Colin Allred, running the two minute offense

[Covri 6253]

Maybe he and the Democratic Party in Texas are going to give it a real try after all.
 

https://archive.is/i8h5H

 

Spoiler

U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, Texas Democrats to pool resources, volunteers

Why is Election Day in November? Find out before the 2024 presidential election.

There's a lot to keep track of ahead of the 2024 presidential election, but when you vote stays the same. Here's why Election Day falls in November. 

U.S. Rep. Colin Allred is plowing ahead in his battle to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz by launching a coordinated grassroots effort to share volunteers with the Texas Democratic Party for events, rallies, phone banks and voter registration.

The partnership with the state party would be the first of its kind in more than 20 years, according to Allred's campaign, which announced the collaboration Wednesday. It would allow party officials and Allred's camp to consolidate resources, potentially helping them avoid duplicating efforts on voter outreach.

Allred, a former civil rights attorney and current third-term congressman from Dallas, will officially kick off the effort with a rally Sunday in Houston. He will be joined by his wife, Alexandra Eber; former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner; Harris County Commissioners Rodney Ellis and Adrian Garcia; and Amanda Zurawski, the lead plaintiff in Zurawski v. Texas, a state Supreme Court case that sought to challenge Texas' near-total abortion ban.

The name of the new endeavor, "Texas Offense," is a nod to Allred's football career. He was a linebacker at Baylor University in Waco and had a brief stint in the NFL.

“Throughout my football career at Baylor and the NFL, I’ve always played defense. But now, along with Texans from all across our state, we are fully on offense to beat Ted Cruz,” Allred said in a news release Wednesday. “Our grassroots campaign of Texans is ready to win because we cannot afford six more years of Ted Cruz.”

State and federal campaign finance laws prevent federal candidates from directly sharing funds with state candidates, and vice versa, said Jon Taylor, a political science professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. But an effort like this could allow campaigns to pool voter data into a single database.

"Every campaign is going to have to raise money, but, at the same time, the money you're spending on your campaign can be used in terms of purchasing, say, registration information and software, that can be shared," Taylor said.

Allred's Texas Offense plan could allow him to make use of his massive war chest — he has raised more than $38 million since he announced his campaign last year — to benefit fellow Democratic candidates up and down the ticket.

"This is something that should have been happening in this state for at least the last 20-plus years, given the state's size and its burgeoning Democratic constituencies," Taylor told the American-Statesman in a phone interview Wednesday. "But let's see how this thing actually rolls out and see how much money they're actually going to have to do this."

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Allred's Wednesday announcement gives heft to Cruz's recent warnings — both in campaign donation solicitations and at the Republican National Convention — that his race is closer than polls might show it to be.

“It’s easy to be complacent," Cruz said, addressing the GOP convention crowd in Milwaukee on July 17. "One of the real mistakes people make in politics is they have a recency bias. They say, 'Well, whatever things have been recently, that’s what it’s going to be forever.'”

A Cruz campaign spokesperson, however, said Allred and Democrats are flailing and will continue to do so despite the Texas Offense launch.

“With a little over 100 days until Election Day, there is no question that Colin Allred’s last-ditch effort to campaign will fall short," Cruz's spokesperson told the Statesman. "It doesn’t matter how hard they try, the Texas Democrats fall flat on their face every electoral cycle, and this time will be no different.”

Taylor noted a similar approach has been taken in other states, including Pennsylvania, where Democrats are defending the seat of U.S. Sen. Bob Casey from a GOP challenge. He also said that it is standard practice in countries like England and Canada.

"This state's party needs to look at the best practices that were created in highly successful Democratic states," Taylor said. "That's where Texas Democrats have fallen down over the years."

Abortion in Texas

Allred's campaign began disseminating its first digital ads on abortion Wednesday. The 15- and 30-second videos, which will run statewide, feature two Texas OB-GYNs pinning responsibility for the state's near-total abortion ban on Cruz.

Text in the ad labels House Bill 1280, the Texas law that made administering an abortion a felony, as "TED CRUZ'S ABORTION BAN". While Cruz praised the U.S. Supreme Court for overturning the federal right to an abortion established in Roe v. Wade, saying it "will save the lives of millions of innocent babies," he is part of the U.S. Senate, not the Texas Legislature, and as such, he had no ability to vote for or against Texas' laws on abortion. 

