Former Rep. Colin Allred ends Texas Senate campaign and runs for new House seat

Former Democratic Rep. Colin Allred announced Monday that he is ending his Senate campaign in Texas and running for the House, shaking up the primary just hours before filing deadline.

Former Democratic Rep. Colin Allred announced Monday that he is ending his Senate campaign in Texas and running for the House, shaking up the primary just hours before filing deadline.

Allred's announcement that he is instead running for the redrawn 33rd Congressional District in North Texas comes as Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett has been openly weighing a Senate run. She is announcing her decision later Monday afternoon.

“In the past few days, I’ve come to believe that a bruising Senate Democratic primary and runoff would prevent the Democratic Party from going into this critical election unified against the danger posed to our communities and our Constitution by Donald Trump and one of his Republican bootlickers Paxton, Cornyn, or Hunt,” Allred said in a statement. “That’s why I’ve made the difficult decision to end my campaign for the U.S. Senate.”

Allred went on to say he is "nowhere near done serving my community and our state" and that he is running in the new 33rd district, a deeply Democratic seat that was redrawn by a Republican-led redistricting effort.

"The 33rd district was racially gerrymandered by Trump in an effort to further rig our democracy but it’s also the community where I grew up attending public schools and watching my mom struggle to pay for our groceries. ... It’s the community where I was raised, and where Aly and I are now raising our two boys. It is my home," Allred said.