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There’s a set of well-worn facts commonly deployed when a Democrat announces a statewide run in Texas: voters here haven’t backed the Democratic candidate for president since 1976. They haven’t backed a Democrat for a Senate seat since 1988. They haven’t backed a Democrat for any statewide seat since 1994. It makes sense, then, that when representative Colin Allred, of Dallas, and state senator Roland Gutierrez, of San Antonio, announced their respective bids against Ted Cruz, the incumbent was already celebrating what he predicted would be his opponents’ demise. “Bottom line, Allred is too extreme for Texas,” a Cruz spokesperson said in a statement following Allred’s May announcement. “Texans will now get to watch Colin Allred and Roland Gutierrez slug it out for who can…

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