Cruz in 2021 sponsored a bill in Congress that would have prohibited abortion nationwide after 20 weeks of pregnancy, except in cases of rape or risk of death. 

 

 

Edited September 2 by Covri

[F250 28818]

If waiting until midnight on the day you begin writing your essay that is due at 10 AM is considered a four minute offense, I guess he is running a four minute offense.

[Covri 6253]

26 minutes ago, F250 said:

If waiting until midnight on the day you begin writing your essay that is due at 10 AM is considered a four minute offense, I guess he is running a four minute offense.

Well it is technically four months to Election Day, but I’m open to thread title changes. I was thinking four minute, two minute, hail mary football adjustments followed by 

Spoiler

 

 

[TexasEd 8077]

I’m seeing anti-Cruz adds on streaming TV services.  No mention of Allred but at least calling out Ted.

[Covri 6253]

It’s a senate race in Texas and his only mention is in the Ted Cruz thread. Lots of failure talk, and I’m guilty of it too, but if those voting Democratic Party and are enthused by Harris they need to at least give a fuck about this race.  Cruz is so unlikeable that many people just want to rally around anyone else. Same as trump.

[Dahobbs 17681]

Well, he had trash his entire strategy of running against Biden. 

[TexArcher 38066]

43 minutes ago, F250 said:

If waiting until midnight on the day you begin writing your essay that is due at 10 AM is considered a four minute offense, I guess he is running a four minute offense.

Hey, C's get degrees, buddy.  Plus, 6th St used to not suck at all.

[F250 28818]

2 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Hey, C's get degrees, buddy.  Plus, 6th St used to not suck at all.

They do but Allred is all about D's.

[Pancho 44995]

10 minutes ago, F250 said:

They do but Allred is all about D's.

[F250 28818]

7 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Allred has propagated the Mexican invasion myth and the idea that Mexicans are a problem.

He can suck my Mexican dick!!!

[chainsaw 9873]

8 hours ago, F250 said:

Allred has propagated the Mexican invasion myth and the idea that Mexicans are a problem.

He can suck my Mexican dick!!!

He's probably banking on high turnout for the general and the fact that Cruz is worse

[Js1 85574]

9 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

Well, he had trash his entire strategy of running against Biden. 

This is true. If anything, MVP has injected a lot of energy into down ballot races. I’m curious to see how her being the top of the ticket will affect Texas and FL senate races.

Maybe Allred will finally run on something of substance of just trying to run the weird black moderate Republican playbook 

[Covri 6253]

42 minutes ago, Js1 said:

This is true. If anything, MVP has injected a lot of energy into down ballot races. I’m curious to see how her being the top of the ticket will affect Texas and FL senate races.

Maybe Allred will finally run on something of substance of just trying to run the weird black moderate Republican playbook 

Commercial that aired during the us men’s basketball game was a moderate black republican ad for sure 

[Bozo_Casanova 26553]

13 hours ago, Covri said:

Maybe he and the Democratic Party in Texas are going to give it a real try after all.
 

https://archive.is/i8h5H

 

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U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, Texas Democrats to pool resources, volunteers

Why is Election Day in November? Find out before the 2024 presidential election.

There's a lot to keep track of ahead of the 2024 presidential election, but when you vote stays the same. Here's why Election Day falls in November. 

U.S. Rep. Colin Allred is plowing ahead in his battle to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz by launching a coordinated grassroots effort to share volunteers with the Texas Democratic Party for events, rallies, phone banks and voter registration.

The partnership with the state party would be the first of its kind in more than 20 years, according to Allred's campaign, which announced the collaboration Wednesday. It would allow party officials and Allred's camp to consolidate resources, potentially helping them avoid duplicating efforts on voter outreach.

Allred, a former civil rights attorney and current third-term congressman from Dallas, will officially kick off the effort with a rally Sunday in Houston. He will be joined by his wife, Alexandra Eber; former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner; Harris County Commissioners Rodney Ellis and Adrian Garcia; and Amanda Zurawski, the lead plaintiff in Zurawski v. Texas, a state Supreme Court case that sought to challenge Texas' near-total abortion ban.

The name of the new endeavor, "Texas Offense," is a nod to Allred's football career. He was a linebacker at Baylor University in Waco and had a brief stint in the NFL.

