{"id":310574,"date":"2026-05-27T10:26:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310574\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:26:38","slug":"former-rep-colin-allred-wins-hotly-contested-texas-house-primary-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310574\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Rep Colin Allred wins hotly contested Texas House primary runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Former Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, is poised to secure a comeback bid for Congress after winning a hotly contested Democratic primary Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Allred defeated Rep. Julie Johnson, D-Texas, in a runoff election for a recently redrawn House seat Tuesday, according to The Associated Press.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The victor is almost certain to win the November general election for the deep-blue district. Republicans redrew the Dallas-based seat to make it even more Democratic last year while passing a new congressional map designed to help the GOP flip as many as five seats.<\/p>\n

The primary contest turned negative as both candidates fought to keep their political careers alive in one of the few remaining Texas House seats where Democrats still hold an advantage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Former Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, won a primary runoff election for a newly configured House seat anchored in Dallas on Tuesday. (Jordan Vonderhaar\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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Democratic Texas Rep. Marc Veasey, the district\u2019s incumbent, chose not to run for re-election, prompting Johnson to join the race after Republicans effectively drew her out of her district.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Johnson, a freshman lawmaker, succeeded Allred in Congress after he vacated the seat to mount a failed bid to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz,<\/a> R-Texas, in 2024.<\/p>\n

Allred decided to challenge Johnson for the open House seat in late 2025 after suspending his 2026 Senate campaign<\/a> when it failed to gain traction.<\/p>\n

The former NFL linebacker later endorsed Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, during the final months of the Senate primary contest after accusing state Rep. James Talarico, Crockett’s opponent, of making a racist remark about him that he allegedly said during a private phone call with a party activist.<\/p>\n

Talarico, the Democratic Party’s Senate nominee, vigorously denied calling Allred a “mediocre Black man” and said his private remarks referred to the former congressman’s campaign style.<\/p>\n

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Texas state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic Party’s Senate nominee, allegedly called former Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, a “mediocre Black man” in a private phone call disclosed by a Democratic activist. (Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo\/AFP; Bob Daemmrich\/The Texas Tribune\/Bloomberg)<\/p>\n

TEXAS DEM SENATE CANDIDATE’S ‘MEDIOCRE’ COMMENT ROCKS RACE<\/a><\/p>\n

Crockett endorsed Allred in April<\/a> and appeared with him on the campaign trail. Meanwhile, Talarico publicly supported Johnson\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

Johnson was also backed by House Democratic leadership, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the pro-abortion group EMILY\u2019s List and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, among other groups.<\/p>\n

Allred likely benefited from higher name recognition due to previous statewide runs and a significant fundraising<\/a> advantage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Rep. Julie Johnson, D-Texas, speaks during a news conference with freshmen women during the House Democrats 2025 Issues Conference at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Va., on March 13, 2025. (Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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He emerged as the top vote-getter during the March 3 primary, leading Johnson by an 11-point margin. However, the former congressman failed to secure more than 50% of the vote, sending the race to a runoff election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, is poised to secure a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2671,2133,23498,287,2424,7883,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-310574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-democrats-elections","tag-politics","tag-republicans","tag-ted-cruz","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310574","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=310574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}