Pathological liar and serial podcaster Ted Cruz will face his Democratic opponent Colin Allred in tonight’s Texas Senate debate. Cruz is continuing to sink in the polls as he’s trying and failing to rebrand himself as an effective bipartisan senator. However, Texans are not buying the moderate makeover because they know Cruz’s extreme position on abortion, his deep ties with Project 2025, and they remember how he abandoned Texans for Cancun during a deadly winter freeze.
“Ted Cruz’s extreme record has finally caught up to him and Texans are ready to send him to Cancun,” said American Bridge 21st Century spokesperson Nico Delgado. “Cruz is backed into a corner, which is why he continues to lie about his bipartisanship and effectiveness. But Texans know Ted, and they will send him packing so that he can go chase his real dream of being a full-time podcaster.”
Here’s what you need to know about Ted Cruz:
- Cruz said overturning Roe and ripping away reproductive health care from millions of Texans was a “massive victory.”
- Cruz said the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe was about “enhancing democracy.”
- Cruz introduced a 20-week abortion ban and voted for an amendment to criminalize medical providers that performed an abortion after 20 weeks.
- Cruz has repeatedly opposed abortions even in cases of rape and incest.
- Cruz is sponsoring a sham bill on IVF and voted twice against a bill that would have created federal protections for IVF.
- Cruz voted to object to the vote count in Arizona and Pennsylvania in the 2020 election.
- Cruz refuses to say if he would accept the 2024 election results if Donald Trump loses.
- Cruz pitched schemes on Fox News on how to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
- Cruz flip-flopped on the insurrection after originally calling it a “terrorist attack” and then defended Trump and January 6th insurrectionists.
- Cruz was so determined to rip health care away from millions of Americans that he shut down the government in an effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
- Cruz supported raising the eligibility age for Medicare and Social Security.
- Cruz said Social Security was a “Ponzi scheme.”
- Cruz voted to privatize Social Security and supported Bush’s privatization plan.
- Cruz voted to cut Medicaid funding by $1 trillion.
- Cruz voted against the bipartisan immigration bill that would have provided for additional border patrol agents.
- Cruz opposed efforts to fund DACA and called to end it by “any and all means necessary.”
- Cruz opposed birthright citizenship.
- Cruz said he would oppose amnesty and deport all undocumented immigrants.
- Cruz repeatedly voted against raising the minimum wage and alleged increases in the minimum wage would be harmful to workers.
- Cruz voted against the final passage of the FY 2023 federal spending package, which included workplace accommodations for pregnant workers and new mothers.
- Cruz repeatedly voted against paid sick and family leave, including during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Cruz voted against a federal spending package in 2018 that prohibited employers from taking their employees’ tips.
- Cruz voted to disapprove a OSHA workplace safety rule in 2017 that allowed OSHA to cite an employer for failing to maintain workplace injury records for five years.
- Cruz got caught using foreign stock and AI footage in his Spanish-language ads.
- Cruz was a Trump critic and called him a “pathological liar.”
- Cruz was the chief architect of the government shutdown strategy in 2013.
- Cruz repeatedly lied about authoring one hundred bills that became law.
- Cruz is a Heritage Foundation darling and has deep ties with Project 2025.
- Cruz is under fire and has been hit with multiple ethics complaints for using his podcast to promote himself as iHeart Media contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to his super PAC.
Published: Oct 15, 2024