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 towards 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 help of permitting organic males to compete in sports activities towards 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 going through a brand new opponent they cannot beat by digging deeper.”
“Colin Allred may have stopped males from competing in girls’s sports activities, however as an alternative, he voted towards 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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“What sort of man does that?”
There’s additionally a 60-second model of the advert that exhibits him in a few images with then-Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Because the advert exhibits the images, the narrator says Allred “voted towards the Safety of Ladies and Ladies Act of 2023. He stood with woke progressives and radical Democrats, not our daughters.”
The advert, which will even run in Spanish, cites Allred’s vote in Congress towards The Safety of Ladies and Ladies 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 informed Fox Information Digital.
“He’ll say something to distract from his harmful abortion ban that’s placing girls’s lives in danger, making an attempt to boost the retirement age for Social Safety and Medicare and fleeing to Cancun throughout a lethal winter storm.”
Cruz gained his final Senate race by about three factors in 2018, and some consultants consider that this yr’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 current polls exhibiting Cruz with a lead near inside the margin of error.
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“Texas will keep pink this November and Ted Cruz will win re-election,” Jimmy Keady, the founder and president of JLK Political Methods, lately informed Fox Information Digital.
“However Republicans mustn’t take the specter of shedding this state flippantly. Because the Republican Occasion makes a play for blue states, Democrats are going to begin making a play for pink states… to carry these seats, Republicans must keep disciplined on messaging and prioritize candidate recruitment.”
Fox Information Digital’s Michael Lee contributed to this report