Exclusive: Representative Colin Allred, the Democratic candidate for the Texas Senate, is facing a six-figure ad campaign over past comments in which he called the southern border wall “racist.”
Truth and Courage PAC, which is campaigning for Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s re-election this November, launches a campaign over Allred’s efforts to “undermine” border security. are doing.
“Colin Allred has consistently fought to undermine U.S. border security, turn Texas into a sanctuary state, and make our communities less safe,” said Truth and Courage spokesperson Jarrod.・Griffin told FOX News Digital. “He is so anxious to keep America’s borders wide open that he is even willing to tear down the border wall.”
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Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, arrives at the U.S. Capitol for the final vote of the week on Thursday, April 20, 2023. (Tom Williams)
“No matter how hard he tries to hide his radical background, his promise to destroy America’s border security and the years he spent fighting for dangerous open border policies speak for themselves. “We’re working hard,” Griffin said.
Allred said he wants to “surge resources” to support the Border Patrol. However, he has consistently opposed efforts to ban sanctuary cities, supported a path to citizenship for the millions of illegal immigrants living in the United States, and opposed multiple bills aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration. I’ve been doing it.
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Democratic Texas Representative Colin Allred (left) and Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz (right). (Getty Images)
In 2018, he called the border wall “racist” Current advertising campaign.
“I’m telling you, if they’re going to build a racist wall, it’s my generation that’s going to tear it down,” Allred said at the time. “We have no intention of building a wall in this country.”
Allred responded to Truth and Courage PAC’s ad buy in a statement to Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
“Our immigration system is broken, and to fix it we must secure our borders, surge resources to Border Patrol and border communities, create a path to citizenship for Dreamers, and meet our economic needs.” We need real solutions to reform the system to better meet the needs of people,” Allred said. “Given an opportunity to actually do something, Ted Cruz politicized a bipartisan border security bill supported by the Border Security Coalition.”
In 2019, Allred spoke at the Resource Center’s Champions for Change event. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
Allred launched his Senate campaign last May, heavily criticizing his primary Democratic opponent. He recently defeated a number of challengers to run against Mr. Cruz in the general election.
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Given that the border and illegal immigration are among the issues of greatest concern to voters in the Lone Star State, which continues to bear the brunt of the worsening immigration crisis under the Biden administration, Allred and Cruz’s The showdown in the general election is likely to pose a more formidable challenge. management.
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