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Looking ahead to next year’s elections and where Ted Cruz’s position in the Senate is projected to be at risk, the 52-year-old Republican He used social networks to mock the low popularity of an applicant who seeks to remove him from his position.
Last May, Representative Colin Allred, one of 11 candidates running in the Democratic primary for the United States Senate in Texas, He launched a provocative comment that sounded like a declaration of war.
“I am running for the United States Senate because Texans deserve a senator whose team is Texas. Ted Cruz only cares about himself“, he wrote on social networks.
From that point on, the former undrafted free agent for the Tennessee Titans in the NFL, became an adversary of the Republican senator who did not hesitate to try to exhibit it as soon as the opportunity arose.
Allred recently shared four photos on his X account, formerly known as Twitter, which he accompanied by the phrase “Bexar County is ready to fire Ted Cruz!“
in them, the former football player poses next to a group of people that does not exceed half a dozen in what appears to be a small bar during a stop on his promotional route for the campaign called Lone Star Listening Tour.
Because the site looks half empty, Ted Cruz leaned on it and wrote a sarcastic message on the social network X.
“Wow, six people showed up in San Antonio,” indicates the text through which the invitation seems to be open for both politicians to begin criticizing their movements. and actions as representatives of the citizenry.
It should be noted that Colin Allred was first elected to a seat in the House of Representatives in 2018 and later won his re-election, obtaining 116,005 votes against his opponent’s 61,494, which now gives him confidence to try to displace Ted Cruz in the Senate.
Regarding the politician born in Calgary, Canada, he won his re-election in 2018 after defeating former representative Beto O’Rourke.
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