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Do you know who these people are? I suspect you know the ones on the right, but not the two on the left.

Why is that? Why do you know who Lauren Boberg and Marjorie Taylor Green are, but not the two members of Congress on the left?

Why is it that Colin Allred and Abigail Spanberger

are in household names, but Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Beauburn are? Let's talk about

Colin Allred for a second. He's running for the U.S. Senate from the state of Texas, and he may well be the general

election candidate who would face off against Ted Cruz. Colin Albright could beat Ted Cruz,

but whether he does or not, doesn't really matter. His character does, though, because there

are profound lessons in it. It was my privilege recently to spend some time with Colin Allred on the Warning podcast. Let me tell you a story about him. He never knew his father. He was raised by his mother, but he found his way to Baylor College and onto the football team.

Colin Alred says that, if not for football, all of the good things in his life wouldn't have

happened. It's a tough sport. He played it very, very well and hard.

He loved his teammates, and they loved him.

And he made it all the way to the NFL.

When one day he found himself severely injured, a neck injury.

I asked him about it.

And Colin already told me what went through his mind when he was lying on the field. He was in the middle of a conversation about optimism and pessimism.

And Colin Allred said in that moment he knew his NFL career was over, that he would never play

football again. And the only

thought in his head was, I guess, well, I'm going to law school now. And he did. And then he went on

to serve his country in the Obama administration and then was elected to the United States

Congress. He's a person of character,

pragmatism, common sense. Why don't you know his name? Abigail Spanberger could have done

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