Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez entered the state’s US Senate race, becoming the second high-profile Democrat vying to take on Republican Sen. Ted Cruz next fall.
Gutierrez, a long-time state lawmaker from San Antonio, represents a district that includes Uvalde, where a gunman killed 19 elementary school students and two teachers last year, and he referenced the shooting in his announcement. “I’m running for the U.S. Senate to fight back against the systems that have left so many Texans behind. Ted Cruz abandoned Texas long before he left us to die in the winter storm.
Pete Sessions from a blue-trending Dallas-area district. The redistricting process after the 2020 census gave Allred a much safer seat, while Sessions has since returned to Congress representing a different district, anchored in Waco. Democrats hope Cruz will prove vulnerable again after former US Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s closer-than-expected challenge in 2018, when Cruz won by less than 3 points after O’Rourke shattered Senate campaign fundraising records.
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