“Throughout my football career at Baylor and the NFL, I’ve always played defense. But now, along with Texans from all across our state, we are fully on offense to beat Ted Cruz,” Allred said in a news release Wednesday. “Our grassroots campaign of Texans is ready to win because we cannot afford six more years of Ted Cruz.”

State and federal campaign finance laws prevent federal candidates from directly sharing funds with state candidates, and vice versa, said Jon Taylor, a political science professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. But an effort like this could allow campaigns to pool voter data into a single database.

"Every campaign is going to have to raise money, but, at the same time, the money you're spending on your campaign can be used in terms of purchasing, say, registration information and software, that can be shared," Taylor said.

Allred's Texas Offense plan could allow him to make use of his massive war chest — he has raised more than $38 million since he announced his campaign last year — to benefit fellow Democratic candidates up and down the ticket.

"This is something that should have been happening in this state for at least the last 20-plus years, given the state's size and its burgeoning Democratic constituencies," Taylor told the American-Statesman in a phone interview Wednesday. "But let's see how this thing actually rolls out and see how much money they're actually going to have to do this."

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Allred's Wednesday announcement gives heft to Cruz's recent warnings — both in campaign donation solicitations and at the Republican National Convention — that his race is closer than polls might show it to be.

“It’s easy to be complacent," Cruz said, addressing the GOP convention crowd in Milwaukee on July 17. "One of the real mistakes people make in politics is they have a recency bias. They say, 'Well, whatever things have been recently, that’s what it’s going to be forever.'”

A Cruz campaign spokesperson, however, said Allred and Democrats are flailing and will continue to do so despite the Texas Offense launch.

“With a little over 100 days until Election Day, there is no question that Colin Allred’s last-ditch effort to campaign will fall short," Cruz's spokesperson told the Statesman. "It doesn’t matter how hard they try, the Texas Democrats fall flat on their face every electoral cycle, and this time will be no different.”

Taylor noted a similar approach has been taken in other states, including Pennsylvania, where Democrats are defending the seat of U.S. Sen. Bob Casey from a GOP challenge. He also said that it is standard practice in countries like England and Canada.

"This state's party needs to look at the best practices that were created in highly successful Democratic states," Taylor said. "That's where Texas Democrats have fallen down over the years."

Abortion in Texas

Allred's campaign began disseminating its first digital ads on abortion Wednesday. The 15- and 30-second videos, which will run statewide, feature two Texas OB-GYNs pinning responsibility for the state's near-total abortion ban on Cruz.

Text in the ad labels House Bill 1280, the Texas law that made administering an abortion a felony, as "TED CRUZ'S ABORTION BAN". While Cruz praised the U.S. Supreme Court for overturning the federal right to an abortion established in Roe v. Wade, saying it "will save the lives of millions of innocent babies," he is part of the U.S. Senate, not the Texas Legislature, and as such, he had no ability to vote for or against Texas' laws on abortion. 

Cruz in 2021 sponsored a bill in Congress that would have prohibited abortion nationwide after 20 weeks of pregnancy, except in cases of rape or risk of death. 

 

 

This is like Kwame Brown joining the Washington Generals

[atomheartbevo 89795]

2 hours ago, Covri said:

Commercial that aired during the us men’s basketball game was a moderate black republican ad for sure 

The border patrol one?

[Longhorn_Fan68 33899]

he's so uninspiring. hopefully, though, he gets swept up in the Kamala wave and the undertow take him to a win. I lowkey have faith Texas might finally flip. 

[Bama Llama 1450]

If I were registered to vote in Texas, I’d back this guy over Ted Cruz.  He checks all the boxes that matter.

Species -✅

Color - ✅

Common sense - ✅

Loyalty -✅

Party affiliation- Don’t care

[Satchel 6949]

I’m a financial supporter but, I think it’s a potentially fatal mistake to focus mostly on likely voters and not try to energize new voters. Texas is not red. It just has a nasty habit of voting red.

[Bozo_Casanova 26553]

28 minutes ago, Bama Llama said:

If I were registered to vote in Texas, I’d back this guy over Ted Cruz.  He checks all the boxes that matter.

