Get ready for a dopamine high. The video you’re about to watch will make your heart sing. Rep. Colin Allred has announced that he’s running for Ted Cruz’s senate seat and this man is a jewel of a candidate. I mean a jewel. If you were going to design a candidate with all the perfect bona fides, you could not come up with anybody better than this. He’s from a working class background, his mom was a single parent, he never knew his father. He grew up to go to college, law school and then play football with the NFL. And now he’s the U.S. representative who’s going to take down Ted Cruz. How sweet it is. How sweet it will be to watch it go down.
Here’s the Red Dog Democrat who may do the impossible and turn Texas blue.
Jonathan Last’s take on this is noteworthy.
Apologies to Beto O’Rourke, but if you want to take down an incumbent Republican in Texas, this is the way to do it. Allred is running as a Red Dog Democrat, focusing on jobs, veterans, and above all else, Texans.
To win, Allred will have to get a bunch of Republicans to vote for him. How does he do that? He’s not running against “Republicans.” He’s running against Ted Cruz, who’s basically a podcaster and conservative influencer with a side-hustle as a U.S. senator.
Here’s what Allred told us on TNL that really resonated with me, and may resonate with a lot of Texas voters:
I am personally insulted that this guy [Ted Cruz] is doing three podcasts a week. I represent a little less than a million Texans—he represents 30 million—and I am so busy. . . .
He’s a content machine. He’s not a legislative machine.
I know that many of us feel that we have one senator here. When a crisis hits Texas, it’s going to be [Republican Sen. John] Cornyn who responds for us. It’s not going to be Sen. Cruz.
Last says, “That’s how you create a permission structure for suburban Republicans to pull the lever for a Democrat.” This is a good concept. We need to incorporate this into every election. Make it about the candidate doing the job for the people and not one tribe vs. the other. In the end, it’s going to be the individual that works for the people or not. Not the tribe.
On the one hand you have this soft, middle-aged, mullet-beard, Ivy League weirdo who spends his time shit-posting and jet-setting. And then you have a young, former NFL player who talks about nothing but the economy and jobs and serving Texans—and basically says that he wouldn’t have challenged the other Republican senator because that guy does a good job for his constituents.
The Allred case against Cruz isn’t: Don’t vote for this crazy, evil Republican.
It’s: Don’t vote for this layabout who doesn’t do his job for you.
If the national environment is at par, I think that gives Allred a real shot.
This is gospel. Ted Cruz is one of the worst senators in the country and Texas is a huge state. They deserve some actual representation. And they may get it. Last goes on to cite a few interesting facts.
The last time Cruz was up for reelection, 500,000 Texans voted for Greg Abbott and then split the ticket and voted for Beto O’Rourke. This is how despised the man is. And this time Cruz won’t have the benefit of a gubernatorial election to ride the coattails of and if he’s riding Trump’s coattails, I don’t think that’s going to have the desired effect. Trump’s 2020 Texas vote was lower than his 2016. I think it’s reasonable to anticipate that that trend will be even more pronounced this time. Ted may be toast.
An article I read recently said Allred is a really good fundraiser. I expect there will be a lot of money thrown at this race.
It would be magical if Allred could pull this off. And I have good feelings about Allred. I see Obama in this man. He just might be there somewhere down the road.
already gave$$$!
Thank you for reminding me I didn’t put a link in so people could contribute. I’ll be mindful of that.
One thing Cruz has going for himself.
Type 2 diabetes.
What a fat f4ck.
He is about to have his diabetic @ss handed to him.
From what I have read during the past few years is that Ted Cruz is one of the most hated persons in the entire Senate. If I lived in Texas, rather than Arizona, I would vote for anyone who runs against him no matter who that person might be. Even a jellyfish would do a better job of helping Texans.