Democratic Texas Congressman Colin Allred, a former NFL player turned voting rights attorney turned politician, will announce his campaign to toss perhaps the most reviled member of the Senate, Ted Cruz (R-Quintana Roo) from his seat in the 2024 election, Politico reports.
Representing the Texas 32nd, a solid “blue” district north of Dallas, Allred has been in office since 2019. He played four seasons for the Tennessee Titans after attending Baylor. Cruz is best known for boasting about shutting down the government during the 2013 debt ceiling fight as well as fleeing to a Ritz Carlton resort in Cancun, Mexico during a winter storm that left millions of Texans without power. A persistent embarrassment for Texans, Cruz is a rare point of bipartisan agreement in the Senate: South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham once said of him, “If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.”