Species -✅

Color - ✅

Common sense - ✅

Loyalty -✅

Party affiliation- Don’t care

Would win in a landslide

[Bozo_Casanova 26553]

14 minutes ago, Satchel said:

I’m a financial supporter but, I think it’s a potentially fatal mistake to focus mostly on likely voters and not try to energize new voters. Texas is not red. It just has a nasty habit of voting red.

Is he doing that? I don't see evidence that he's doing anything at all. Truly I have no idea what he's spending money on because I see no evidence of a campaign other than 3-5 text messages and emails per day begging for money. 

I do know that a major donor felt slighted by his office, though. 

Edited July 28 by Bozo_Casanova

[Pancho 44995]

13 hours ago, F250 said:

Allred has propagated the Mexican invasion myth and the idea that Mexicans are a problem.

He can suck my Mexican dick!!!

Well that and he sends too many texts.

My parents (who I use as a barometer) aren’t too high on him; however, their enthusiasm for Kamala eventually leads them to talking to others abut Colin. They were more enthused about Beto. 

[Covri 6253]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

The border patrol one?

 

[Bozo_Casanova 26553]

4 minutes ago, Covri said:

 

Hear that everybody? In 2024 Colin Allred would like you to know that he is not a fighter, credits Repubicans for lower drug costs and border solutions, and also puts creamy HEB house brand peanut butter on white bread. 

 

Edited July 28 by Bozo_Casanova

[Satchel 6949]

18 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Is he doing that? I don't see evidence that he's doing anything at all. Truly I have no idea what he's spending money on because I see no evidence of a campaign other than 3-5 text messages and emails per day begging for money. 

I do know that a major donor felt slighted by his office, though. 

Democrats generally, and particularly in Texas, worry too much about what people who are not likely to vote for them think about them. Black politicians are obsessed with appearing to everybody’s mayor, senator or president in ways that their white counterparts have no such constraints. It’s one of the things that frustrated me about Obama and excited me about Biden. Colin seems to be even more cautious and it’ has hampered his effectiveness. That said, there’s something to be said about a serious, sober politicians who has skills other than the ability to glad hand, and entertain.

[Chopper 17245]

What a dipshit. Flipped positions on crypto and now wants to help terrorists and money launderers, as well as waste energy. 

1. 

2. 

[TexPx 2324]

If I were registered to vote in Texas, I’d back this guy over Ted Cruz.  He checks all the boxes that matter.

Species -
Color -
Common sense -
Loyalty -
Party affiliation- Don’t care

What would happen if left alone with a couch?

[TexPx 2324]

Allred seems like he might get elected then switch parties. Like Eric Johnson.

[Satchel 6949]

27 minutes ago, TexPx said:

Allred seems like he might get elected then switch parties. Like Eric Johnson.

Nah, his vibe is more cautious than biscuit.

[randomhorn 1798]

I keep forgetting that he’s running 

[Dahobbs 17681]

1 minute ago, randomhorn said:

I keep forgetting that he’s running 

He doesn't appear to know about it himself. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19224]

4 minutes ago, randomhorn said:

I keep forgetting that he’s running 

Who?

[StassneyHorn 6637]

So has he spent any serious money yet? If I wanted to think about this race in nicest terms it seemed like he wanted to make it out of summer undamaged, with most his money, and 100 days to make an argument when people are finally tuning in.

[ChuckNorrisActionJeans 2682]

29 minutes ago, Satchel said:

Nah, his vibe is more cautious than biscuit.

Serious question: as a cracker, can I use the term butter biscuit? I confess it makes me deeply uncomfortable 🤫

[RPM 26354]

16 hours ago, Covri said:

Well it is technically four months to Election Day,

This. Allred is wise to sit on his campaign money until now. The voting common clay of the Great Southwest have a short attention span.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33899]

42 minutes ago, randomhorn said:

I keep forgetting that he’s running 

you obviously are not on their text list

Edited July 28 by Longhorn_Fan68

[Sawbonz 27588]

4 hours ago, Bama Llama said:

If I were registered to vote in Texas, I’d back this guy over Ted Cruz.  He checks all the boxes that matter.

Species -✅

Color - ✅

Common sense - ✅

Loyalty -✅

Party affiliation- Don’t care

I’d back a pile of this guy’s shit over Cruz

[Pescado_Rojo 19428]

Don't blame me, I voted for Roland Gutierrez 

[Pato del Muerto 52598]

4 hours ago, Bama Llama said:

If I were registered to vote in Texas, I’d back this guy over Ted Cruz.  He checks all the boxes that matter.

