'It’s not funny': Colin Allred calls out Ted Cruz’s hypocrisy during debate

Democratic Senate candidate Colin Allred faced off with incumbent, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) Tuesday night, and things got heated when Allred slammed the Republican senator's blatant hypocrisy.

You can't be for the mob on January 6 and for the officers. You can't. And it's not funny. Because you're a threat to democracy. I was on the House floor when we went through the votes. I remember when you objected to the results in Arizona.

A poll released by last month by the Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation(TxHPF) showed Allred trailing Cruz by only 3 percent.

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Regina Montoya, a member of the TxHPF Board of Directors, told WFAA that "the dynamism of the Harris campaign has had an obvious down ballot impact in the Allred vs. Cruz race, where Colin is now effectively tied with Cruz going into the final days of the campaign."

In August, "Allred recalled the day the Capitol was attacked — noting that he played in the National Football League before serving in Congress," during an interview with Baptist News.

"When you're a former professional football player in a situation like that," Allred said, "people will unsurprisingly look to you for protection. So I took my suit jacket off and got ready to take on whatever came through that door."

The Democratic hopeful continued, "That day, we came closer to losing our democracy than a lot of people realize, and Ted Cruz is responsible for that. He spread the lie that the election was stolen and was the senator who objected to the certification of the results in an attempt to overturn the will of the American people. But when the mob stormed the Capitol, he hid in a supply closet."

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