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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.”

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Cancun Midnight Cowboy

[–] [email protected] 101 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

Al Franken,

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Articles like this leave me feeling giddy. Hopefully Texas gets an upgrade this November.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

I don't think he's wrong with this, but he kinda implies that the candidate with the most campaign money wins. Such a great democracy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Thoughts and prayers Ted. Thoughts and prayers lmao

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Send him back, we don’t want him.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fuck, you think we want him back? Shoot him into the sun

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Keep that shit away from me

- Sun

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 7 months ago (3 children)

“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.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Well, well, well...here come the consequences.

[–] [email protected] 194 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (4 children)

In red Texas, they vote AllRed?

I'll be happy to see Ted voted out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Better red than Ted?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Hopefully Allred can turn Texas all blue.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Allred

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

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