Colin Allred in one of the year's most expensive races, which is testing shifts in America's biggest red state and could factor into the fight for U.S. Senate control ... and people relocating from other states. He also has experience defeating a high ...

Texas voters could decide control of the United States Senate this year. Democratic Congressman Colin Allred is challenging incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz for Senate in a race that has attracted national attention.

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.