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Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina patted Cruz on the back and Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania, who voted for Cruz in his state's primary, shook his hand. Nancy Pelosi will be up for re-election just like every other member of Congress. You can watch the entire interview below: Literally Thousands of Doctors and Scientists Have Come Out Against Fauci’s Lockdowns Including a Nobel Prize-Winning Biophysicist. I don’t have the power to change that. Instead, the leaders were intently focused on the legislative business at hand. Thirty-five of the 100 Senate seats are up for reelection. Cruz cited his 2018 midterm reelection race against 2020 presidential wannabe and former congressman Beto O’Rourke in his analysis. He has yet to endorse Donald Trump, stoking speculation that he is angling for another run in four years. There are a total of 535 Members of Congress. Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia gave him a fist bump on his arm to get is attention and then spoke for a few minutes. Hoover also asked Cruz to predict which Democrat would eventually become the party’s 2020 nominee. To contact your Senator click here. The U.S. Senate elections will be held on November 3, 2020. When asked if Trump’s racially-charged rhetoric may hurt his chances in 2020, Sen. Cruz pivoted: The president regularly says and tweets things I wish he wouldn’t say. Under this system, legislation can be debated for one or two weeks on the Senate floor alone. On January 19, 2011, after U.S. I personally handicap the 2020 election as a coin flip. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci), Sen. Ted Cruz said during an interview with PBS’s “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover” that aired Friday that he believes the presidential election will be a “coin flip” and placed Trump’s reelection chances at “50-50.”. The current average age of all 100 Senators: 62. Ted Cruz plans to run for re-election in 2018 - CNNPolitics All Rights Reserved. 100 serve in the U.S. Senate, and 435 serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. While Cruz may ultimately decide not to run for re-election, his comments are clearly aimed at tamping down speculation that he will quit the Senate. Asked if Trump could be defeated, Cruz responded: As of now, there will be 23 Republican Senate seats on the line, while Democrats will only need to protect 12 seats. "I was encouraging him to really get to work here," Hatch told CNN later. Sen. Ted Cruz on 2020 election: 'Texas is a battleground' Texas’s two senators, a member of Congress and the governor were in North Texas on Tuesday, the same day early voting began in … O’Rourke was able to mobilize voters to turn out in droves in reliably red Texas. In the Republican senatorial primary, Cruz ran against sitting Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst. I want to see the president reelected, I’m working hard to help the president get reelected and think he certainly can get reelected. Posted at 1:00 pm on July 21, 2019 by Dan Spencer, President Donald Trump is greeted by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as he arrives for a campaign rally at Houston Toyota Center, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Houston. They are enraged by Donald Trump, and it means they’re going to show up, and the big open question is, does everybody else show up? He didn't elaborate on his thinking.

Cruz's comments come as he returns to Capitol Hill this week for the first time since dropping his presidential bid. The first term of US Senator from Texas Ted Cruz, who replaced Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison when she resigned in 2013, ends in January 2019, so he is up for reelection in November 2018. I wish he would say things differently.

Washington (CNN)Sen. Ted Cruz said Tuesday that he plans to run for re-election in Texas, putting to rest speculation that he may step aside to prepare for another run at the White House in 2020. "I just encouraged him to understand that people have differences of opinions," Hatch said. "He's got a big role to play here if he wants to.

Cruz won by a 3-point margin. On Wednesday Cruz officially reactivated his Senate campaign account, stating, Later Wednesday, Cruz sat down for lunch with Senate Republicans, according to several senators who were at the meeting.

"Wild ride," Cruz could be heard saying to them while shaking his head and looking at the floor. "He's got a lot of talent, a lot of ability.". "Yes," Cruz told CNN when asked if he would run again. Elections to the Senate are staggered over even years so that only about 1/3 of the Senate is up for reelection during any election.

"It's good to be back," Cruz could be heard telling Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, as she slipped past him to leave the floor.

Many strategists believe Cruz would be better served to skip a Senate re-election campaign in 2018 and instead focus on his presidential ambitions.

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said she would not seek reelection, Cruz announced his candidacy via a blogger conference call. Cruz responded  said he did not believe it would be former Vice President Joe Biden, would emerge from the crowd, but that it would likely be a more extreme leftist candidate: I think they are just galloping to the left, and I think that will continue throughout this primary, I think the nominee is going to come from the far left. The winners of those seats will serve a six-year term from January 3, 2021, until January 3, 2027. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, stood talking with him for several minutes. The winners of those seats will serve a six-year term from January 3, 2021, until January 3, 2027. In the Senate, the majority has the power to schedule when various bills come to the floor for voting, but a single Senator can slow legislation from coming to the floor for a vote. That could be because the freshman senator has frustrated and angered many of his colleagues by forcing weekend votes, overnight sessions and a high-profile shutdown of the government that many Republicans believe hurt their party.

But for the most part, the activity of the busy chamber swirled around Cruz, with most senators not paying attention to him. Below are the 35 Senate seats up for reelection in 2020 in alphabetical order by political party and state. Cruz was endorsed first by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and then by the Club for Growth The three who I would say are most likely are Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. The United States Senate elections will be held on November 3, 2020. Hoover asked Cruz four times whether Trump’s rhetoric harms his reelection bid, and he refused to directly answer the question each time.

GOP leaders such as McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. John Cornyn, the senior senator from Texas, were nearby but didn't approach Cruz. A few others senators said hello.

The Democrats in Texas more than doubled their turnout,” Cruz said. Top Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, were a few steps from Cruz but didn't seem to notice or care he was back.

“I think the Texas election in 2018 is powerful foreshadowing for what to expect across the country in 2020,” Cruz said, referring to his reelection battle against former Rep. Beto O’Rourke.