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Christian Collins
Christian Collins (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 8th Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on March 1, 2022.
Collins completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Collins earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas, Austin, in 2011 and a graduate degree from Liberty University in 2013. Collins founded the Texas Youth Summit and was an aide to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).[1] He also served as campaign manager to Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas).[2]
Elections
2022
See also: Texas' 8th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 8
Morgan Luttrell defeated Laura Jones and Roy Eriksen in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 8 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Morgan Luttrell (R)  | 68.1 | 153,127 |
 | Laura Jones (D) | 30.5 | 68,715 | |
 | Roy Eriksen (L) | 1.4 | 3,126 | |
| Total votes: 224,968 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 8
Laura Jones advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 8 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Laura Jones | 100.0 | 14,496 |
| Total votes: 14,496 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 8
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 8 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Morgan Luttrell | 52.1 | 34,271 |
 | Christian Collins | 22.3 | 14,659 | |
 | Jonathan Hullihan | 12.6 | 8,296 | |
 | Dan McKaughan | 2.4 | 1,585 | |
 | Jessica Wellington | 2.4 | 1,550 | |
 | Candice C. Burrows | 2.3 | 1,519 | |
| Chuck Montgomery | 1.8 | 1,169 | ||
 | Mike Philips | 1.3 | 871 | |
 | Jonathan Mitchell | 1.2 | 791 | |
 | Betsy Bates | 1.1 | 712 | |
| Taylor Whichard | 0.4 | 295 | ||
| Total votes: 65,718 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Christopher Revis (R)
- Ryan Jarchow (R)
- Salvador Gallegos (R)
- Adrian Kaiser (R)
Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 8
Roy Eriksen advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 8 on March 19, 2022.
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| ✔ | | Roy Eriksen (L) |
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Campaign themes
2022
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Christian Collins completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Collins' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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As a next-generation leader, Christian has made it a major priority to reach and educate Gen-Z and Millennials with Conservative Principles and inspire them to join our older generations in the fight to save America. He regularly speaks on high school and college campuses, and in 2019, he launched Texas Youth Summit and began bringing in many influencers, such as Donald Trump Jr., Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, Allie Beth Stuckey, and Kayleigh McEnany to join him in this effort. In 2021, he hosted his largest rally to date in Montgomery County, with over 2000 people, 1200 of which were youth.
He formerly worked as an aide to Senator Ted Cruz and has received Cruz's endorsement for this race. Christian has committed to join the House Freedom Caucus when elected to Congress to fight boldly for the America First Agenda. Many of you are tired of watching politicians that you’ve help elect, who you thought shared your Conservative values, start to sing a different tune once they get to Washington because they are blinded by their own ambition or bought by special interests. He feels the same way, and that’s why he's running. He'll be loyal to you – not to lobbyists, career politicians or any party agenda that does not respect the will of the voters. A people’s Congressman.- He will always fight for you and he won't sell out to the swamp.
- As a next-generation Conservative, he will work to bring young people into our Republican Party to work alongside our older generations to save America.
- He has worked hard his entire life. Nobody will work harder on the campaign trail or as your Congressman than him.
This isn't to say that he is not passionate about other issues too, but he believes that if we don't tackle these three issues first then we aren't going to have a country.
"I also look up to my other mentor and Sen. Ted Cruz's father, Rev. Rafael Cruz, who I've been blessed to spend hundreds of hours with over the course of the last seven years." Christian was Rafael's body man and together they traveled the country back in 2015-2016 speaking to churches, Tea Parties, and the Conservative Grassroots. Rafael escaped Communist Cuba and has a fire in his belly to wake up the church and get them involved in the political fight to save America. Many of Rafael's ideas and views Christian has adopted as his own.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on November 8, 2021
- ↑ Christian Collins' 2022 campaign website, "Meet Christian," accessed January 28, 2022
