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.”
Ted is one of the biggest AIPAC recipients this is great news.
In red Texas, they vote AllRed?
I’ll be happy to see Ted voted out.
These headlines come out literally every time he’s up for reelection. And he wins so easily. I feel like it’s just clickbait. Or worse, calls for donations for a doomed campaign
Lindsay Graham did the same thing in his last re-election
And Mitch McConnell. Many people donated to his opponent rather than donating to other races that were Actually competitive.
Hopefully Allred can turn Texas all blue.
Oh sheet a footballer? Ted is cooked. They all claim to be christian but we know who the true god of Texas is. The almighty pigskin.
Nobody in Texas outside of Dallas or Houston cares about the NFL, though. It matters more that he played college ball at Baylor, I think.
I thunk it also matters that he wasn’t very good. According to his Wikipedia page, he only played in 32 games over 4 years as a pro. That probably saved his brain from CTE.
The guy went on to get a law degree and a career in government, so you’re probably right. His brain didn’t get scrambled too badly from the NFL.
You could argue, though, that if his brain did get scrambled he would make the perfect MAGA Republican
Better red than Ted?
Ted Cruz is a lickspittle traitor who blamed his daughters for his leaving the State during an emergency and tried his hardest to overthrow the government.
Nothing would make me happier than to throw him out of office kicking and screaming on his wolf-scrotum-looking face.
And that’s the nicest thing I can say about him.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy!
Remember Trump trashing his wife and father during the primary a few cycles ago and Ted working the phone bank after being thrashed?
Hey now, that association is very unfair to wolf scrotums.
Cancun Midnight Cowboy
Articles like this leave me feeling giddy. Hopefully Texas gets an upgrade this November.
Anywhere else in the world he would expect to lose it
If a Democrat wins a statewide election in Texas that would send shockwaves through the American political norms. It’d be the Georgia 2020 Senate elections and runoffs but on steroids. Serious Republicans know that when (not if) Texas becomes a presidential election swing state it’s just about over. The Democrats could ignore Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and Florida to focus solely on winning Texas… meanwhile a cash strapped GOP would have to fight in Texas while also spending money in all those other swing states. They haven’t had to really fight for Texas since like 1980, they might not even have the ground game infrastructure to pull it out of a tail spin if Texas goes purple. The Republican party would still be around in the Senate, House, and governor’s mansions, but hope for a Republican president would be over for like a decade at least… if the party doesn’t crumble from such an event, with donors fleeing to found new parties.
Why do you think the Republicans have been so focused on turning Florida and Texas into such distasteful MAGAt breeding grounds? They know if they lose either one, they’re done for.
Slowly going purple. Their cushy time is over
Fuck I hope so
Time to donate!
The last time we were sure that we were gonna flip Texas blue was November of 2016. Nothing is done until the voting and the inevitable Republican post-election violence are over. This is fundraising propaganda designed to frighten his party faithful, not an accurate statement about how he currently feels in this election cycle. But it is possible, and would be pretty amazing if we could make it happen. Vote, donate, do the work.
Cruz always struck me as the kind of guy who wouldn’t give a damn if he was removed from congress. He often splits from his party and does stuff to piss off his own voters.
Ted Cruz is a spineless snake-swine with no sense of morality and definitely no desire to do what’s right for anyone but himself.
Lemmy and Reddit would love that! If it was up to them, we’d be a ONE party system!
What does this comment even mean? Yeah, everyone who isn’t a Texas hick would love to see Rafael Cruz pack it up and head back to cancun. He’s an awful senator, let alone a terrible person.
If it was up to them, we’d be a ONE party system!
Are you criticizing the fact that a seat is going to flip? Because that’s what happens in a democracy. It goes both ways and reflects the will of the people.
Or are you criticizing the fact that the dems are raising a huge amount of money? You mean like how the republicans instituted citizens united to do exactly that for their own team? Are you salty because a republican is losing at their own game?
Something tells me it’s neither of those things and you’re just mindlessly repeating some drivel you saw about how democrats are evil.
It means that on Lemmy, just like Reddit:
Republicans = Evil
Democrats = Can do no wrong.
I enjoy calling his office and asking how much money the RNC has sent. They sigh, I giggle.
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.
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