{"id":311014,"date":"2026-05-27T16:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/311014\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:19:07","slug":"colin-allred-wins-texas-primary-to-get-his-old-house-seat-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/311014\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Allred wins Texas primary to get his old House seat back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Allred left the U.S. House to run for Senate in 2024, when he lost a challenge to GOP Sen. Ted Cruz. On Tuesday, he won the Democratic primary for Texas&#8217; 33rd District.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/live-results-texas-midterm-primary-runoffs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LIVE RESULTS: Paxton dominates Cornyn in Texas midterm primary runoffs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He had been running for Senate again this cycle but dropped his bid on the same day Rep. Jasmine Crockett announced she was running.<\/p>\n<p>He then said he would run again for the House. He defeated Rep. Julie Johnson, who had replaced him in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\n                    A free press is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy.\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"invite_body\">\n                    Support trusted journalism and civil dialogue.\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/give.newshour.org\/page\/88646\/donate\/1?ea.tracking.id=pbs_news_sept_2025_article&amp;supporter.appealCode=N2509AW1000100\" class=\"donation-link ga-click-funding ga-click-ender-funding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    Donate now<\/p>\n<p>                <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colin Allred left the U.S. House to run for Senate in 2024, when he lost a challenge to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-311014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311014","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=311014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}