Former Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, is dropping his Senate bid to run in a newly drawn 33rd Congressional District, he announced in a statement Monday on X.
"I am deeply moved by the personal stories and trust that so many Texans have placed in me. I'm forever grateful and believe it comes with heavy responsibility," his X post read.
"That's why I've made the difficult decision to end my campaign for Senate and run to represent the newly drawn CD-33."
Allred's announcement comes amid a potentially crowded Senate race and the Supreme Court ruling that obstruction of the constitutionally passed Texas redistricting maps will not prevent the largest red state from determining the makeup of its congressional districts.
Allred lost to incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, by nearly nine points in 2024.
While getting out of what figures to be a big-money Senate race, he criticized the Republican primary candidates – Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas – as GOP "bootlickers."
"In the past few days, I've come to believe that a bruising Senate Democratic primary and runoff would prevent the Democratic Party from going into this critical election unified against the danger posed to our communities and our Constitution by Donald Trump and one of his Republican bootlikkers Paxton, Cornyn or Hunt," Allred wrote in a statement.
A reference to licking boots in Texas could be construed as racially derogatory. Hunt is a Black man.
Allred also accused Republicans of racially motivated redistricting, but the reality is the 33rd Congressional District is expected to remain a Democrat stranglehold.
"The 33rd district was racially gerrymandered by Trump in an effort to further rig our democracy but it's also the community where I grew up attending public schools and watching my mom struggle to pay for our groceries," Allred wrote.
While Texas is the largest red state in the nation, the new Texas-33 will be deep blue. Trump won the 2024 presidential election and the state of Texas in landslides, but he would have lost the newly drawn Texas-33 by 33 points, according to NBC News.
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