WASHINGTON _ Texas Sen. Ted Cruz leads Democrat Beto O'Rourke by six percentage points, according to a new Quinnpiac University poll released Wednesday.
The survey, one of the few independent, nonpartisan pollsters offering data on the race, showed Cruz at 49 percent. O'Rourke, a congressman from El Paso, took 43 percent.
"O'Rourke makes a good impression on voters, but only about half the Texas electorate has formed an opinion of him," Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Poll, said in a statement. "Sen. Cruz has a good favorability overall and is the much better known of the two men."
