The Daily Beast reports:
Democratic Rep. Colin Allred dished out plenty of one-liners Tuesday while debating Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, calling his podcast “angertainment” and labeling Cruz’s anti-trans messaging a “hail Mary” to distract from his unpopular opinions on abortion.
In one particularly memorable exchange, Allred told voters that his rival in the U.S Senate race would rather focus on transgender athletes because he “wants you thinking about kids in bathrooms so you’re not thinking about women in hospitals.”
The Texas Tribune reports:
He blasted Cruz for helping spike a bipartisan border package earlier this year and said the GOP senator was “only focused on himself,” invoking Cruz’s trip to Cancún in 2021 as Texas was paralyzed by a historic winter storm.
“He’s never there for us when we need him,” Allred said. “When the lights went out in the energy capital of the world, he went to Cancún. When a mob was storming the Capitol, he was hiding in a supply closet. And when the toughest border security bill in a generation came up in the United States Senate, he took it down.”
Watch Cruz’s reaction to the jab below.
Wow @tedcruz is a laughing stupid slob here. Such a serious time. Texas deserves better https://t.co/djgFuCPKLr
— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@AdamKinzinger) October 16, 2024