Despite his epic loss to Sen. Ted Cruz (R) only eight months ago, former NFL player Colin Allred has decided to make another run for the U.S. Senate.
Allred is looking to challenge for the seat of Republican Sen. John Cornyn, who is facing his own challenge from within the Republican Party from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Allred announced his return with a campaign video released Tuesday, in which he took shots at both Cornyn and Paxton, describing them as “too corrupt to care about us and too weak to fight for us.”
A former NFL linebacker and attorney, Allred retold the story of how he went undrafted in the NFL but eventually turned pro and bought his mom a house.
“The truth is you shouldn’t have to have a son in the NFL to own a home,” Allred said.
“Everything is backwards,” he continued. “Folks who play by the rules and keep the faith just can’t seem to get ahead. But the folks who cut corners and cut deals — well, they’re doing just fine.”
Chris Gustafson, communications director at Senate Leadership Fund, the top super PAC supporting Senate Republicans, released a statement regarding Allred’s entrance into the race in Texas.
“Colin Allred is an out of touch Washington, DC liberal who supported Joe Biden’s open borders, biological men competing against our daughters, and even said it would be ‘better’ if the Second Amendment had never been written,” Gustafson said in the statement. “Texas voters have already rejected Allred for the radical liberal he is, and they’ll do it again next fall.”
Allred’s announcement comes just eight months after he lost by nearly 9 percentage points to Cruz. That race was one of the most expensive in the country last cycle, with Democrats spending more than $130 million trying to unseat Cruz. (RELATED: Democrats Spend Nearly Half A Billion On Losing Senate Races In 2024)
Allred can expect a crowded field for the seat. Former astronaut Terry Virts also entered the U.S. Senate race as a Democrat candidate.
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who narrowly lost to Cruz in 2018 and later unsuccessfully ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and was defeated by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in the 2022 Texas gubernatorial election, is reportedly mulling another Senate run next year.
Also expressing interest is Democrat Rep. Joaquin Castro, who for over a decade has represented a congressional district in and around San Antonio.
In the race for the Republican Senate nomination, three-term Rep. Wesley Hunt, a rising MAGA star who represents a Houston area district, is also mulling a Senate run. Sources confirmed to Fox News earlier this year that Hunt had made his case to President Donald Trump’s political team.
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If someone can find out who greased the skids to get him into law school and pushed his prior campaigns, that will determine what he is really all about and who is pulling his strings, and why. His entire schtick against Cruz centered around the Cancun issue which was totally blown out of proportion. he never made any substantiative plans to implement any of his pie in the sky promises and will likely do the same this time.