Colin Allred’s quote:

“You can’t be for the mob on January 6 and for the officers. You can’t. I was on the House floor when we went through the votes. I remember when you objected to the results in Arizona. Y’all at home might remember where you were on January 6, what you were doing. I know where I was, and I know where he was. I remember when they told us to reach under our seats for these gas masks I didn’t know we had because they had deployed tear gas in the rotunda. The officers locked all the doors, we barred the doors… And I texted my wife Aly, who was seven months pregnant with our son Cameron and at home with our son Jordan who wasn’t yet two, “Whatever happens, I love you.” I took off my suit jacket, and I was prepared to defend the House floor from the mob. At the same time, after he’d gone around the country lying about the election, after he’d been the architect of the attempt to overthrow an election, when that mob came, Senator Cruz was hiding in a supply closet."

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    Nothing will make me happier than to see that smug cunt Cruz booted out of the senate.

    Actually, that is not true. Ken Paxton in federal prison would make me happier.

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      If it’s of any consolation, there’s some joy to be found in watching him utterly degrade himself in service of the even bigger piece of shit that made an absolute mockery of both Cruz and his family.

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      Nothing will make me happier than to see that smug cunt Cruz booted out of the senate.

      I wouldn’t hold my breath. He won his primary by more votes than Trump did this year. Cruz is intensely popular in the televangelical wing of the party and firmly entrenched in the state. Meanwhile, Allred still has middling name recognition and lackluster enthusiasm.