{"id":289333,"date":"2026-05-12T09:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289333\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T09:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:45:20","slug":"jasmine-crockett-campaigns-for-colin-allred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289333\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasmine Crockett campaigns for Colin Allred"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just over two months after her Democratic Senate primary defeat<\/a>, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett<\/a> returned to the campaign trail to help Democrat Colin Allred mine for votes in his congressional runoff against U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson.<\/p>\n

At a District 30 congressional art competition Saturday in southern Dallas, Crockett said Allred was a better choice than Johnson because of his experience fighting for voting rights.<\/p>\n

The issue has drawn greater focus in recent weeks after Supreme Court rulings that upheld newly drawn Texas congressional boundaries that critics say dilute minority voting strength and, in a Louisiana case, said the Voting Rights Act does not justify using race as the dominant factor in drawing lines.<\/p>\n

Crockett said electing candidates with a record on voting rights was especially important as Republicans across the country push new election laws and redistricting plans. She accused GOP leaders of \u201cdecimating access to the ballot box, specifically for people of color.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore he ever ran for office, Colin was a voting rights lawyer,\u201d Crockett said after meeting Allred at the event. \u201cHe has the track record. He\u2019s the better choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crockett is using her Fueling Individual Rights Everywhere political action committee, or FIRE PAC, to amplify her endorsements. It is designed to raise money for other candidates. Allred was the first contender to receive Crockett\u2019s backing after her Senate primary loss to state Rep. James Talarico.<\/p>\n

Allred hopes Crockett\u2019s star power can help him beat Johnson in the May 26 runoff.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople can sense her authenticity,\u201d Allred said. \u201cI\u2019m happy to have her support.\u201d<\/p>\n

He finished first in the March 3 primary with 44% of the vote, about 10 percentage points ahead of Johnson in the four-person race for Dallas County\u2019s 33rd Congressional District.<\/p>\n

Because runoffs are unpredictable and typically feature low voter turnout, it\u2019s essential that candidates get their supporters back to the polls for the second round.<\/p>\n

Crockett is one of the most popular Democrats in the country, especially among Black voters, who could be critical in the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just over two months after her Democratic Senate primary defeat, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett returned to the campaign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,287,292,101234,101233],"class_list":["post-289333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-politics","tag-texas-politics","tag-tp-congress","tag-tp-jasmine-crockett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}