Excitement is building among Democrats who believe they’re making headway in the Texas Senate race against incumbent and two-term Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, pointing to polling that shows them not losing as badly as they anticipated, The Hill reported Monday.

Although the RealClearPolitics polling average has Cruz leading Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, by 6 points with seven weeks to go before election day, “enthusiasm is high” among state Democrats for what they see as momentum since Vice President Kamala Harris became the party’s presidential candidate, according to the report.

“For a Democrat to win statewide Texas, it’s a big lift. It’s a heavy lift. But Colin Allred has pretty skillfully put himself in a position to be in striking distance here,” Matt Angle, founder and director of the Lone Star Project, a Democrat PAC in the state, told The Hill.

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