Texas Democrat Roland Gutierrez Enters Race to Unseat Cruz

Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a Democrat, announced his candidacy on Monday to challenge incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in the state’s 2024 U.S. Senate race.
Mr. Gutierrez, 52, represents a district along the southern border that includes San Antonio and the community of Uvalde—the location of the Robb Elementary School mass shooting of May 24, 2022 in which a lone gunman killed 19 students and two teachers, and wounded 17 others.
He has made gun control, and what he describes as Republican refusal to take action on the issue, central to his campaign.
The Texas Democratic U.S. Senate primary now has two candidates with solid name recognition: Mr. Gutierrez, and Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas), a former football star at Baylor University in Waco, who played four years in the NFL with the Tennessee Titans….}