{"id":8302,"date":"2025-07-01T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/texas-democrat-who-lost-to-ted-cruz-8-months-ago-jumps-into-2026-senate-race\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:03:22","slug":"texas-democrat-who-lost-to-ted-cruz-8-months-ago-jumps-into-2026-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/texas-democrat-who-lost-to-ted-cruz-8-months-ago-jumps-into-2026-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Democrat who lost to Ted Cruz 8 months ago jumps into 2026 Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Texas Rep. Colin Allred is making another run for the U.S. Senate after the Democrat lost to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz<\/a> just eight months ago.<\/p>\n

Allred is looking to challenge for the seat of Republican Sen. John Cornyn<\/a>, who is facing his own challenge from within the Republican Party from Texas Attorney General\u00a0Ken Paxton.<\/p>\n

Allred announced his return to the political arena with a campaign video released Tuesday, in which he took shots at both Cornyn and Paxton, describing them as “too corrupt to care about us and too weak to fight for us.”<\/p>\n

A former NFL linebacker and attorney, Allred retold the story of how he went undrafted in the NFL but worked hard enough to eventually turn pro and buy his mom a house.<\/p>\n

TEXAS AG KEN PAXTON ANNOUNCED RUN FOR US SENATE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“The truth is you shouldn\u2019t have to have a son in the NFL to own a home,” Allred said.<\/p>\n

“Everything is backwards,” he continued. “Folks who play by the rules and keep the faith just can\u2019t seem to get ahead. But the folks who cut corners and cut deals \u2014 well, they\u2019re doing just fine.”<\/p>\n

Allred pledged to run on an “anti-corruption plan.”<\/p>\n

“I know Washington is broken,” he said. “The system is rigged. But it doesn\u2019t have to be this way. In six years in Congress, I never took a dime of corporate PAC money, never traded a single stock.”<\/p>\n

TEXAS DEM ALLRED SAYS HE OPPOSES \u2018BOYS IN GIRLS\u2019 SPORTS’ DESPITE PAST OF ALLOWING IT, FIGHTING PARENTAL RIGHTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Allred’s announcement comes just eight months after he lost by nearly 9 percentage points to Cruz. That race was one of the most expensive in the country last cycle, with Democrats spending<\/a> more than $130 million trying to unseat Cruz.<\/p>\n

Allred played four seasons in the NFL, all with the Tennessee Titans<\/a>, after being undrafted out of Baylor University. He entered Congress by flipping a Republican district in Dallas in 2018.<\/p>\n

Former\u00a0astronaut Terry Virts\u00a0also entered the U.S. Senate race as a Democratic candidate.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

– FOX NEWS<\/p>\n

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Former Texas Rep. Colin Allred is making another run for the U.S. Senate after the Democrat lost to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz just eight months ago. Allred is looking to challenge for the seat of Republican Sen. John Cornyn, who is facing his own challenge from within the Republican Party from Texas Attorney General\u00a0Ken Paxton. 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