5 takeaways from the Texas Senate debate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : And he emphasized his own bipartisan bona fides -- specifically highway bills with Sens.
47% : "He knows that, but he's trying to deceive everybody.""Every Texas family watching this has to understand that when Ted Cruz says he's pro-life, he doesn't mean yours," Allred said.Allred tacks right on border, trans rightsModerators asked Allred to respond to Cruz's two principal lines of attack against him, the border and medical care for transgender youth.
42% : This in large part reflects Allred's narrow path to victory in what remains a very red state: while the presidential race in Texas has grown tighter, Vice President Harris is 5.5 points behind Trump in the Lone Star State, according to the DDHQ averages.
38% : When moderators pressed the Democrat on why he previously opposed Trump's border wall but supported President Biden's recent plans to expand it, Allred cautioned against taking "something out of context from seven years ago.
36% : At another, he spotlit his counsel to Trump on Israel, an issue that fired the senator up perhaps more than any other brought up during the debate.
29% : "Trump an asset, Harris a liabilityCruz throughout the debate touted his ties to Trump, while Allred kept the top of his own party's ticket at arm's length and declined to attack the former president, whom Democrats elsewhere have used as a bogeyman.

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