{"id":509,"date":"2023-05-01T20:13:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T02:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2023-05-01T20:13:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T02:13:37","slug":"rising-star-democrat-colin-allred-set-to-challenge-ted-cruz-for-u-s-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/rising-star-democrat-colin-allred-set-to-challenge-ted-cruz-for-u-s-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Star Democrat Colin Allred Set to Challenge Ted Cruz for U.S. Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rising star Democrat Rep. Colin Allred looks set to announce he will run against Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for his 2024 his U.S. Senate seat. Allred is a former NFL player and has won re-election in his Dallas-area district in 2020 and in 2022. He unseated GOP Rep. Pete Sessions in 2018. This could be a tough race for Cruz, but Texas is still a very conservative state. Let&#8217;s hope Cruz can run a good race and keep this seat red in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Democratic Rep. Colin Allred is planning to announce a run against Sen. Ted Cruz as soon as this week, according to two people familiar with his plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A former NFL player-turned-civil rights attorney, Allred has been quietly prepping for a run against Cruz for months. During his two successful reelection bids since ousting an entrenched incumbent in 2018, Allred has proven a prolific fundraiser. He\u2019s well-liked within the Democratic Caucus and has also picked up positions in leadership, now serving as a member of House Minority Whip Katherine Clark\u2019s (D-Mass.) team and as previously part of then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s (D-Calif.) expansive leadership team. . . . <\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/05\/01\/allred-texas-senate-cruz-00094674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">POLITICO<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising star Democrat Rep. Colin Allred looks set to announce he will run against Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for his 2024 his U.S. Senate seat. Allred is a former NFL player and has won re-election in his Dallas-area district in 2020 and in 2022. He unseated GOP Rep. Pete Sessions in 2018. This could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,131,130,128,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30","category-colin-allred","category-ted-cruz","category-texas","category-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}