Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday unveiled an effort designed to boost Republicans in Texas, after Democrats made sweeping gains in the state in last week’s midterm elections.
Cruz said his political group, Saving Texas, is establishing a physical headquarters in Austin. The site will be used to coordinate candidate recruitment, grassroots infrastructure, fundraising, and more, according to Axios, and comes after Republicans saw stunning losses in a state that has historically been solidly red, and which the GOP likely must hold if it wishes to win presidential elections.
“Texas is my home. It’s where I’ve raised my family, where I’ve fought for conservative principles, and where I’ve had the extraordinary honor of representing 32 million Texans in the United States Senate,” Cruz said.
“The work of rebuilding our party begins right here,” he continued. “That’s why Saving Texas is establishing its headquarters in Austin, in the capital of the Lone Star State.”
Cruz is widely expected to make a bid to succeed President Donald Trump in the White House in 2028, alongside possible contenders ranging from Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Govs. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Brian Kemp (R-GA).
With Texas now in play for Democrats, who flipped Texas’s Senate and governor’s seats last week, Republicans could face an even tougher battle to keep the White House red in 2028, as the state’s 40 electoral votes are considered a must-win for any GOP contender.
Cruz has suggested that failures to address voters’ concerns about the cost of living led to the GOP’s defeat.
He described Ken Paxton’s loss to Sen.-elect James Talarico (D-TX) and Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R-TX) loss to Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa (D-TX) as a “Watergate-level repudiation” on his podcast last week.
ACCIDENTAL WINNERS FROM THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS
“We were saying that 2026 was the most consequential midterm election of our lifetimes. Unfortunately, we were right,” the Texas senator said during an episode of The Verdict with Ted Cruz. “Texas is blue. That is a hard sentence to utter.”
“We need to listen and respond,” Cruz continued. “We need to champion economic policies that make a real difference in working people’s lives, and we need to deal with the consequences.”