Former Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, is poised to secure a comeback bid for Congress after winning a hotly contested Democratic primary Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Allred defeated Rep. Julie Johnson, D-Texas, in a runoff election for a recently redrawn House seat Tuesday, according to The Associated Press.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The victor is almost certain to win the November general election for the deep-blue district. Republicans redrew the Dallas-based seat to make it even more Democratic last year while passing a new congressional map designed to help the GOP flip as many as five seats.<\/p>\n
The primary contest turned negative as both candidates fought to keep their political careers alive in one of the few remaining Texas House seats where Democrats still hold an advantage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
REDISTRICTING HELPS REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS FLIP HOUSE SEATS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Democratic Texas Rep. Marc Veasey, the district\u2019s incumbent, chose not to run for re-election, prompting Johnson to join the race after Republicans effectively drew her out of her district.\u00a0<\/p>\n Johnson, a freshman lawmaker, succeeded Allred in Congress after he vacated the seat to mount a failed bid to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz,<\/a> R-Texas, in 2024.<\/p>\n Allred decided to challenge Johnson for the open House seat in late 2025 after suspending his 2026 Senate campaign<\/a> when it failed to gain traction.<\/p>\n The former NFL linebacker later endorsed Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, during the final months of the Senate primary contest after accusing state Rep. James Talarico, Crockett’s opponent, of making a racist remark about him that he allegedly said during a private phone call with a party activist.<\/p>\n Talarico, the Democratic Party’s Senate nominee, vigorously denied calling Allred a “mediocre Black man” and said his private remarks referred to the former congressman’s campaign style.<\/p>\n TEXAS DEM SENATE CANDIDATE’S ‘MEDIOCRE’ COMMENT ROCKS RACE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Crockett endorsed Allred in April<\/a> and appeared with him on the campaign trail. Meanwhile, Talarico publicly supported Johnson\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n Johnson was also backed by House Democratic leadership, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the pro-abortion group EMILY\u2019s List and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, among other groups.<\/p>\n Allred likely benefited from higher name recognition due to previous statewide runs and a significant fundraising<\/a> advantage.\u00a0<\/p>\n He emerged as the top vote-getter during the March 3 primary, leading Johnson by an 11-point margin. However, the former congressman failed to secure more than 50% of the vote, sending the race to a runoff election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, is poised to secure a comeback bid for Congress after winning a hotly contested Democratic primary Tuesday.\u00a0 Allred defeated Rep. Julie Johnson, D-Texas, in a runoff election for a recently redrawn House seat Tuesday, according to The Associated Press.\u00a0 The victor is almost certain to win the November general election … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}