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Colin Allred: “Freedom is under attack right now by extremists like Ted…”

Featuring: Colin Allred, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Texas

FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred

Published July 10, 2024 | Video Starts at 03:02

… many Texans as possible and make sure they know my story and that it doesn't have to be this way. And I do think that fundamentally, here in our state, Freedom is under attack right now by extremists like Ted Cruz. Your freedom to make your own health care decisions, including access to an abortion. We have an abortion ban here. That has gone way too far, in my opinion. (03:02–03:07)

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Asserts that freedom is under attack in Texas by extremists, including Ted Cruz.

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Colin Allred

“Been named the most bipartisan member of the entire Texas congressional delegation.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 00:55-00:59
“Named the most bipartisan member of the entire Texas congressional delegation.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 00:55-00:59
“We've had 12 years of [Ted Cruz] who I think has really prided himself on being an extremist.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 01:44-01:51
“30 million Texans are freezing in the dark and [Ted Cruz] decide[s] it's a good time to go on vacation.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 01:56-02:00
“We've had about an average contribution of around 30 bucks.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 02:33-02:37
“We have an abortion ban here [in Texas].”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 03:09-03:12
“We've had really low voter turnout [in Texas].”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 04:00-04:03
“We have laws that make it difficult to vote [in Texas].”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 04:05-04:08
“I want to make sure that [my children] inherit a state and a country that's not just destroyed by divisions.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 04:17-30:14
“I won that race by nearly seven points.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 05:18-05:21
“His own colleagues are some of his harshest critics on his side of the aisle in the United States Senate.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 06:01-06:07
“Supported and endorsed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and also by major labor unions like the AFL-CIO.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 06:48-07:00
“We have not been delivering for Texans in a way that I think we should be.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 07:26-07:31
“We're going through a congressional session right now, which is one of the least productive Congresses in American history.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 07:33-07:38
“We went three weeks without even having a speaker for the first time.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 07:40-07:44
“The end result is that freedoms are under attack here in Texas, that we feel like our democracy itself is at risk.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 09:54-10:01
“It's bringing $35 billion to our state over five years with the Chips and Science act.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 10:31-10:36
“We passed the Safer Communities Act. John Cornyn helped push it through in the Senate, I helped push it through in the House.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 10:51-10:57
“I'm proud that we capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month for folks who are on Medicare.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 11:54-11:59
“Ted Cruz voted against it again. He also prevented us from capping that for folks who aren't on Medicare.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 11:59-12:05
“I'm the first member of Congress to ever take paternity leave.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 12:12-12:16
“We should have a national policy around [paid leave].”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 12:33-12:36
“We are still coming out of a pandemic.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 13:04-13:06
“We have to bring down inflation.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 13:23-13:26
“Over 20,000 Texas women have been forced to give birth to their rapist child.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 14:30-14:35
“Folks are already starting to say that they don't want to send their kids to school in Texas.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 15:53-15:59
“Our medical schools, we're seeing changes in who's applying to come here.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 15:54-15:59
“They're having a harder time attracting and retaining talent.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 15:58-16:02
“Most daycares won't even take a kid until they're past six months.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 17:22-17:27
“When you have policies that are pro family, like early childhood care, like universal pre K, like access to paid family leave, that it also…”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 17:37-17:48
“It's one of the first times that I'm aware of that we've seen a right that has been granted for over 50 years in the United States ripped…”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 18:26-18:37
“We are experiencing what a near total ban on abortion looks like.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 19:10-19:14
“There are hospitals that are going to be consulting with their doctors, not with their lawyers, about whether or not a woman is sick enough…”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 19:22-19:32
“In the last month of December of 23, we had a record number of crossings, 300,000 in a month.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 20:55-21:03
“We do have a crisis at the border. Venezuela is in collapse. We've seen millions of Venezuelans fleeing Venezuela.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 21:08-21:15
“We see what's happening in Haiti in terms of the gang violence that's forcing so many Haitians out of Haiti.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 21:14-21:20
“About 90% of [asylum seekers] are going to be rejected, but it's going to take six, seven, eight years for them to get that rejection.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 23:22-23:29
“We haven't passed comprehensive reform to our immigration system since Ronald Reagan was in the White House.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 23:55-24:01
“Every employer I hear from here in Dallas and also across our state is telling me the same thing, which is they want more workers and they…”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 25:27-25:39
“These cartels are responsible for so much of what we are experiencing here in Texas and across the country, both in terms of pushing…”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 26:11-26:23
“It's also destabilizing Mexico itself. And I think we've seen that with the political violence that they've been experiencing around their…”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 27:10-27:20
“Some of the folks I love the most in the world disagree with me on restoring a woman's right to choose here in Texas.”
FULL INTERVIEW U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred | Uploaded July 10, 2024 | 29:21-29:28