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.”

Zombiepirate,
@Zombiepirate@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Hominine,
@Hominine@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Kase,

Lmao thank you for this photo

Laurentide,
@Laurentide@pawb.social avatar

Hey now, that association is very unfair to wolf scrotums.

babypigeon,

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

vinniep,

I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.

― Al Franken,

givesomefucks,

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.

triptrapper,

I didn’t know this context. I knew he was being pressured to resign, but I assumed it was by angry constituents.

herrcaptain,

“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.

jkrtn,

It is a dogwhistle. For the Repub’s voting base, which is Nazis, they understand he is talking about “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

gregorum,

Aka “THE JOOOOOZ!”

Hazzia,

The only thing they hate as much, are the lgbt. Put them together, and you get the true republican kryptonite:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/64294ab8-ada5-45e1-a6c8-fcc192160e9c.jpeg

vaultdweller013,

A glass of juice?

MutilationWave,

Fruit juice - gay jews

vaultdweller013,

Ah, aight that makes sense.

billiam0202,

George Soros is a Jewish man who has spent lots of time and money fighting Soviet influence in eastern Europe.

Of course Republicans hate him.

BeMoreCareful,

They’d probably rather talk about a billionaire Democrat donor than acknowledging that billionaire Republican foundations are basically what funds their party.

Preemptive spin, or projection or whataboutism or guilt or something. Defense by offense. I doubt either party really wants to hang a lantern on their funding.

Hazzia,

Golly gee, for the fiscal responsibility party those republicans sure do seem to be having a whole lot of money troubles lately. Sure do wonder what that all’s about.

TigrisMorte,

avocado toast, I am advised.

Conyak,

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,

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

inclementimmigrant,

He’ll just be replaced by the Ghost of Soros in a very effective Scooby-doo-esque campaign because that’s how their base rolls.

Fedizen,

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,

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,

They’ll have Elon Musk spread more lies on Twitter about migrants illegally voting or something.

whereisk,

Bill Gates is up next. They had a trial run already with COVID conspiracies.

Tolookah,

In red Texas, they vote AllRed?

I’ll be happy to see Ted voted out.

anarchrist,

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.

dhork,

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.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Allred

phoneymouse,

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.

dhork,

You could argue, though, that if his brain did get scrambled he would make the perfect MAGA Republican

danc4498,

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

FattestMattest,

Lindsay Graham did the same thing in his last re-election

danc4498,

And Mitch McConnell. Many people donated to his opponent rather than donating to other races that were Actually competitive.

phoneymouse,

Hopefully Allred can turn Texas all blue.

dyathinkhesaurus,

Better red than Ted?

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

ATDA,

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

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RememberTheApollo_,

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

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.

PrincessLeiasCat,

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

Vote, y’all!

cosmicrookie,
@cosmicrookie@lemmy.world avatar

Anywhere else in the world he would expect to lose it

homesweethomeMrL,

Rafael Cancun?

btaf45,

Turd Cruds

TheJims,

Fled cruz

HootinNHollerin,

Slowly going purple. Their cushy time is over

AquaTofana,

Fuck I hope so

TragicNotCute,
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