(Also on Planned Parenthood, Cruz made the highly offensive offhand comment that the motive of Robert Lewis Dear, who shot up a clinic, could have been a "transgendered leftist activist.")īeyond trying to defund the reproductive healthcare clinic, Cruz is a long-time advocate for overturning Roe v. The senator actually dismissed the need for Planned Parenthood because “we don’t have a rubber shortage in America”. (He seemingly forgot about a Christian terrorist who killed three people in Colorado a week earlier.) In 2015, Cruz claimed that President Obama should recognize the threat of “radical Islamic terrorism”… because Christians haven’t committed terrorist attacks for centuries. (Although he was later forced out of a restaurant because of it). “President Trump is a flash-bang grenade thrown into Washington by the forgotten men and women of America,” he said.īack in 2018, Cruz forcefully backed Brett Kavanaugh’s supreme court nomination without any real scrutiny despite credible sexual assault allegations against him. In 2018, he wrote a wrote a profile of Trump for Time magazine, where he praised him: Now Cruz has really changed his tune – or made a calculated choice – to be on Trump’s good side. (Side note, Cruz only decided to run for president after God sent his wife a sign.)Īs the 2016 Republican primary came down to just Cruz and Trump, Cruz accused him of being a “pathological liar”, as Trump insulted the senator’s wife, and claimed his father was somehow involved in the assassination of John Kennedy.Ĭruz, who Trump referred to as ‘Lyin’ Ted’, did not endorse Trump until the very last minute. It is somewhat strange that Ted Cruz has found himself on the Trumpian side of the 2020 election, as he and Trump were initially enemies. Senate Democrats have now filed an ethics complaint against him, saying he “lent legitimacy” to the violent mob. Yet Cruz still voted to oppose, along with a few others. Later when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and stopped the vote to confirm the electoral college tallies, some of those senators finally decided their mission was ridiculous. Here are some of the senator’s most egregious stances and quotes over the years:Ĭruz was among more than a dozen Republican senators and 150 members of the House planning to vote against Biden’s confirmation in a joint session of Congress on January 6 – without providing any actual evidence. Cruz! Quick question: do you also believe the Geneva Convention was about the views of the citizens… - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Ocasio-Cortez) If he agreed with me on every issue, I would hate him only 1 percent less.” I have plenty of problems with his politics, but truthfully, his personality is so awful that 99 percent of why I hate him is just his personality. The former Speaker of the House called him “ Lucifer in the flesh,” and even his college roommate once summed it up by saying,
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In 2016, fellow Republican senator Lindsey Graham “joked” that “if you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you”. The conservative hardliner is also known for being one of the most disliked politicians on Capitol Hill. In other words, the Republican from Texas pushed a willful misunderstanding of the naming of global agreement to his 1.9 million Twitter followers shortly after President Joe Biden rejoined the accord after his inauguration.Ĭruz is a familiar name in American politics, and even ran for president not so long ago.
Senator Ted Cruz once again made the news for, frankly, saying something ridiculous earlier this week – claiming the Paris Climate Agreement was only good for people living in France’s capital.
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