Species -✅

Color - ✅

Common sense - ✅

Loyalty -✅

Party affiliation- Don’t care

 

3 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Would win in a landslide

You’d think, but he lost bigly when head to head with noem. 

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

I opened one of his sad emails the other day for the first time.  
 

“I’ve got bad news.  We’re $809k short of out $1mm fundraising goal…”.  I’ve also got bad news.  I’m one supermodel short of dating one supermodel.  
 

It was embarrassing and demotivating at the same time.  How is this a strategy.  

[royiv 9355]

1 hour ago, TexPx said:

Allred seems like he might get elected then switch parties. Like Eric Johnson.

Crazy. I just told my wife the same thing less than 30 minutes ago.

[atomheartbevo 89795]

3 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Is he doing that? I don't see evidence that he's doing anything at all. Truly I have no idea what he's spending money on because I see no evidence of a campaign other than 3-5 text messages and emails per day begging for money. 

55 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

So has he spent any serious money yet? If I wanted to think about this race in nicest terms it seemed like he wanted to make it out of summer undamaged, with most his money, and 100 days to make an argument when people are finally tuning in.

I see his ads on YouTube 2-3 times a night, sometimes more, and it's been that way for weeks.

YouTube ads may not be cheap (these are the longer ones), but they are probably cheaper than broadcast or cable TV ads, and if you are signed in to Google, they are obviously highly targeted. I skip them though, as most people probably do, and not just because I've seen them - they feel like he's running for a local city council or something.

[Satchel 6949]

1 hour ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

Serious question: as a cracker, can I use the term butter biscuit? I confess it makes me deeply uncomfortable 🤫

Lol, I don’t see why not. White people have a historical role in the tradition of the butter biscuit. Let me also say, Allred would not spend his time and treasure in becoming and then working as a civil rights attorney only to become a biscuit.

[StassneyHorn 6637]

Lines up with my thoughts, digital ads/internet is usually way cheaper and captures people who have expressed some interest through website tracking/clicks and cookies and other way more in depth AdTech.

Seems like the campaign avoided Ted Cruz marking his campaign early as a big threat and could have a coat rider effect down ballot for them with Kamala activating groups that he himself couldn’t. I haven’t seen people calling him a socialist or anything like that.
 

4 minute drill sounds right I guess. Down 6, needs the TD and the extra point.

[Pato del Muerto 52598]

Probably more like just got the ball back down 15 with 4 to go, needs a lot of shit to go right. 

[Macanudo 13012]

Allred is playing prevent defense.   On offense.

[SydneyCarton 48170]

 

20 hours ago, Covri said:

Maybe he and the Democratic Party in Texas are going to give it a real try after all.
 

https://archive.is/i8h5H

 

  Hide contents

U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, Texas Democrats to pool resources, volunteers

Why is Election Day in November? Find out before the 2024 presidential election.

There's a lot to keep track of ahead of the 2024 presidential election, but when you vote stays the same. Here's why Election Day falls in November. 

U.S. Rep. Colin Allred is plowing ahead in his battle to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz by launching a coordinated grassroots effort to share volunteers with the Texas Democratic Party for events, rallies, phone banks and voter registration.

The partnership with the state party would be the first of its kind in more than 20 years, according to Allred's campaign, which announced the collaboration Wednesday. It would allow party officials and Allred's camp to consolidate resources, potentially helping them avoid duplicating efforts on voter outreach.

Allred, a former civil rights attorney and current third-term congressman from Dallas, will officially kick off the effort with a rally Sunday in Houston. He will be joined by his wife, Alexandra Eber; former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner; Harris County Commissioners Rodney Ellis and Adrian Garcia; and Amanda Zurawski, the lead plaintiff in Zurawski v. Texas, a state Supreme Court case that sought to challenge Texas' near-total abortion ban.

The name of the new endeavor, "Texas Offense," is a nod to Allred's football career. He was a linebacker at Baylor University in Waco and had a brief stint in the NFL.

“Throughout my football career at Baylor and the NFL, I’ve always played defense. But now, along with Texans from all across our state, we are fully on offense to beat Ted Cruz,” Allred said in a news release Wednesday. “Our grassroots campaign of Texans is ready to win because we cannot afford six more years of Ted Cruz.”

