Ted Cruz is facing ethics questions regarding his relationship with iHeartMedia amidst a tight race against Rep. Colin Allred for 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 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.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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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.

  • ZK686@lemmy.worldEnglish
    02·
    8 months ago

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

    • Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        02·
        8 months ago

        It means that on Lemmy, just like Reddit:

        Republicans = Evil

        Democrats = Can do no wrong.