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Colin Allred: “We can't afford six more years of Ted Cruz in the United…”

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

Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview

Published August 23, 2022 | Video Starts at 01:44

But not everyone decides to actually throw their hat in the ring. Yeah, that's right. Well, I felt very strongly that We can't afford six more years of Ted Cruz in the United States Senate representing us and I think not representing us. And I feel similarly to the way I did when I ran in 2018 against a 22 year incumbent, as you said, somebody who had been unopposed in the previous … (01:44–01:52)

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Asserts that Ted Cruz does not adequately represent Texas in the Senate.

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Colin Allred

“I was in the Capitol on January 6th when the mob was trying to break in.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 04:41-04:47
“Senator Cruz objected to [the certification of the 2020 election] results.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 04:50-04:55
“We came very close that day to losing our democracy, much closer than I think we still even have kind of fully wrangled with as a country.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 06:13-06:21
“Ted Cruz played a role in [the January 6th insurrection], and we're seeing him play a continuing role, I think, undermining faith in our…”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 06:22-06:30
“Beto lost by two and a half points because it showed how many folks were ready to move on from Ted Cruz.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 07:23-07:30
“We had nine and a half million Texans who didn't vote in the last election who could have.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 08:15-08:20
“Historically, the filibuster was used rarely and was largely used to block civil rights legislation, anti-lynching legislation.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 12:07-12:17
“Every single bill now has to have a 60 vote threshold which has just not been the case outside the last 20 or 30 years.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 12:43-12:50
“We're packing everything we can into budget bills because those are subject to only a 50 vote threshold.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 13:08-13:15
“We've already drawn exclusions to the filibuster on judicial nominations, on budget bills, on cabinet nominations.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 13:22-13:30
“Filibuster reform can allow us to have more bipartisan legislation in the Senate.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 14:15-14:20
“Voting rights legislation or something like that shouldn't be subjected to the 60 vote threshold.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 14:56-15:00
“County resources, municipal resources, charitable resources being stretched to the maximum in these border communities.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 16:53-17:01
“The governor is doing, I think, is not helping at all. And it's crossed over into barbarity.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 17:00-17:07
“We have to, I think, for the first time, as you said, since the Reagan era, come to some kind of agreement on a bipartisan immigration…”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 17:18-17:26
“Congresswoman Veronica Escobar from El Paso has some legislation, the Dignity act, that I think is a really great bipartisan starter for us.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 17:45-17:56
“Our Border Patrol agents are being asked to do things that are not within really the scope of what they normally would be doing.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 18:14-18:21
“The wait time for [asylum claims] is unacceptable.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 18:34-18:38
“Employers want to do something about [undocumented immigrants].”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 19:00-19:02
“We need to make sure our immigration system better meets [the needs of our economy].”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 19:31-19:35
“It's not going to happen when we have folks in office like Ted Cruz who use this as a political wedge issue.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 19:39-19:47
“I'll give credit to Senator Cornyn. I think he wants to find a way forward on bipartisan immigration reform.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 19:49-19:56
“Millions of Venezuelans have fled, and we're seeing a lot of them showing up at our border.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 21:00-21:06
“Haiti is in collapse. We're seeing a lot of Haitians showing up at our border in El Paso.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 21:06-21:11
“In the Trump administration, when President Trump cut aid to the Northern Triangle countries... it was actually shooting yourself in the…”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 21:52-22:04
“Most of the migrants that I've spoken to... would prefer to stay where they're from, but they felt they had to leave.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 22:11-22:20
“We passed some gun violence prevention at the federal level that Senator Cornyn helped lead in the Senate and that I was a part of in the…”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 25:27-25:37
“There are common sense steps from universal background checks, red flag laws, raising the age and safe storage that have the support of the…”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 26:37-26:54
“I've been named the most bipartisan member of the Texas congressional delegation.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 28:09-28:15
“Without putting a single American boot on the ground or without putting any Americans in any danger, we have equipped the Ukrainians to…”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 30:35-30:49
“The predictions were that within three or four days, the Russian tanks would roll into Kyiv.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 31:32-31:38
“Here we are, you know, over a year and a half later, and they [Ukrainians] are actually pushing them [Russians] out of their country.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 31:45-31:57
“The only time [NATO's Article 5] has ever been triggered was when they supported us in Afghanistan when we were attacked on 9/11.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 33:54-34:00
“Vladimir Putin would not stop in Ukraine. He wants to reconstitute the Soviet Union, which includes several NATO states.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 34:00-34:08
“Unfortunately, I think we have to say right now [the greatest threat to American democracy] is internal.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 34:28-34:28
“For the first time in our history, we didn't have a peaceful transfer of power.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 35:10-35:14
“President George W. Bush, a Republican, signed into law the reauthorization and the extension of the Voting Rights Act after it had passed…”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 36:55-37:08
“I don't think we'd have any chance of passing something like the Voting Rights Act right now with Republican votes or Republican president.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 37:12-37:19
“The Inflation Reduction Act, which despite its name, was actually the biggest climate bill in modern American history.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 38:52-38:59
“The estimates are that it's going to help us reduce our emissions by 30% by 2030.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 38:58-39:03
“In my district, there's a company called Canadian Solar that's building a solar panel manufacturing plant in Mesquite. And it's a $250…”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 39:07-39:22
“We're the number one wind energy state in the country. We're number two in solar.”
Puro Politics 258. The Colin Allred Interview | Uploaded August 23, 2022 | 39:56-40:01