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Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) declined to attend a meeting at CNN's mayor next week with his Democratic opponent, leaving the entire show for one hour to his rival, Rep. Beto O. 'Rourke.
Cruz and O'Rourke have embarked on a tight race at Cruz's US headquarters, and polls indicate the outgoing president retains a slight advantage. The last time Texas elected a Democrat in the US Senate, Lloyd Bentsen was re-elected in 1988.
CNN announced in an article reporting on its televised political events: "CNN Political Correspondent Dana Bash will host a one-hour public session in front of the Democratic Republic, Beto O. Rourke, who is appearing in the Senate on Thursday. American. October 18 at 7 pm ET / 6 pm CT at the McAllen Performing Arts Center, near the US-Mexico border. "
"The GOP Senator Ted Cruz's campaign initially accepted CNN's invitation to participate, and then declined the invitation, said a network official," CNN said.
Cruz's campaign manager, Jeff Roe, has challenged this account.
"Let's be clear," Roe tweeted, "the Cruz campaign proposed that @CNN be one of the Cruz-O'Rourke debates. The O'Rourke campaign was rejected. @CNN has subsequently offered consecutive town halls in which we can not participate. "
Roe did not explain why Cruz could not participate, but some Twitter users have speculated that the senator was afraid to appear in front of a city hall with O'Rourke.
At the same time, a new anti-Cruz advertisement directed by Richard Linklater has garnered nearly a million views on YouTube since it was released Monday by a political action committee called Fire Ted Cruz.
In the ad, the actor Sonny Carl Davis resumes his role of the film "Bernie" of Linklater and questions the accuracy of the slogan of the campaign of Cruz, "Tough as Texas".
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