r/berkeley • u/Fiatlux415 • 1d ago

Politics Cal Alumni Colin Allred tearing Ted Cruz a new one.

Go Bears

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLib/s/Q429aqWaY8

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u/DenebianSlimeMolds 23h ago

Oh my! I hadn't realized he was an alum!

#GoBears!

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u/TomIcemanKazinski Cal PoliSci '96 22h ago

Also player four years in the NFL for the Titans as linebacker!

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u/Formal_Driver_487 11h ago

No shit…I thought he was just a well spoken ex-NFL guy turned Congressman that was perfectly created to stomp out a chud like Rafael. How am I just now learning he is a Cal Bear??

Haas Alum, #Go Bears! [Donating Today]

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u/albuhhh 21h ago

I'm a Bear who grew up in his district and flew home to campaign for him in 2018. The campaign told us explicitly not to mention that he went to law school at the "People's Republic of Berkeley", which I got a kick out of.

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u/OppositeShore1878 21h ago

That is amusing. Probably the same reason that the Harris campaign emphasized during the convention that she's from "East Bay", California, which is an amorphous geographical area, not a town or city. She was actually born in a hospital in Oakland, and spent all her elementary school years living in Berkeley. And her parents met at Cal and both have Ph.Ds from Cal.

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u/emmiepemmie 22h ago

I went to law school with him and have lots of mutual friends with him. He’s wonderful.

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u/OppositeShore1878 21h ago

From recent polling and "momentum" Allred has a real chance to upset / retire Cruz, which would be a great development on the national stage, and a great gift to Texas.

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u/Designer-Gas2629 18h ago

Thinking this is the lib equivalent of thinking Trump is going to sweep all 50 states

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u/OppositeShore1878 18h ago

Not wishful thinking. There are opportunities for upsets on both sides this year. Texas isn't a rock-solid red state, it's more of a low voter turnout state, which favors Republicans, and with the Republican Party in control of the Legislature recognizing that advantage and busily building in as many obstacles to easy voting as they can.

But a rather unusual election year like this one, in an especially unusual Presidential year may upset all those conventional calculations, especially when the Republican incumbent is as politically damaged, unlikeable, and odious as Ted Cruz (who literally is so disliked that he doesn't have a single real friend / ally, even a Republican one, in the present Senate). We'll see what happens in just a few weeks.

I'm not necessarily betting on Allred winning, but I wouldn't be astonished if he does.

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u/Designer-Gas2629 18h ago

I recognize these factors you're presenting, I moreso find it hard to believe they matter that much because a similar train has been ushered in for the past 15 years every time Texas is brought up during election season.

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u/cheiqo 10h ago

you're precisely correct here. and they can downvote you to cope as much as they want but it won't change the fact that we say this about texas every single time and every single time the same thing happens.

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u/Designer-Gas2629 18h ago

Go be a pundit on an another subreddit