Colin Allred says Texas Republican Party is seeing an 'internal civil war'
Source: The Hill
03/10/24 5:03 PM ET
Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) said he thinks his Senate campaign against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) can achieve victory because the Texas Republican Party is in disarray, and Democrats can pull off an upset in the Lone Star State.
I actually think that what were seeing is an internal civil war in Texas among
[the] Republican Party, and its going in the direction of the folks who I dont think reflect the mass majority of Texans, right? Allred said Sunday in an MSNBC The Weekend interview. Were getting away from the George W. Bushs and the Rick Perrys and towards this extremely far right.
Texas GOP leaders purged several incumbents namely those who had previously defied them through primary campaign efforts, especially targeting those who backed efforts to impeach state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R). Paxton was accused of using his office for political favors. He was impeached but not convicted.
Allred, who cruised to victory in the Democratic primary last week, has maintained successful fundraising efforts for his race against Cruz. He nearly raised more than Cruz in 2023, but he is still slightly behind the senator, according to Federal Election Commission filings from January. The Dallas congressman predicted that the right-wing shift of Texas Republicans is tearing his opponents party apart, and that it could leave an opening for a Democrat to get elected.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4522776-colin-allred-says-texas-republican-party-is-seeing-an-internal-civil-war/
IronLionZion
(45,580 posts)area51
(11,932 posts)NonPC
(308 posts)Embarrassing to Teddy. No real defense against that message.
FakeNoose
(32,833 posts)ananda
(28,888 posts)I think he has a shot!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,748 posts)Wonder Why
(3,290 posts)They deserve it.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,748 posts)republianmushroom
(13,767 posts)DoBW
(647 posts)his Colinostopy is coming up
cstanleytech
(26,340 posts)Edit: Assuming even has one to sooth in the first place.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,748 posts)It will continue monthly for the foreseeable future.
Your thread brought me on board!
Thank you for giving us all hope.
BumRushDaShow
(129,741 posts)Am hoping he can be the one to expel Carnival Cruise once and for all.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,510 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,228 posts)Abbott, Paxton and Cruz are much smarter and therefore more dangerous.
BumRushDaShow
(129,741 posts)who seems to skirt around the edges of the loons.
TxGuitar
(4,212 posts)During his last campaign- he sounded like a Dem- didn't mention Trump at all and barely a mention of being Rethug. We have noticed that on many of our local/state contests- Republicans are not advertising the fact that they are Rethugs-- now they advertise as "conservative"...... Maybe we really are getting closer to purple!
BumRushDaShow
(129,741 posts)where a candidate won't identify their party in the advertising and will avoid any campaign literature that uses "red" or "blue" print and/or backgrounds, and instead will be done in green or yellow, etc. It forces the voter to really dig or hope any opposition candidate calls them out.
Kennah
(14,348 posts)Don't underestimate them
prodigitalson
(2,449 posts)notice I didn't say the last good one, that was Ann Richards. But starting with Rick Perry and continuing through Abbott, it has just been who can be the craziest crook that ever crooked.
Aristus
(66,481 posts)I guess we got so snockered by Bush's schoolboy crush on Michelle Obama, we forgot what an utter shit he was, and likely still is.
I don't know that he was ever interested in governing beyond bearing the title.
People who knew him best during his tenure in Austin said he would come in to the office, play video games for a few hours, and then go home.
And time was, we recognized GWB as far-right. Just because subsequent developments in the GOP have flung the party in Nazi territory doesn't mean GWB wasn't far-right all along.
prodigitalson
(2,449 posts)if you think they were better you are certainly entitled to that opinion
I don't share it
SARose
(264 posts)Covid deaths in this State are approaching the population of Waco, Tx. Sadly, most were over 65 and conservative. Texas Republicans cannot recruit enough young folks to replace them. Touched a nerve with Cornyn with an email I sent him.
Texans and visitors - I challenge you to leave the interstate highways and drive the Ranch Roads and Farm-to-Market roads. Our small towns are dying. There are Texans living in towns that lack schools, grocery stores, gas stations, etc. Some pregnant women in Texas drive 70 miles or more to give birth. Poverty is high. Most of these towns are majority over 65 and mostly widows. They encouraged their children to get an education and sent them to Tech, A&M, Baylor and they never returned. So, so sad.
Abbott spent or pledged 6 billion dollars on Operation Lone Star.
NanaCat
(1,358 posts)That means most of the people living in those places with no schools, gas stations, grocery stores, local hospitals and so on voted to have no access to modern amenities--nay, what are basic amenities in the blue cities they sneer at and deride. Maybe if they'd cared less about their guns, churches and hate, and more about their community, their towns wouldn't be dying now.
I feel sorry for the kids stuck in those go-nowhere places who will never have a chance at a decent life if their communities become so isolated and broke that the kids can't even afford to leave anymore. But I don't feel sorry for any of the adults who voted for their own destruction because they were too full of hate to remember what matters.
They're getting exactly what they voted for, and thus what they deserve.
I have kin living in these small towns. Do you? Do you live in Texas?
If not, why bless your heart.
BumRushDaShow
(129,741 posts)Small town TX dishwasher who leaves for the "big city" - New York - to make a name for himself.
(sorry for the RW loon Voight reference but... )
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,722 posts)Paxton is targeting people who voted to impeach him and Abbott is targeting people who did not vote for his voucher scam. This will be fun to watch
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)But as a sixth generation Texan, I dont see it happening. Would love to be happily surprised. Oh, please!!!
But in my circle of Republicans (I.e., those I have to work with because I dont have any friends that are Republican - by my choice), they all love Cruz and think he hung the moon.
Yes. I work with idiots. Its just that there are a lot of them down here.