Colin Allred

Kiitos paljon, että olit katsomassa minua. Kaikki, mitä sanoit, on oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan siitä, mitä he ovat tehneet näissä järjestelmissä. Sen jälkeen myös senaattisen rauhassa, kun katsotaan, että meillä on mahdollisuus saada melkein varovainen aloittaminen, koska Teksassa, jos et saa enemmän kuin 50 prosenttia alueella, sinun täytyy mennä aloittamiseen.

I felt like that was not in the best interest of the party or of the state. For me it was a personal decision because I've developed a relationship and a lot of trust with so many Texans around the state. People come up to me and tell me their most intimate details of their personal lives and what they're going through and how they're hoping that somebody can help them.

I felt a responsibility to those folks to try and make sure that we have a unified party going into November and that I could best serve by looking at serving my hometown and the place where I was born and raised in Congress at a time when we're losing voices and we need even stronger voices and have our best players in the field. I completely disagree with what Speaker Johnson said there. I think this is one of the worst

House of Representatives in American history. I think that the fact that they were in session for about 10 days out of 120 wouldn't even allow a newly elected member in Arizona to be sworn in because they were afraid of the Epstein files being released. It's just one indication you can take of how dysfunctional this Congress has been. We've got to go in there, we've got to shake it up, we've got to fix it. We have to restore the fact that Congress is Article 1 of the Constitution. And I think the founders did that for a reason.

there's a dramatic change going on and i think a lot of folks you know in the last election and somebody was raised by a single mom and was a public school teacher who grew up struggling i have some kind of empathy for folks who in the last election thought hey you know maybe this guy really will make my costs go down and maybe he really will mean what he says that inflation is going to go away but the problem is they were lied to and i think on the flip side they also know that

They are seeing what's happening. Working folks across Texas are aware that they're working harder and harder for less while these openly corrupt jackasses that they see on TV and on their phones are out there doing all kinds of stuff and are getting ahead. And to your point with the Latino community, the last time I was in South Texas, and my family is from Brownsville, the very tip of Texas,

En ole koskaan tunnettu sellaista huolta kuin kun olin siellä. Huolta emmaksuudesta, joka tapahtui siellä, mutta myös tarvittavista tarpeista ja huolta. Olin yhdessä huolimarkkinoissa,

Onnistuja sanoi, että se oli kuten COVID-2.0 heille, eli sen yrityksen vaikutuksen. Tämä kaikki pitää vaikuttaa valinnassa, mutta meidän tehtävä on varmistaa, että se toimii. Että menemme ihmisille ja sanomme, että tämä on oikea, että tämä on RIG-järjestelmä. Ja on oikea ajatella, että ehkä aiemmin demokraatit eivät puhuneet tästä tarkemmin.

We're going to talk about it now. We're not just talking about small incremental changes. We want to do big dramatic changes because we're in a big dramatic moment that requires that. To me that kind of broadness of vision is what we have to bring to this to make sure that we take that feeling they have and turn it into votes.

Minulla on monia ihmisiä, joiden kanssa olen työskennellyt, erityisesti Texas Delegationissa, jotka sanovat, kun he ovat onnellisia, että heidän pitää jättää tämän henkilön. Se, mitä olen aina ymmärtänyt, on se, kuinka he voivat poistaa heidän syrjäänsä kärsivästi.

and still walk around without that support. It's incredible to me. There is no scenario where I would feel this way about the so-called leader of our party and would just keep it to myself. I understand that some of them are personally afraid. They think that their families may be threatened and things like that. Marjorie Taylor Greene has certainly been speaking about that.

To be honest, when you enter public life and what you're trying to do if you believe in public service, it can't be about you. And if it is just about you, then you'll end up doing things like this. You'll end up being okay with dropping all of your views and all of your values for someone else's values. Because all you really care about is yourself. And I think that's what we have to excise from our politics as much as we can. We'll never get rid of all of it.

But if we can get a critical mass of folks who are more interested in public service than they are in themselves, then that will allow us to really get back on track. And I also mean that for the Republican Party as well. And I am constantly, I'm an optimist, and so I want to believe that at some point we may see some of that. I am shocked by what Marjorie Taylor Greene is doing right now. I never, never imagined that she would be out there denouncing the president and saying that her colleagues are all cowards.

mutta hän tekee sitä, ja mielestäni meidän pitäisi katsoa sitä ja sanoa, että siellä on jotain siellä. Siellä on jotain siellä, jota voimme kuvitella. Siellä on jotain siellä Epstein-kirjassa, jossa voimme sanoa, että siellä on joitain vahvoja. Ja toivottavasti, kun heitämme heidät tällä kesällä, meidän täytyy katsoa tätä ja sanoa,

Do you really want to spend the last two years just following a lame duck president's increasingly crazy views, or do you want to actually be a representative for your community? And that with that, we may actually be able to get something done. And so that's what I think we have to hope for and try to make happen. Let's talk about that before we go. Your message to our six million subscribers before we go, where can they learn more about your campaign?

Yeah, I hope they'll go to colinallred.com, get involved with us. We have to make sure that we have incredibly strong voices from Texas, because we're going from having 13 Democratic members of our delegation out of 38, which it should be higher than that, we were already gerrymandered as you said, to now maybe having only eight, maybe nine.

Hopefully 10, and we'll try and frustrate them in some of these districts they thought they were going to win. But we are representing 30 million Texans, and we have to have strong voices. I'll be representing the community that I come from if folks are willing to vote for me. And I need to make sure that we have really strong voices that will go into Congress with a defined idea of what they're going to do to clean it up, and to also say to our own party,

Here's what we have to do to get back on track, particularly with working people. That's what I've been focused on in this campaign, and I need folks' help going forward.

Of course it is.

And I think, listen, Jasmine's a friend of mine and we've served together.