Tag Archives: Ted Cruz

CBS News reports: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and GOP front-runner Donald Trump sparred Thursday over North Carolina’s law requiring transgender individuals to use the bathroom that corresponds with their birth gender. Earlier in the day, Cruz said the country has “gone off the deep end” over the issue of transgender bathroom use. “As you know, my daughters are 5 and …

Via the Associated Press: Donald Trump is now the only Republican candidate with any chance of clinching the nomination before the convention. Ted Cruz was mathematically eliminated Tuesday after Trump’s big win in the New York primary. Trump won at least 89 of the 95 delegates at stake. John Kasich won at least three and Cruz was in danger of …

The polls closed in New York state minutes ago and as expected Donald Trump has been projected to win, although under the GOP’s very complicated rules we won’t know how the delegates are allocated for at least a couple of hours. If Ted Cruz fails to take 20% of total vote, he’ll walk away empty-handed. On the Democratic side, exit …

Via USA Today: Just when it seems that Rep. Peter King must have exhausted his venom for Ted Cruz, he fires off another poisoned dart. “I hate Ted Cruz, and I think I’ll take cyanide if he ever got the nomination,” the New York Republican told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Tuesday, as voters prepared to cast ballots in the state’s …

Donald Trump is expected to win tomorrow’s New York primary, possibly by the largest margin he’s ever gotten. But he just couldn’t resist lobbing another bomb tonight at Ted Cruz, who isn’t even campaigning in New York today and will likely finish in third place behind John Kasich.

Politico reports: An all-out internal power struggle has erupted at the Republican National Committee, just days before a critical party gathering in Florida, as the head of the RNC’s powerful rules committee has accused his own party leadership of a “major breach of trust” in trying to block a rule change that he said would make it harder to reopen …

ABC News reports: Sen. Ted Cruz today invoked the protections included in the Constitution when a gay man asked the Republican presidential candidate about his work protecting the rights of gay voters. Responding to a question from Todd Calogne, a married gay man who is a registered Republican and owner of a pizza parlor in New York City, Cruz said …

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The Associated Press reports: Ted Cruz has nailed down all 14 Wyoming Republican delegates up for grabs at the state party convention Saturday, leaving Donald Trump facing yet another loss in a string of defeats in Western states. Saturday’s sweep follows Cruz’s victory last month in Wyoming, when he scored 9 of 12 available delegates at county conventions. Trump and …

Earlier this week Mother Jones reported that Ted Cruz defended a ban on dildos while Texas Solicitor General. Today Cruz promises that your jackrabbits and double-endeds are safe under his presidency. Buzzfeed reports: Cruz, asked by WABC radio host and Curtis Silwa if he would ban “the sale of sexual toys, dildo as anything that sexually stimulates you,” answered that …

Ted Cruz today released a New York primary ad which attack Donald Trump for his earlier praise of New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio, who is apparently responsible for a Gotham-wide crime wave, construction accidents, and topless women in Times Square. Watch below.

Mediaite recaps: Ted Cruz made an appearance on The Tonight Show this evening and took a phone call from Jimmy Fallon‘s Donald Trump. Cruz clearly seemed very disinterested in all the advice Trump was giving him. Trump confronted him on supposedly stealing Colorado. Cruz patiently explained the system, and Trump suggested that maybe “the people were so high they completely …

USA Today reports: Kids of presidential candidates say the darnedest things, like that video exists of their father sporting a pink boa and comical underwear, and that said video will be distributed to parents of their classmates. Take, for instance, 8-year-old Caroline Cruz, who said as much Wednesday during a town hall with her dad on CNN.  Joined by his …

The Hill reports: Ted Cruz is leading a conservative effort to end any chance of a lame-duck congressional session at the end of the year. Cruz, a freshman senator from Texas running for president, and right-leaning groups see huge dangers in having a session after the November elections, which they think could be used to move legislation backed by President …

Yesterday they endorsed Hillary. From their editorial: New York’s 2.7 million registered Republican voters can break the fever that torments their party by voting for principled, pragmatic conservatism in the April 19 presidential primary. By his record of accomplishment in public life, by the credibility of his plans, by a temperament that marries a small government outlook with can-do effectiveness, …

Last weekend Ted Cruz boldly lied about Pastor Kevin Swanson’s call to execute gays, saying that he’d denounced Swanson’s words as soon he heard them. In fact, for months Cruz refused so much as comment about Swanson despite many questions from the media. Then, earlier today, Right Wing Watch reported that Glenn Beck yesterday told his audience that he’s never …

The Hill reports: Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Wednesday released a new radio ad attacking New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ahead of the Empire State’s April 19 primary. The 60-second ad, titled “Nerve,” starts by referring to comments made by de Blasio attacking the Texas senator. “I think Ted Cruz is out of touch with New York …

Mother Jones today took a look back at the time when then-Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz defended a state law which outlawed selling dildos. They write: The brief insisted that Texas, in order to protect “public morals,” had “police-power interests” in “discouraging prurient interests in sexual gratification, combating the commercial sale of sex, and protecting minors.” There was a “government” …

Via Mediaite: We at Mediaite were the first to lay out all the creepy times Donald Trump has joked about how he would sleep with Ivanka Trump if she wasn’t, you know, his daughter. Now, those jokes feature in an attack ad being aired on Western New York’s radio waves. “In 2006, he said on The View, ‘If Ivanka weren’t …

As most of you surely know, last fall Ted Cruz attended a religious attended a “religious liberty” conference at which Pastor Kevin Swanson called for executing homosexuals shortly before interviewing Cruz on the same stage. Cruz had been warned about Swanson’s track record by CNN’s Jake Tapper before the event and after three weeks of ignoring questions from the media, …