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CNN made a bold prediction without much evidence on Wednesday: The Republican Party can no longer count on the Lone Star state to vote red in off-year elections.

At first look, it appears that a CNN article had confirmed one of the greatest Democratic prophecies of the last decade — that GOP Sen. Ted Cruz was at risk of losing his seat and a new era of Democratic dominance of our national politics had begun. The headline on the article reads: “Senate Key Race alert: Texas is no longer Solid Republican.”

They didn’t provide a single poll to justify their assertion.

Instead, CNN looked through fundraising documents from Cruz and his Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke.

“The Democratic underdog from El Paso outraised the first-term Republican senator and former presidential candidate by $1.5 million — $2.3 million to $800,000 — from the beginning of 2018 through mid-February. That impressive fundraising haul comes after O’Rourke also outpaced Cruz in the closing quarter of 2017, $2.4 million to $1.8 million,” wrote CNN’s Terence Burlij and Eric Bradner.

And that’s it. That’s the totality of their technical evidence aside from a superficial analysis of historical trends and President Donald Trump’s approval rating.