HOUSTON – In a tight race for the Texas Senate, the Republican reaches the final stretch Ted Cruz and the democrat Colin Allred.
Rafael Edward Cruz, a 53-year-old lawyer from Houston, has occupied the chair since January 2013 that fellow lawyer and former American football player Colin Zachary Allred is seeking to take from him today. 41 years old, from Dallas and congressman for the 32nd electoral district of Texas since January 2019.
Texas Democrats see possibilities of recovering a seat that they have not held since 1993 against Cruz, who was re-elected in 2018 with a narrow margin of 2.6% over his opponent Beto O’Rourke.
Positions on key issues such as abortion, border security and treatments for transgender youth are some of those that have become the hottest in this Senate election in Texas.
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The attack campaigns between both candidates have been aggressive in seeking to snatch votes.
Cruz has called Allred a radical left-wing extremist and the Democrat has painted his adversary in his advertising as a politician who does not care about the state, who preferred to go to Cancun in moments of crisis during the 2021 winter storm, just to mention some of the accusations.
This election seeks to fill the expiring position of Cruz, who is of Cuban descent.
Cruz, who also sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, has become one of the highest-profile members of Congress and is one of Trump’s greatest allies, accompanying him in his attacks on Democrats for their border and immigration policies.
For his part, Collin Allred, of black descent, the son of a single mother and former professional American football player, is betting on defeating a Republican again at the polls, as happened in 2018 when he defeated Republican Pete Sessions, who occupied the seat in the House of Representatives for District 32 for 16 years.
The final say lies with the 18 million registered voters in the Lone Star State with a population of more than 30 million people.
If you are registered to vote, you can consult the page VoteTexas.gov.