State and federal campaign finance laws prevent federal candidates from directly sharing funds with state candidates, and vice versa, said Jon Taylor, a political science professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. But an effort like this could allow campaigns to pool voter data into a single database.

"Every campaign is going to have to raise money, but, at the same time, the money you're spending on your campaign can be used in terms of purchasing, say, registration information and software, that can be shared," Taylor said.

Allred's Texas Offense plan could allow him to make use of his massive war chest — he has raised more than $38 million since he announced his campaign last year — to benefit fellow Democratic candidates up and down the ticket.

"This is something that should have been happening in this state for at least the last 20-plus years, given the state's size and its burgeoning Democratic constituencies," Taylor told the American-Statesman in a phone interview Wednesday. "But let's see how this thing actually rolls out and see how much money they're actually going to have to do this."

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Allred's Wednesday announcement gives heft to Cruz's recent warnings — both in campaign donation solicitations and at the Republican National Convention — that his race is closer than polls might show it to be.

“It’s easy to be complacent," Cruz said, addressing the GOP convention crowd in Milwaukee on July 17. "One of the real mistakes people make in politics is they have a recency bias. They say, 'Well, whatever things have been recently, that’s what it’s going to be forever.'”

A Cruz campaign spokesperson, however, said Allred and Democrats are flailing and will continue to do so despite the Texas Offense launch.

“With a little over 100 days until Election Day, there is no question that Colin Allred’s last-ditch effort to campaign will fall short," Cruz's spokesperson told the Statesman. "It doesn’t matter how hard they try, the Texas Democrats fall flat on their face every electoral cycle, and this time will be no different.”

Taylor noted a similar approach has been taken in other states, including Pennsylvania, where Democrats are defending the seat of U.S. Sen. Bob Casey from a GOP challenge. He also said that it is standard practice in countries like England and Canada.

"This state's party needs to look at the best practices that were created in highly successful Democratic states," Taylor said. "That's where Texas Democrats have fallen down over the years."

Abortion in Texas

Allred's campaign began disseminating its first digital ads on abortion Wednesday. The 15- and 30-second videos, which will run statewide, feature two Texas OB-GYNs pinning responsibility for the state's near-total abortion ban on Cruz.

Text in the ad labels House Bill 1280, the Texas law that made administering an abortion a felony, as "TED CRUZ'S ABORTION BAN". While Cruz praised the U.S. Supreme Court for overturning the federal right to an abortion established in Roe v. Wade, saying it "will save the lives of millions of innocent babies," he is part of the U.S. Senate, not the Texas Legislature, and as such, he had no ability to vote for or against Texas' laws on abortion. 

Cruz in 2021 sponsored a bill in Congress that would have prohibited abortion nationwide after 20 weeks of pregnancy, except in cases of rape or risk of death. 

 

 

how the fuck has this kit been SOP everywhere, n every state, since forever ?

19 hours ago, TexasEd said:

I’m seeing anti-Cruz adds on streaming TV services.  No mention of Allred but at least calling out Ted.

I saw 3 Ted Cruz ads streaming on peacock during the Olympics, fwiw. 

[Vegas64 677]

6 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Hear that everybody? In 2024 Colin Allred would like you to know that he is not a fighter, credits Repubicans for lower drug costs and border solutions, and also puts creamy HEB house brand peanut butter on white bread. 

 

That guacamole was the bigger offender IMO. Straight out of the box of the refirigerated aisle of HEB.

[Bozo_Casanova 26553]

3 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

So has he spent any serious money yet? If I wanted to think about this race in nicest terms it seemed like he wanted to make it out of summer undamaged, with most his money, and 100 days to make an argument when people are finally tuning in.

My guess is now that he’s joining forces with the TDP they’ll make the ultimate gesture of bipartisanship and just donate it to the Cruz campaign.

[StassneyHorn 6637]

I really just want to get a sense of how many votes each party thinks they think they need. 4.5-4.7 million won the presidential elections in 04,08,12, and 16 for Republicans and generally flat (including Trumps first year).

Trump got 5.9 and Biden got 5.25 in 2020.

[Macanudo 13012]

What is needed to win or what is needed to keep shenanigans from happening because of MAGA controlled election boards?