A group of Texas Democrats has launched a super PAC aimed at unseating Republican incumbent Ted Cruz in 2024. The political action committee is called “Lose Cruz” and organizers say their goal is to make the case to Texas voters that the state's junior senator does not deserve a third term.

“It’s an uphill climb. There’s no question about it. But it’s also absolute fact that Ted Cruz has been a horrible senator,” Matt Angle, a senior adviser for the super PAC and the head of the Lone Star Project, said during an interview on Capital Tonight.  

Dallas Democratic Congressman Colin Allred has already launched a campaign and Sen. Roland Gutierrez of San Antonio is expected to run as well. PAC organizers say they won’t get involved in the primary and are laser focused on Cruz.

But a spokesperson for Cruz’s campaign said the new PAC was designed to boost Allred.

“It’s not surprising that Democrats are already starting to pour money into Colin Allred’s campaign,” the spokesperson said. “He has no name ID and is running on a radical leftist record that Texans have rejected time and time again. Allred is a reflection of the current state of the Democrat Party in Texas: unpopular, unknown and hopeless.” 

Organizers are promising to spend “millions” to target voters and run TV and digital ads against Cruz, among other outreach. They say Cruz is vulnerable and they’ll focus on what they call his unpopular positions and record.  

“Even John Cornyn figures out a way to help with things like rape kit backlogs and child sex trafficking, but Ted Cruz doesn’t do any of that,” Angle said. “If Ted Cruz is not getting on your nerves, then you don’t have a pulse, and it’s our job to make sure people know they can do better. They don’t have to accept someone like Ted Cruz as their senator.”

Cruz is up for a third six-year term in a state that has not elected a Democrat statewide since 1994.

Click the video link above to watch our full interview with Angle.