Ted Cruz spent weeks warning Republicans that Texas was about to fall.
And now he stands as the only Republican statewide official left in Texas.
Cruz just told conservatives exactly how he plans to bring Texas back.
Cruz Saw the Texas Blue Tsunami Coming Weeks Before Election Night
Senator Ted Cruz said that Texas Republicans were in trouble on his podcast and on the campaign trail for weeks before Election Day.
Democrats swept every single statewide race in Texas – starting with Greg Abbott, three-term incumbent and the most well-resourced governor in modern Texas history, who lost to Democrat state Rep. Gina Hinojosa, the first Democrat to win that race since Ann Richards in 1990.
Democrats also took the lieutenant governor's race, the attorney general, the comptroller, and a seat on the Railroad Commission.
Ken Paxton lost the Senate race to Democrat James Talarico, snapping a Republican Senate winning streak in Texas that stretched all the way back to 1988.
Cruz called it a "blue tsunami" and a "Watergate-level repudiation."
"Texas is blue," he wrote on X. "That is a hard sentence to utter. But Texas, today at least, is blue."
Voters were furious about the cost of living – food, gas, diesel, insurance – and Cruz claimed the GOP dropped the ball.
"Tariffs have made everything too expensive, and the Iran war has dragged on too long," he said. "It should have been brief, decisive and over. It needs to end."
That's a senator telling the truth about why working families walked away.
Conservative values didn't lose last Tuesday.
Ted Cruz Opens Saving Texas Headquarters With His Eyes on 2028
Cruz allies just launched "Saving Texas" – a nonprofit opening headquarters in Austin to coordinate candidate recruitment, grassroots infrastructure, and fundraising across a state that Republicans held safely for decades and now have to earn back from scratch.
"The work of rebuilding our party begins right here," Cruz said in a statement.
He's not waiting for 2030, when his own Senate seat comes up – he's building right now, while the rubble is still warm.
Democrats will move fast to cement what they won, pushing policies Cruz predicts will raise taxes and gut the energy industry that powers the Texas economy.
Cruz called James Talarico after the election, congratulated him, and signaled he would work with the new senator where their interests aligned – the smart move for a man who needs to hold the line and rebuild at the same time.
The voters who punished Republicans last Tuesday aren't the enemy. They're the coalition Cruz needs to win back – blue-collar workers, farmers, Hispanic voters, rural communities, young voters who decided the Iran war wasn't worth $5 gas.
"When they get to Washington, they are going to drive an extreme agenda that I think is gonna cause a lot of buyer's remorse for the voters who wanted something different," Cruz told Fox News.
"We've gotta be here to provide common sense, to provide free-market policies that actually make a difference for working men and women," he said.
"We have not suddenly become a bunch of tofu-eating, gun-banning, tutu-wearing pinko commie liberals," Cruz wrote. "That ain't us. Texas is still Texas."
"Texas will be red again," Cruz said.
Cruz's bet is that the anger is transactional, not ideological – voters punished Republicans for specific policies, not for conservative values.
The ones who left over grocery bills and $5 gas aren't gone forever. If Democrats in Austin and Washington overshoot, those voters come home, and Cruz intends to be there with the alternative.
Those 40 Texas electoral votes are a must-win for any Republican running for president in 2028, and Cruz has been eyeing that race for months.
Republicans have to do the hard work of building the infrastructure to win.
Texas will be red again.
Sources:
- Jack Phillips, "Texas Will Be Red Again: Cruz Opens 'Saving Texas' HQ After Democrat Rout," The Epoch Times, November 11, 2026.
- "Ted Cruz Says 'Blue Tsunami' Took Over Texas After Democrats Swept Statewide Races," Fox 7 Austin, November 5, 2026.
- "Ted Cruz Says 'Blue Tsunami' Took Over Texas After Democrats Swept Statewide Races," Fox 4 News, November 5, 2026.
- Ted Cruz interview, Fox News Sunday, November 8, 2026.