Congressman Colin Allred (D-TX-32) has gone his own way, and from a cursory perspective, it will either pay off or crash and burn. But there is a third option available to the Democrat challenging Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who is running for another six years in the U.S. Senate.
Texas is not a Democratic state. Republicans hold every single statewide position and they usually win those by double-digit margins. The minority party’s only whiff of an upset in the last couple of decades came six years ago in an anomaly of a cycle marked by two GOP officials with high negatives — one in then-President Donald Trump, two years into his term, and the other in Cruz.
