Senate Steering Committee Chairman Mike Lee (R-Utah) is calling for GOP political funding groups to spend more of their resources into Texas and Florida to help embattled conservative Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.).
Cruz is locked into a margin-of-error race against Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas), who is raising substantially more money than the GOP incumbent, and Scott faces a competitive race against former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-Fla.) in a state where an abortion rights measure is on the ballot.
Lee says the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), should do more to help Cruz and Scott, the Democrats’ top targets.
“I am worried about it. I think both Ted and Rick are ahead, but it’s closer than it should be,” Lee told Semafor. “It’s also troubling … there’s an inequity there. These guys are Republican colleagues, they’re in very close races in a general election, they could use the help.”