Texas Senator Ted Cruz easily won his reelection bid against Democratic challenger Colin Allred, scoring a two-digit lead with 80% of the votes tallied, according to NBC News. Concretely, the incumbent is getting 54.1% of the support compared to Allred's 43.8%, a much larger margin than what practically all polls projected.
As well as the unexpected margin, another noteworthy factor of Cruz's victory is the sheer amount of support he got among Latinos, actually winning the demographic, according to an exit poll by NBC News.
