Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. On a recent appearance on MSNBC, U.S. Rep. Colin Allred was asked how Vice President Kamala Harris’ presumptive rise to the top of the party’s ticket was affecting his campaign in Texas to unseat U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who is facing off against Allred in his reelection campaign, has worked to tie Allred to Harris’ political record.
Harris’s impending nomination has injected the November election with renewed enthusiasm among Democrats, who are hoping the historic nature of her candidacy as a woman of color could also boost down-ballot candidates. But in Republican-dominated Texas, Allred — who has been running his campaign as a centrist — is not flocking to her side.
“ Can’t Comment Colin hiding from Border Czar Harris?” the Cruz campaign said in a statement, using a moniker the campaign has used to attack Allred. “Allred has had no issue being a rubber stamp for Kamala's disastrous open border policies for the past three years, but now he won't even be seen with her and Joe Biden in public. Why the sudden change of heart?”
As a state candidate, Allred’s game plan was always to run ahead of the presidential nominee and Biden’s flagging numbers worried some Democrats, said Matt Angle, director of Lone Star Project a Democratic communications and research PAC. With Harris’ “reinvigoration” of the Democratic party, Angle said he expects her to get more than Biden’s 47% share of the Texas vote in 2020.
“There’ll be a lot of questions to figure out and they still have a lot of days to figure out their support for each other,” Owens said. That kind of campaign may have less pizzazz than Beto O’Rourke’s 2018 campaign against Cruz, which he lost by less than 3 percentage points, Angle said, but it will keep the Democratic base with him while not alienating other parts of the coalition that Allred needs to win.
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