Ted Cruz leading Colin Allred by double digits in latest UT poll [Video]

DALLAS — This article was first published by The Texas Tribune. You can read the initial version here.

With less than five months before Election Day, incumbent Ted Cruz leads Democratic challenger Colin Allred by 11 percentage points in the state’s U.S. Senate race, according to the latest University of Texas/ Texas Politics Project Poll.

Cruz, a Republican who is vying for a third term, was favored by 45% of the survey’s respondents compared to Allred’s 34%. Six percent of voters said they would prefer someone other than Cruz and Allred and 14% said they hadn’t thought about it enough to have an opinion.

Jim Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project, said Allred, a three-term Dallas congressman, has  “yet to make an impression on a lot of people.”

“Part of the upshot of …