Ted Cruz

Senator Ted Cruz has emerged as one of the most prominent conservative voices to defend Gina Carano after she was fired from Lucasfilm and Disney for espousing controversial opinions. The Republican politician took to Twitter on Thursday and stated that it was a mistake to fire the actress as she was an asset to one […]

In a new interview, former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci ripped into former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies. Speaking for the MeidasTouch podcast on Friday, Scaramucci claimed that Trump “poisons” his associates. The businessman pointed to Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas as best examples of what associating […]

The Republican Accountability Project, a conservative group opposed to former President Donald Trump, has decided to take aim at his loyalists in the U.S. Congress. According to a Friday report from The Hill, the group — which was formed earlier this month — is going to spend approximately $1 million on billboards slamming Republican Party […]

President Donald Trump will not attend his successor Joe Biden’s inauguration, but some of his closest allies in the U.S. Congress reportedly will. Citing sources briefed on the matter, KXAN reported on Friday that Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas will attend the ceremony. Sen John Cornyn, Cruz’s fellow Texan, seemingly confirmed the reporting via […]

At a press conference on Friday, President-elect Joe Biden said that Republican Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas should not resign. According to a video clip from The Hill, which can be viewed below, Biden was asked point blank whether Hawley and Cruz should offer their resignations in light of Wednesday’s […]

In a series of tweets posted on Friday, conservative commentator Mike Cernovich ripped into President Donald Trump and weighed in on the apparent power struggle in the Republican Party. Earlier in the day, the commander-in-chief clarified that he will not be attending the inauguration of his successor, Democrat Joe Biden, who won both the popular […]

Conservative commentator Mike Cernovich believes that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is on track to secure the Republican Party’s nomination in the 2024 United States presidential election. “Ted Cruz is positioning himself to win the nomination in 2024,” he tweeted on Tuesday. “He was only guy I thought could beat Trump in 2016. Most don’t know […]

The notorious Zodiac killer’s uncrackable 340 cipher from November 1969 was finally cracked on Friday by a team of code-breakers from Australia, Belgium, and the United States. On the same day, Ted Cruz trended on social media for the news that the Supreme Court would not hear Donald Trump’s election fraud case he was set […]

In an interview released on Tuesday, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz argued that President Donald Trump’s attacks on Hunter Biden are ineffective, The Hill reported. Speaking with Axios reporter Jonathan Swan, Cruz suggested that most voters simply don’t care about the purported scandals involving Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son. To illustrate his point, Cruz pointed […]

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz took to Twitter on Monday evening to troll actor and artist Jim Carrey over a portrait he painted with his likeness, titled “Hellbound Class of 2020.” “Hey @JimCarrey can I get a copy of this for my office?” the Republican lawmaker asked. https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1315490147211776005 Cruz’s tweet was warmly received by his supporters, […]

Ted Cruz is warning that the 2020 election could be a “bloodbath” for Republicans if Americans don’t see some economic relief. The Texas senator appeared on CNBC on Friday to talk about the progress of talks for a new sweeping stimulus to combat the economic impact of the coronavirus, pointing the finger at Democrats and […]

Donald Trump said at a rally on Friday that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz could make a potential Supreme Court nominee one day. The president was apparently not aware of the announcement just shortly before that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. As The Inquisitr reported, Ginsburg died on Friday at the age of 87. Her […]

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz appeared on Face the Nation on Sunday and took aim at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her work on a new coronavirus relief proposal, which will allegedly be revealed in the Senate tomorrow. As reported by Breitbart, Cruz noted that the U.S. is currently facing two national crises: the coronavirus pandemic, […]

Ted Cruz took issue with what he saw as liberals trying to “cancel” food maker Goya with a boycott in response to the company’s CEO speaking out in support of President Donald Trump — just one year after Cruz himself advocated for a boycott of Nike for the company’s political stance supporting Colin Kaepernick. The […]

As tensions between social media platform Twitter and conservative voices grow, Texas Senator Ted Cruz just added to the potential woes of the tech giant by calling for a criminal investigation into the company. According to Axios, the move follows allegations that Twitter violated U.S. sanctions against Iran by giving leaders a social platform. After […]

Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel recently trolled Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for failing to properly understand one of the Kimmel show’s segments, HuffPost reports. The host produced a map and asked self-identified Republican voters to name a country on a map, and several failed to do so. Back in 2018, Kimmel posted a video […]

On Monday, a group of Republican senators introduced a resolution to dismiss articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump before the House of Representatives sends them over, reports The Hill. The resolution was introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, and it is meant to change the Senate’s impeachment rules. The current rules, according to […]

Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang re-upped his challenge to Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz to hit the basketball court for a little one-on-one — with the loser donating $5,000 to the winner’s apolitical charity of choice. While speaking to reporters on his campaign bus on December 10, Yang claimed that Cruz has been avoiding the […]

Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz, who recently released his 476-page report on the FBI’s investigation into Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday about the findings of the document. During the testimony, Texas Senator Ted Cruz addressed the findings, which revealed misconduct from lower-level FBI officials as well as abuses […]

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz recently suggested on NBC’s Meet the Press that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, supporting a theory that Donald Trump and his allies have been pushing amid the impeachment probe into the president. On MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, host Joe Scarborough slammed Cruz’s “shameless” defense of Trump while […]

During an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz told host Chuck Todd that he believes Ukraine “blatantly interfered” in the 2016 United States elections, Axios reports. According to Cruz, the media is pretending Russia is the sole perpetrator of interference in the election that led to Trump’s victory. “Ukraine […]

On Friday, Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas responded to Democrat Adam Schiff’s claims that President Donald Trump intimidated an impeachment witness, reports The Washington Examiner. According to Schiff, Trump intimidated former United States Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch during her testimony before the United States Congress. “We saw today witness intimidation in real-time by the president […]

Joining an extremely limited group of Republicans to publicly speak out against the president’s recent call for China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his family, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz made it crystal clear on Sunday that foreign countries have no business interfering in U.S. elections. According to Fox News, Cruz made the […]

Texas Senator Ted Cruz claims that he hasn’t yet given up on his dreams of becoming president, Newsweek reports. The 48-year-old claims that while he will not likely run in 2020, he still plans to run again in the future. According to experts, he is likely eyeing a 2024 run. “Look, I hope to run […]

One of the Republican Senate candidates running for office in New Hampshire, Bill O’Brien, received a major boost today after Texas Sen. Ted Cruz showered him with a full endorsement in a Thursday tweet, according to The Hill. “@OBrienForNH would make a Senator who would make the state of New Hampshire proud! I hope you […]

On Tuesday, a rare meeting between actress and outspoken gun reform activist Alyssa Milano and staunch pro-gun rights Sen. Ted Cruz took place in his Washington, D.C., office. The two met to discuss the always-controversial topic of gun violence and reform, according to Fox News. Milano was reportedly unsure that the meeting would actually happen, […]

As The Inquisitr previously reported, Ted Cruz recently dropped a biblical tweetstorm on Alyssa Milano after she asked where the Bible says owning a gun is a God-given right in her response to Rep. Matt Shaefer’s tweet. Per Fox News, Cruz cited the Bible to argue the right to self-defense and highlight the”unalienable rights” of […]

Per The Inquisitr, Texas Representative Matt Schaefer’s comments about turning to God to stop gun violence following the West Texas mass shooting drew lots of criticism. Fox News reports that one such critic was liberal activist Alyssa Milano, who is no stranger to controversial comments. “Can someone cite which passage of the Bible God states […]

In a Friday interview with PBS, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said that President Donald Trump could “absolutely” lose in 2020, predicting a “staggering Democratic turnout,” Newsweek reports. “I personally handicap the 2020 election as a coin flip; I think it’s about 50-50,” he said. “I want to see the president reelected, I’m working hard to […]

Newsweek reports that on Friday, during an interview with PBS’ Firing Line with Margaret Hoover, Sen. Ted Cruz was pressed by Hoover about whether he believes President Donald Trump could be defeated during the 2020 election. “Absolutely,” he said. “I personally handicap the 2020 election as a coin flip; I think it’s about 50-50.” “I […]

