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Colin Allred: “Senator Cruz...is the most extreme senator in the United…”

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

The Texas Debate 2024 (Full)_ Ted Cruz and Colin Allred make cases to represent Texas in U.S. Senate

Published October 15, 2024 | Video Starts at 01:40

In that time, I've been the most bipartisan Texan in Congress. I'm the exact opposite of Senator Cruz...is the most extreme senator in the United States Senate, maybe the most extreme in the last 30 years. But that's not enough. He's also only focused on himself. That's how you can go to Cancun when millions of Texans need you and hundreds are dying. (01:40–02:19)

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Asserts that Ted Cruz is the most extreme senator in the U.S. Senate, possibly in the last 30 years.

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Colin Allred

“I've been the most bipartisan Texan in Congress.”
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“26,000 Texas women [have] been forced to give birth to their rapist child under this law.”
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“When I'm in the United States Senate. We'll restore a woman's right to choose. We'll make Roe v. Wade the law of the land again.”
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“I support the protections and the restrictions under Roe.”
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“Our maternal mortality rate has skyrocketed up by 56%.”
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“When the toughest border security bill in a generation came up in the United States Senate, $20 billion for border security. He said, we…”
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“I believe in physical barriers as part of a comprehensive strategy to secure the border.”
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“We had a bill for $20 billion for 1,000 new Border Patrol agents, for more immigration judges, more asylum officers to help us deal with the…”
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“The $20 billion for 1,000 new Border Patrol agents, for 100 new immigration judges, for 4,000 asylum personnel to help us have technology to…”
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“We thought it was a good idea to cap the cost of insulin for folks on Medicare at $35 a month.”
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“Senator Cruz apparently disagreed. We tried to cap it for everyone because 1 in 4 Americans are rationing their insulin.”
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“He's also one of the biggest recipients of campaign donations from big pharma lobbyists in the entire United States Senate.”
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“It's indefensible that we have Texas women being turned away from hospitals, bleeding out in their cars.”
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“He's been one of the least productive senators in the entire country.”
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“When I'm your senator, I'll keep focused on the issues that matter to you, on lowering your costs, on securing the border, on restoring a…”
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“I don't support boys playing girls sports.”
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“The Equality act, which was a bipartisan vote in the Congress, was endorsed by the US Chamber of Commerce.”
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“The US Chamber of Commerce...gave me an award, the Jefferson Hamilton Award, for my bipartisanship.”
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“I was on the House floor when we went through the votes [on January 6].”
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“After he'd gone around the country lying about the election, after he'd been the architect of the attempt to overthrow that election, when…”
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“Liz Cheney has endorsed me as it got involved in this campaign and is saying to Texans everywhere, do not put Ted Cruz back in a position of…”
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“October 7th was a horrific terrorist attack by a terrorist organization in Hamas, the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust.”
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“I'm on the Foreign Affairs Committee. I've been on it for the last six years.”
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“There was a vote in the United States Congress to provide aid to Israel, to provide aid to Ukraine, to Taiwan, to help with the humanitarian…”
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“Ted Cruz voted against [the aid package for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan, and Gaza].”
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“We had a vote in the United States Congress to provide military funding and aid to Israel, to Ukraine, to Taiwan, to address humanitarian…”
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“Part of that aid package was $5 billion in. In the interceptors that were used in the Iron Dome to prevent the Iranian rockets that just…”
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“I think there was only 18 senators who voted against it, and Ted Cruz was one of them.”
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“Hamas is a terrorist organization that hides amongst the civilian populace.”
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“They put their tunnels beneath playgrounds, beneath elementary schools.”
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“What we have had to keep our focus on is trying to provide as much aid as possible to innocent civilians in Gaza.”
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“The child tax credit helped lift millions of Texas kids out of food insecurity.”
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“Senator Cruz opposed [the extension of the child tax credit].”
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“I'll bring back the child tax credit.”
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“I'll also make sure that we cut Taxes for the middle class.”
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“We’re going to invest in a new generation of housing to increase our housing supply and lower the overall cost of housing.”
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“I opposed Joe Biden's pause on LNG exports.”
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“You can go read the op ed that I wrote in the Houston Chronicle opposing [the pause on LNG exports].”
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“I will be a defender of the Texas energy economy.”
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“I was named by an outside group, the most bipartisan Texan in Congress.”
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“IVF didn't need protecting until [Senator Cruz] got his way of going after it.”
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“When he ran For President in 2016, he supported the Personhood Amendment.”
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“That would make something like IVF illegal, but also ban certain forms of birth control.”
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“Over 70% of the bills that I've co-sponsored over six years have been bipartisan.”
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“There's a bill to bring $35 billion to Texas over five years. The bipartisan infrastructure law Mitch McConnell voted for it. I voted for…”
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“When you have an Investment in infrastructure, like $35 billion that Texas is getting. That's happening because. Because I voted for it in…”
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“When it comes to the Chips and Science act, which was a good idea that I was a part of passing in the House, that John Cornyn was helping to…”
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“If you give me the chance to be your United States Senator, I'll never abandon you.”
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