- cross-posted to:
- texas@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- texas@lemmy.world
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.”
― Al Franken,
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.
I didn’t know this context. I knew he was being pressured to resign, but I assumed it was by angry constituents.