Sen. Ted Cruz has taken a 10-point lead over Beto O'Rourke in the highly watched Texas Senate race, according to a poll released Tuesday.
Sen. Cruz leads O'Rourke, 52-42 percent, just one week before the midterm elections in the survey conducted by the conservative-leaning Dixie Strategies and CBS 11.
"Well, it looks like things have really turned around for Ted Cruz in Texas," said Brian Graham, Managing Partner of Dixie Strategies. "To be a Democrat and win in Texas, you have to be a certain kind of Democrat . . . almost a conservative Democrat . . . Mr. O'Rourke is not necessarily that conservative."
The spread between the competitors last month was just 4 percentage points, 46-42.