Republican incumbent Ted Cruz and Democratic challenger Colin Allred returned to the Dallas area to make their closing arguments in the final days of Texas’ red-hot U.S. Senate race.
Cruz fired up supporters Friday at a Plano “party barn” where the walls were covered in old-timey memorabilia.
Cruz said voters should “keep Texas, Texas” by backing conservative policies he said are inspiring a steady stream of businesses and residents to move to the state.
Allred is a liberal masquerading as a moderate, Cruz said, who would undermine the policies driving that success.
The next day at the iconic Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff, Allred rallied his side by telling supporters Cruz is too small-minded and self-interested for a state as big as Texas.
Allred vowed to work across the aisle and blamed Cruz for women who suffered or died after being denied medically necessary abortions.