Hoping to bring people together
U.S. Rep. Colin Allred U.S. Rep. Colin Allred is running for the Senate because ‘we can’t afford six more years of Ted Cruz’ TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editor nash@dallasvoice.com Now in his third term representing Texas Congressional District 32 in the U.S.
House of Representatives, Colin Allred has put his congressional career on the line to take on Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2024 election.
Allred recently told Dallas Voice he made the decision because “I feel really strongly that we can’t afford six more years of Ted Cruz in the Senate.” Cruz, Allred said, “is one of the most divisive figures in politics, period.
He has consistently taken our state and the people of our state for granted. He is more interested in himself, in doing his podcasts or promoting his own book. “We have 30 million Texans who need a senator that cares about them,” Allred continued. “We are in a moment for our state, for our country, when we just can’t afford to have someone that divisive representing our state in the U.S.
