Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) has filed paperwork to enter the Democrat primary for the United States Senate hours after former Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX) dropped out of the race.

Just ahead of the state’s 6:00 p.m. Monday deadline for candidates to officially enter their paperwork ahead of the March 3 primary, a source told CBS News Texas that Crockett has completed her filing and is set to announce her campaign later in the day.

Instead of running for the Senate seat currently occupied by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Allred declared that he will be running for a seat in Texas’s new 33rd Congressional District, Breitbart News reported.

Crockett stated last week that she was “closer to yes than I am no” on running for Cornyn’s seat, arguing that a coalition of “black and brow

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