U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who is facing off against Allred in his reelection campaign, has worked to tie Allred to Harris’ political record.

"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.

Allred’s response was polite, but muted: “Vice President Harris was a member of the congressional Black Caucus and I’ve known her for some time and I support her nomination.”

That five-second comment was all the time Allred spent discussing Harris. He quickly pivoted for the rest of the seven-minute segment to attacking Cruz for blocking bipartisan border security and immigration bills, opposing abortion access and leaving the state for Cancun when millions of Texans had lost power in their homes in 2021.

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."

  • Frog@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    If you are so unbiased then talk about her voting record as a senator. That doesn’t seem to be brought up enough considering you were talking about Harris’ progressiveness.

    Don’t ignore how problematic her choices have been and the lives she’s destroyed to get where she’s at.

    There are laws passed before her time in government. It was never her job to arrest people or to sentence them or to make laws as DA. It was never her job to judge anyone and yet Republican talking points make it seem like she was a judge. She was never a judge.

    If you want to continue you said she was Draconian. Again she didn’t make the laws, and she didn’t sentence them. But if you really want to go down that route then you might as well say that during her time as DA of Alameda County, there were 0 executions in the county. During time as DA in San Francisco there were 0 executions in the county. Her time as attorney general of CA from 2010 to 2017 there were 0 executions.

    You said you can go on and on, then go ahead but you keep on mentioning her voting record as a senator, a role she actually votes to pass laws. The you can mention her tie breakers in the Senate and see who she put in government positions.