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FIRST ON FOX: A conservative tremendous PAC is blanketing the airwaves with a brand new commercial slamming Texas Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Colin Allred, who’s locked in a high-profile race in opposition to Republican incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz.
The professional-Cruz Fact and Braveness PAC is rolling out a $3 million greenback advert purchase in Texas hitting the Democratic congressman over his earlier assist of permitting organic males to compete in sports activities in opposition to feminine opponents.
“Texas ladies are robust,” the 30-second model of the advert says, because it exhibits younger girls coaching for numerous sporting occasions. “However they’re dealing with a brand new opponent they cannot beat by digging deeper.”
“Colin Allred might have stopped males from competing in girls’s sports activities, however as an alternative, he voted in opposition to our daughters,” the advert continues earlier than it exhibits a person resembling Allred with the title “Allred” on his jersey, tackling one of many ladies.
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A professional-Cruz tremendous PAC is spending $3 million to hit Rep. Colin Allred, left, on his place on boys in ladies sports activities. (Fox Information)
“What sort of man does that?”
There’s additionally a 60-second model of the advert that exhibits him in a few pictures with then-Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Because the advert exhibits the pictures, the narrator says Allred “voted in opposition to the Safety of Ladies and Women Act of 2023. He stood with woke progressives and radical Democrats, not our daughters.”
The advert, which may even run in Spanish, cites Allred’s vote in Congress in opposition to The Safety of Ladies and Women in Sports activities Act of 2023, which handed the Home on a celebration line vote with President Biden saying he would veto it if it acquired to his desk.
“It is a disgusting, false assault, and one other instance of how Ted Cruz solely needs to divide Texans,” Allred marketing campaign spokesperson Josh Stewart advised Fox Information Digital.
“He’ll say something to distract from his harmful abortion ban that’s placing girls’s lives in danger, attempting to boost the retirement age for Social Safety and Medicare and fleeing to Cancun throughout a lethal winter storm.”
Cruz received his final Senate race by about three factors in 2018, and a few consultants imagine that this 12 months’s race might be shut once more.
Whereas the Actual Clear Politics polling common exhibits Cruz with a five-point lead within the race, there are some troubling indicators for the Republican incumbent, together with latest polls exhibiting Cruz with a lead near throughout the margin of error.
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Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Pictures)
“Texas will keep pink this November and Ted Cruz will win re-election,” Jimmy Keady, the founder and president of JLK Political Methods, lately advised Fox Information Digital.
“However Republicans mustn’t take the specter of shedding this state frivolously. Because the Republican Occasion makes a play for blue states, Democrats are going to start out making a play for pink states… to carry these seats, Republicans must keep disciplined on messaging and prioritize candidate recruitment.”
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) questions U.S. Secret Service Appearing Director Ronald Rowe, throughout a listening to in regards to the tried assassination of former President Donald Trump at a marketing campaign rally, convened by the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Safety Committees in Washington, D.C., on July 30, 2024. (ALLISON BAILEY/Center East Pictures/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Fox Information Digital’s Michael Lee contributed to this report
Andrew Mark Miller is a reporter at Fox Information. Discover him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and e-mail tricks to [email protected].
