Ted Cruz, Beto O’Rourke hit campaign trail during Fourth of July week

Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, left, and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. Houston Chronicle photos by Brett Coomer, left, and Karen Warren. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, left, and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. Houston Chronicle photos by Brett Coomer, left, and Karen Warren. Photo: File, Staff / Houston Chronicle Photo: File, Staff / Houston Chronicle Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Ted Cruz, Beto O’Rourke hit campaign trail during Fourth of July week 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

AUSTIN — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is planning a 10-city push through Texas during the 4th of July week as he runs for re-election.

Cruz, who is battling Democrat Beto O’Rourke in November, announced he will start in College Station on Tuesday and make stops in Waco, Texarkana and several spots in East Texas by the end of the week.

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On Wednesday he’ll attend a July Fourth Parade in Rockwall, then catch a fireworks display later that night in Talco, a town of about 500 people an hour west of Texarkana.

O’Rourke, a Congressman from El Paso, is also hitting the road on an 11-city run this week with stops in Pasadena, Austin, Arlington and several other locations within Dallas County by the end of the week.

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O’Rouke will be spending Fourth of July in Austin at an event being hyped as “Bandas con Beto” or Bands with Beto.

Recent polling shows a tight race between Cruz and O’Rourke. Though Cruz has a national profile, O’Rourke has outraised him financially through much of the campaign.

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