Tag Archives: Ted Cruz

Romney Blasts “Egregious Ploy” By Cultist Senators

From a statement issued today by Sen. Mitt Romney: The egregious ploy to reject electors may enhance the political ambition of some, but dangerously threatens our Democratic Republic. The congressional power to reject electors is reserved for the most extreme and unusual circumstances. These are far from it. More Americans participated in this election than ever before, and they made …

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Axios: Multiple GOP Senators To Join Electoral Challenge

Axios reports: A growing number of Republican senators — led by Ted Cruz — are set to announce today they also will object to certifying state Electoral College votes on Wednesday, congressional sources familiar with their conversations tell Axios. Cruz, who, like Hawley, is thought to be considering a 2024 presidential bid, plans to release a statement this afternoon announcing …

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Cruz Is Pocketing Donations For GA Senate Runoffs

The Daily Beast reports: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) needs your help to keep the U.S. Senate in Republican hands. So blared a handful of Facebook’s ads that Cruz’s campaign committee purchased this month. But none of them were actually raising money for the Republican candidates in Georgia. Instead, every penny donated went directly to…Cruz. The Cruz campaign bought 15 separate …

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Cruz Got $35M Bailout For Billionaire Fracking Donors

The Wall Street Journal reports: As the coronavirus pandemic and low oil prices walloped U.S. frackers this spring, Texas billionaires Dan and Farris Wilks got a $35 million relief loan to help one of their fracking companies stay afloat. At the same time, they were on a buying spree in the country’s oil patch. Since spring, businesses controlled by the …

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Trump Asked Cruz To Argue TX Case Before SCOTUS

CNN reports: President Donald Trump personally asked Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas if he would argue a long-shot election lawsuit seeking to overturrn the election results in four battleground states, should the Supreme Court agree to take it up, two sources told CNN on Wednesday. Trump inquired on Tuesday whether Cruz would argue the case, which was filed by …

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Cruz Offers To Argue Trump’s PA Case Before SCOTUS

Via press release from Sen. Ted Cruz: Because of the importance of the legal issues presented, I’ve publicly urged the US Supreme Court to hear the case brought by Congressman Mike Kelly, congressional candidate Sean Parnell and state legislature candidate Wanda Logan challenging the constitutionality of the presidential election results in Pennsylvania. The petitioners’ legal team has asked me whether …

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Cruz Calls On SCOTUS To Hear Pennsylvania Appeal

Via press release from Sen. Ted Cruz: Today, an emergency appeal was filed in the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the election results in Pennsylvania. This appeal raises serious legal issues, and I believe the Court should hear the case on an expedited basis. The Pennsylvania Constitution requires in-person voting, except in narrow and defined circumstances. Late last year, the Pennsylvania …

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Republicans Rage Over Blocks On Fake Biden “Exposé”

The Hill reports: Some Republican lawmakers lashed out at Twitter and Facebook on Wednesday over the platforms’ decisions to limit the spread of a New York Post story about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. The GOP lawmakers characterized the moves as censorship and renewed their allegations that social media platforms have an anti-conservative bias. Sen. Josh Hawley …

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Cruz Denounces COVID Tests Before SCOTUS Hearings

The Washington Post reports: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) suggested Sunday that testing members of the Senator Judiciary Committee for the coronavirus before the start of Barrett’s confirmation hearings this week is a delay tactic by Democrats playing “procedural games.” Cruz himself is self-quarantining after coming into contact with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who announced that he tested positive for the …

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Ted Cruz Warns Election Could Be “Bloodbath” For GOP

CNBC reports: “If people are going back to work, if they’re optimistic, if they’re positive about the future, we could see a fantastic election: the president getting reelected with a big margin, Republicans winning both Houses of Congress,” Cruz said in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “But I also think if on Election Day, people are angry and they’ve …

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Ted Cruz Blocks Senate Resolution Honoring RBG

The Texas Tribune reports: A ceremonial resolution honoring the life of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg failed in the Senate on Tuesday after U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz objected to language his Democratic counterparts added noting her dying wish that a successor not be chosen until after the presidential inauguration early next year. “Unfortunately, the Democratic leader …

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Cruz: Bush V Gore Is Big Reason To Rush SCOTUS Vote

Sen. Ted Cruz writes for Fox News: Twenty years ago, I was part of the legal team that litigated Bush v. Gore and went to the Supreme Court. For thirty-six days, the country did not know who the president was going to be, and if we had had a four-four court it could have dragged on for weeks and months. …

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“Honored” Cruz Doesn’t Want To Be SCOTUS Justice

The Hill reports: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Sunday that he wouldn’t accept a Supreme Court nomination after President Trump included his name on a list of potential nominees. The Texas senator told Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that he would not be interested in joining the Supreme Court as a Trump nominee. “It is deeply honoring,” he told Maria …

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Sen. Ted Cruz: “Many Liberal Males Never Grow Balls”

The Hill reports: Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) on Friday responded to a tweet about a segment on gender reveal parties from Trevor Noah’s “The Daily Show,” saying “many liberal males never grow balls.” Cruz wrote his comment in a retweet of an article from conservative news website The Daily Wire, which critiqued Noah for railing against gender reveal parties. …

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Trump Puts Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton On SCOTUS Shortlist

Axios reports: President Trump unveiled Wednesday his revamped list of potential Supreme Court justices that includes 20 new names, including Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Neb.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Top aides and advisers to the president urged him months ago to put together a new list of justices ahead of Election Day to pump up his base and remind them why …

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Ted Cruz Is “Suffering” Over Princess Bride Event

NPR reports: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has made no secret of his affection for The Princess Bride – the 1987 cult classic starring Robin Wright. But he’s now making it clear he’s no fan of a plan by cast members to stump for Democrats in Wisconsin next week. According to a web post by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, several …

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Sen. Ted Cruz Roasted For Comment On “Abortion Pill”

USA Today reports: Sen. Ted Cruz came under fire from abortion-rights proponents after saying Wednesday on social media that pregnancy is not a “life-threatening illness” when the U.S. has the highest maternal death rate out of the world’s developed nations. Cruz made the comment in a tweet promoting a letter signed by himself and other Republican senators calling on the …

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Ted Cruz: Trump Didn’t Invite Me To The Convention

The New York Times reports: Four years ago, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas delivered the most stunning speech of the Republican National Convention, conspicuously declining to endorse Donald J. Trump, his former presidential primary rival, and urging viewers instead to “vote your conscience.” This time, well. “They didn’t ask me to participate,” Mr. Cruz said in a phone interview from …

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Portland “Bible Burning” Story Was Russian Disinfo

How utterly unsurprising: The truth was far more mundane. A few protesters among the many thousands appear to have burned a single Bible — and possibly a second — for kindling to start a bigger fire. None of the other protesters seemed to notice or care. Yet in the rush to paint all the protesters as Bible-burning zealots, few of …

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Cruz Spox Denies He Flouted Mask Rules On Flight

The Dallas Morning News reports: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is facing backlash over a photo on social media of the Texas Republican aboard an American Airlines flight without a required face mask. But the senator’s office said Cruz wasn’t flouting airline mandates and public health safeguards by taking off a mask, but “he temporarily removes the mask while eating or …

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