home, many without power ...

And I hate Ted Cruz.” Cruz also faced widespread backlash for traveling to Cancún in 2021 as Texas was lashed by a historic winter storm that crashed the state power grid.

Trump endorsed Cruz in the race. “It’s hard to believe he’s in a race, because honestly, I don’t know who would want to run against him,” Trump said of Cruz during a Texas campaign event.

Yet, to the surprise of Texas Republicans, a recent poll indicated that Democratic Rep. Colin Allred has managed to shrink incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz's lead to only 4 points.