The Texas senator’s questionable podcast deal with iHeartMedia is raising eyebrows amid his increasingly desperate fundraising efforts
THE WALLS ARE closing in around Ted Cruz, and the Republican senator is lashing out.
Cruz, who has served two terms as Texas junior senator, is facing a tough reelection challenge from former NFL player and current U.S. Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas), who won Texas’ Democratic Senate primary in a landslide victory last month.
On Wednesday, Cruz begged for donation on Fox News while complaining that Allred is out fundraising his 2018 challenger, former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, by leaps and bounds.
“The Democrats are coming after me, they are gonna spend more than $100 million this year, George Soros is already spending millions of dollars in the state of Texas,” Cruz told Sean Hannity. “My opponent a liberal Democrat named Colin Allred, is out raising Beto O’Rourke, my last opponent, 3 to 1. They are flooding millions of dollars into Texas — and the reason is simple. You remember my last reelection, it was a 3-point race. I won by 2.6 percent.”
This is a fool’s errand. Ted Cruz is begging for donations from Fox News viewers, i.e. Trump supporters. He’s not even going to get “the crumbs from his master’s table” because there are not going to be any left to fall his own way – or any one else’s.
Donald Trump is literally hoovering up any and every penny that is usually spread around Republican causes and diverting them all to himself, and he has been working on this for years. It’s going very well. His daughter-in-law is now co-chair of the RNC, effectively turning any RNC money into his own.
But even those regular RNC donations have been failing for a while, because low-end individual donors (and plenty of high-end ones too) have stopped giving to the RNC at all and are simply handing their pennies straight to Trump.
It’s not even the Republican party anymore, it’s the Trump party. And Ted Cruz is possibly the most hated among them, certainly in the top five of Republicans who are despised by other Republicans. (I don’t want to cheat Gaetz, Boebert, or Greene out of the top spot accidentally.)
Yet hopeful Ted Cruz thinks there’s cash there for himself, lol. Dream on.