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.”

  • @Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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    1948 months ago

    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.

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      918 months ago

      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?
      Ted Cruz tearing up while working a phone with Trump/Pence signage on the wall.

    • @babypigeon@lemmy.world
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      38 months ago

      Excellent points, all. Perhaps a bit harsh to wolf scrotums which, unlike Ted Cruz, have a clear and useful purpose for their existence.

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      8 months ago

      Neoliberals lying to him to get him to resign is still so fucked up… They just didn’t want the competition.

      For those that don’t remember:

      The party leaders kept telling him the only way he could get an investigation to clear his name was to resign. And as soon as he resigned they said an investigation would be pointless since he already resigned…

      At the time it was one of the worst things modern dems had done, but they quickly eclipsed that.

  • @herrcaptain@lemmy.ca
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    “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.

    I don’t know whether or not it’s true that Soros has done this, but I do know it’s super weird that he’s such a boogeyman to the right. He’s basically synonymous with The Devil in their playbook of riling up their base.

    Anyway, it’s nice seeing them hate a billionaire for a change.

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    538 months ago

    What is the GOP going to do when Soros passes? He has been their boogeyman for so long they will need to replace him somehow.

    • @silence7@slrpnk.net
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      “Soros” is mostly a way of saying “Jew” with plausible deniability. There are plenty of other ways to do that

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      They tend to list the rothschilds or whatever. They’ll come up with more bullshit, they always do.

      Mostly they like to scapegoat soros because he’s jewish even though he’s got like 1/10 the funds of musk

    • @aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world
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      They’ll start a conspiracy theory about how he didn’t really die, and is actually immortal on account of all of the adrenochrome injections harvested from trafficked children by the satanic democratic cabal.

      I am now dumber for having written that.

    • @odelik@lemmy.today
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      They’ll have Elon Musk spread more lies on Twitter about migrants illegally voting or something.

  • @ATDA@lemmy.world
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    I enjoy calling his office and asking how much money the RNC has sent. They sigh, I giggle.

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    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.