Ted Cruz Is Getting Nervous He's Going to Lose His Senate Seat

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.”

Unpigged,

I do not like that man Ted Cruz

Etterra,

Nobody likes him, not even his own constituents. They’re just idiots who vote R without even thinking about the alternative because reality causes cognitive dissonance.

FiniteBanjo,

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.

TrueStoryBob,

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.

athos77,

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.

Raiderkev,

Brb, moving to Texas.

ZK686,

Lemmy and Reddit would love that! If it was up to them, we’d be a ONE party system!

Seasoned_Greetings,

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.

ZK686,

It means that on Lemmy, just like Reddit:

Republicans = Evil

Democrats = Can do no wrong.

Seasoned_Greetings,

Are you new here? More people hate on dems for being awful than anywhere I’ve ever seen.

And besides that, republicans are objectively bad. A lot of them are actually evil. The one they’re trying to put in the white house literally said he wants to be a dictator.

It doesn’t get much more cut and dry than that.

ChunkMcHorkle, (edited )
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reverendsteveii,

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.

sartalon,

Here in Texas, we can vote all blue AND Allred, at the same time.

Seasoned_Greetings,

You should be this man’s campaign manager, because that might actually work on Texans

RememberTheApollo_,

Maybe he could run off to a tropical destination while this blows over, too.

Linkerbaan,
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Ted is one of the biggest AIPAC recipients this is great news.

PrincessLeiasCat,

I’ll be doing my part to see this asshole off to Cancun or wherever the fuck else for good.

Vote, y’all!

Grobmobularb,

Please, and fuck Ted Cruz. Piece of fucking shit.

homesweethomeMrL,

Rafael Cancun?

btaf45,

Turd Cruds

TheJims,

Fled cruz

ATDA,

I enjoy calling his office and asking how much money the RNC has sent. They sigh, I giggle.

youngGoku, (edited )

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.

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