In the wake of a blue wave that has washed Republicans around the U.S. out of office, Sen. Ted Cruz will soon be the only remaining member of the GOP to hold a statewide-elected political seat in the recently deep-red state of Texas.

“2026 was not simply a blue wave, it was a blue tsunami,” the three-term Senator said on his podcast following Election Day, when a series of stunning Democratic victories shifted control of both chambers of Congress, as well as Texas’ executive branch and state House, out of Republicans’ hands. “Texas is blue. That is a hard sentence to utter.”

Cruz was not up for reelection this midterm season, but every Republican who was on the ballot in Texas’ statewide races this year has been defeated.

Incumbent John Cornyn, Texas’ other Republican Senator, lost in his party’s primary to Attorney General Ken Paxton, who went on to lose in the general election to James Talarico.…