Colin Allred says Texas Republican Party is seeing an 'internal civil war'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

03/10/24 5:03 PM ET


Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) said he thinks his Senate campaign against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) can achieve victory because the Texas Republican Party is in disarray, and Democrats can pull off an upset in the Lone Star State.

“I actually think that what we’re seeing is an internal civil war in Texas among … [the] Republican Party, and it’s going in the direction of the folks who I don’t think reflect the mass majority of Texans, right?” Allred said Sunday in an MSNBC “The Weekend” interview. “We’re getting away from the George W. Bush’s and the Rick Perry’s and towards this extremely far right.”

Texas GOP leaders purged several incumbents — namely those who had previously defied them — through primary campaign efforts, especially targeting those who backed efforts to impeach state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R). Paxton was accused of using his office for political favors. He was impeached but not convicted.

Allred, who cruised to victory in the Democratic primary last week, has maintained successful fundraising efforts for his race against Cruz. He nearly raised more than Cruz in 2023, but he is still slightly behind the senator, according to Federal Election Commission filings from January. The Dallas congressman predicted that the right-wing shift of Texas Republicans is tearing his opponent’s party apart, and that it could leave an opening for a Democrat to get elected.


Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4522776-colin-allred-says-texas-republican-party-is-seeing-an-internal-civil-war/

[IronLionZion]

1. Republicans in Disarray

[area51]

2. I'd love to see "Fled" Cruz fired by Texans.

[NonPC]

7. Keep Hammering -- What Has Cruz Done for TX in His 11 Years?

Embarrassing to Teddy. No real defense against that message.

[FakeNoose]

3. Wouldn't it be awesome if Texas elected a Democratic Senator this year?

[ananda]

4. Just donated again.

I think he has a shot!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. I hope rather fervently that their "internal war" will send them into the dustbin of history! nt

[Wonder Why]

10. With lots of casualties, bankruptcies and other horrible things.

They deserve it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Damn right they deserve it! nt

[republianmushroom]

6. Hope Colin is correct and he pulls off the victory.

[DoBW]

8. Cruz is in prep

his Colinostopy is coming up

[cstanleytech]

9. Well if Cruz loses he could always take another Cancun cruise to sooth his soul.

Edit: Assuming even has one to sooth in the first place.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. I want you to know, my dear BumRushDaShow, that tonight I have given him a donation!

It will continue monthly for the foreseeable future.

Your thread brought me on board!

Thank you for giving us all hope.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Excellent!

Am hoping he can be the one to expel Carnival Cruise once and for all.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Cancun Cruz should move to Cancun, permanently.

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. Bush, Perry, Dan Patrick are all dunces

Abbott, Paxton and Cruz are much smarter and therefore more dangerous.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. And then there's Cornyn

who seems to skirt around the edges of the loons.

[TxGuitar]

19. It is so weird

During his last campaign- he sounded like a Dem- didn't mention Trump at all and barely a mention of being Rethug. We have noticed that on many of our local/state contests- Republicans are not advertising the fact that they are Rethugs-- now they advertise as "conservative"...... Maybe we really are getting closer to purple!

[BumRushDaShow]

20. That's an old trick

where a candidate won't identify their party in the advertising and will avoid any campaign literature that uses "red" or "blue" print and/or backgrounds, and instead will be done in green or yellow, etc. It forces the voter to really dig or hope any opposition candidate calls them out.

[Kennah]

26. Bush was smart enough to line up the SCOTUS and get elected POTUS

Don't underestimate them

[prodigitalson]

17. George W. Bush was the last real governor Texas had as far as actually giving a shit about governing

notice I didn't say the last good one, that was Ann Richards. But starting with Rick Perry and continuing through Abbott, it has just been who can be the craziest crook that ever crooked.

[Aristus]

21. We really have decided to rehabilitate GWB's image, haven't we?

I guess we got so snockered by Bush's schoolboy crush on Michelle Obama, we forgot what an utter shit he was, and likely still is.

I don't know that he was ever interested in governing beyond bearing the title.

People who knew him best during his tenure in Austin said he would come in to the office, play video games for a few hours, and then go home.

And time was, we recognized GWB as far-right. Just because subsequent developments in the GOP have flung the party in Nazi territory doesn't mean GWB wasn't far-right all along.

[prodigitalson]

28. the view that W was a better governor than Perry or Abbot is hardly radical or revisionist

if you think they were better you are certainly entitled to that opinion

I don't share it

[SARose]

18. Texas Republican Party is dying

Covid deaths in this State are approaching the population of Waco, Tx. Sadly, most were over 65 and conservative. Texas Republicans cannot recruit enough young folks to replace them. Touched a nerve with Cornyn with an email I sent him.

Texans and visitors - I challenge you to leave the interstate highways and drive the Ranch Roads and Farm-to-Market roads. Our small towns are dying. There are Texans living in towns that lack schools, grocery stores, gas stations, etc. Some pregnant women in Texas drive 70 miles or more to give birth. Poverty is high. Most of these towns are majority over 65 and mostly widows. They encouraged their children to get an education and sent them to Tech, A&M, Baylor and they never returned. So, so sad.

Abbott spent or pledged 6 billion dollars on Operation Lone Star.

[NanaCat]

22. Rural/Small town Texas is so red, they're almost neon.

That means most of the people living in those places with no schools, gas stations, grocery stores, local hospitals and so on voted to have no access to modern amenities--nay, what are basic amenities in the blue cities they sneer at and deride. Maybe if they'd cared less about their guns, churches and hate, and more about their community, their towns wouldn't be dying now.

I feel sorry for the kids stuck in those go-nowhere places who will never have a chance at a decent life if their communities become so isolated and broke that the kids can't even afford to leave anymore. But I don't feel sorry for any of the adults who voted for their own destruction because they were too full of hate to remember what matters.

They're getting exactly what they voted for, and thus what they deserve.

[SARose]

23. Wow

I have kin living in these small towns. Do you? Do you live in Texas?

If not, why bless your heart.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. You made me think of the movie "Midnight Cowboy"

Small town TX dishwasher who leaves for the "big city" - New York - to make a name for himself.

(sorry for the RW loon Voight reference but... )

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. The former GOP county chair/state rep in my county lost a primary because he support Paxton's impeachment

Paxton is targeting people who voted to impeach him and Abbott is targeting people who did not vote for his voucher scam. This will be fun to watch

[hamsterjill]

27. I sincerely hope that Allred can oust Cruz.

But as a sixth generation Texan, I don’t see it happening. Would love to be happily surprised. Oh, please!!!

But in my circle of Republicans (I.e., those I have to work with because I don’t have any friends that are Republican - by my choice), they all love Cruz and think he hung the moon.

Yes. I work with idiots. It’s just that there are a lot of them down here.