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Colin Allred drops out of Texas Senate race

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Former Texas Rep. Colin Allred ended his Senate run on Monday as challenger Jasmine Crockett prepares to announce her likely bid for the seat that has long eluded Democrats.

Allred instead declared his intention to run for Congress in Rep. Julie Johnson’s seat. A resident of Dallas, he was making his second attempt to unseat a Texas Republican in the Senate after losing to Sen. Ted Cruz in 2024.

Allred was facing the possibility of a crowded Democratic primary: He was already up against state Rep. James Talarico, a rising star within the Democratic Party. Allred lagged in fundraising behind Talarico, and Crockett – an outspoken member with a strong national profile – would also prove to be a formidable challenger.

Allred, in a statement, said he wanted to avoid a messy Senate primary and will instead run for Congress in the newly drawn 33rd Congressional District, which had its lines redrawn after the U.S. Supreme Court last week allowed Texas to use a new GOP-friendly map drawn this year. His switch comes on the final day candidates can file to run in Texas for the March primary.

A bruising primary is taking place on the Republican side: Incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, Attorney General Ken Paxton or Rep. Wesley Hunt are dueling for the GOP nomination.

“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 bootlikkers Paxton, Cornyn or Hunt,” he said in a statement. “That’s why I’ve made the difficult decision to end my campaign for the U.S. Senate.”

Democrats need to net four seats to regain control of the Senate — a tough task that they believe was made easier by their sweeping success around the country on Election Day last month.

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Mark Carney, king of the cup

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LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump has stayed away from the World Cup after making himself the main character of the months leading up to it. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum prominently gave away her tickets to Mexico’s matches in what was seen as a populist rebuke to FIFA.

But one North American leader is reveling in the fact that his country is hosting the world’s top sporting event, and that its national team is doing well.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney attended two of Canada’s group-stage matches, a visible
and gave a locker-room talk to the team after its defeat of Qatar that spread widely on social media. Carney has been such an omnipresent component of his team’s group-stage run that its one defeat, against Switzerland, has been blamed on the “Carney Curse” because the prime minister briefly stepped away from his seat when a crucial goal was scored.

Carney has not said whether he is traveling to Los Angeles for today’s knockout fixture against South Africa, but he did use the match-up as an occasion to call President Cyril Ramaphosa, where the two men discussed “growing cooperation in agriculture and agrifood,” according to a readout provided by the prime minister’s office.

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Capitol agenda: House GOP agenda gets tenuous Trump lifeline

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The World Cup’s final boss

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World Cup planners have long expected President Donald Trump will come to one or more matches. Now we know, thanks to FIFA head Gianni Infantino, that Trump will be at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey to hand out the gold trophy after the final match concludes.

The July 19 event will be one more test of the region’s security and transportation apparatus, one that is in the middle of a long summer, including Trump’s early trip to New York earlier that month for a parade of warships.

From a logistical perspective, said Alex Lasry of the bistate New York/New Jersey host committee, the final is “its own animal,” with its own set of transportation and security worries.

At least one part of the animal will be familiar to local organizers: Trump’s presence. The president regularly returns to his native New York City and his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey. He was at MetLife last year to hand out the Club World Cup trophy alongside Infantino.

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