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is known these days as a staunch backer of President Donald Trump. The president appeared at a large rally for Cruz in his 2018 re-election campaign, Cruz authored Trump’s entry in Time‘s “100 Most Influential People” issue last year, and Cruz regularly defends the president on the floor of the […]

In a new documentary for HBO, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke comes clean with campaign staffers and his wife, admitting that he wasn’t the easiest guy to work with on the trail for Ted Cruz’s Senate seat. The Daily Beast says that in the new documentary, Running With Beto, director David Modigliani follows the presidential […]

Donald Trump’s idea of creating a new branch of the armed services called “Space Force” to combat threats from deep space may have drawn some laughs, but Texas Senator Ted Cruz thinks it will be a deadly serious reaction to a futuristic threat — space pirates. Cruz spoke out in favor of Space Force on […]

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and 2016 Republican candidate Carly Fiorina recently attacked Donald Trump in an interview, saying that the president views women as things to be used for political gain. According to The Hill, Fiorina added that the Republican party, in general, “routinely dismisses and diminishes women.” Fiorina was speaking with Zainab Salbi for Yahoo! […]

Beto O’Rourke took the high road when asked to respond to Trump’s mockery of his hand gestures when he is speaking. While speaking to a reporter with The Hill, the 2020 presidential hopeful suggested that it was time to move beyond the “pettiness” and focus on what’s best for the country. As The Inquisitr previously […]

As the election season preceding the 2020 presidential contest heats up, the rhetorical knives are being sharpened on both sides of the aisle in preparation for what promises to be a contentious race. And hot on the heels of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) announcing that he is officially throwing his hat in the ring – […]

Ted Cruz seemed on the verge of tears today as he discussed the fact that first responders had been furloughed during the partial government shut down. And Senator Michael Bennet took him to task for it in an impassioned speech that pointed out Cruz’s past support for federal shutdowns during the Obama administration. “These crocodile […]

Recently re-elected Texas Senator Ted Cruz is apparently going for a whole new look, per Slate, and apparently, it “looks great.” According to the somewhat reluctant reportage of writer Christina Cauterucci, who declares that she is “so sorry to report” the state of Cruz’s novel facial hair, the Republican senator is looking a bit more […]

Republican senators led by Ted Cruz introduced a bill aimed at funding President Donald Trump’s border wall. The WALL Act would give the government $25 billion toward construction and would be funded by what supporters call “loopholes” in the current immigration system, according to the Hill. “I have long called for building a wall as […]

A 74-year-old Texas man with strong roots in the Republican Party in Texas proudly declared himself a “white nationalist” on Twitter last week. Ray Myers is the founder of the Tea Party chapter in Kaufman County, Texas. He was part of Ted Cruz’s “Texas Leadership Team” in the state during the presidential primaries, but supported […]

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is denying that he drank all of Nine Inch Nails’ beer, despite frontman Trent Reznor’s claims to the contrary, Spin is reporting. Politicians often have to deny things in their careers; indiscretions with the opposite sex, shady business deals, that sort of thing. But until now, none has had to deny […]

Beto O’Rourke energized his supporters after a devastating loss to Ted Cruz in the Texas State Senate in quite the unorthodox way, by dropping an F-bomb on live television during his concession speech. Unapologetic in his response, the whoops moment was aired live and uncensored on MSNBC. “I want to thank this amazing campaign of […]

With the polls closing in Texas, results should start coming in on the hotly contested Senate race between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke. Texas voters have been highly motivated this election on both sides of the aisle. More voters are casting their ballot in early voting in 2018 than the entire number of votes cast […]

Those who want to follow live results from the Texas 2018 election will have several options to watch live voting totals from one of the nation’s most closely watched Senate races. In the Lonestar State, Republican incumbent Ted Cruz is facing a stiff challenge from Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke, who has drawn national attention to […]

Late night’s notable pooch pundit, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, made a triumphant return to television ahead of the midterm elections on Monday night, November 5. The appearance didn’t bode well for Senator Ted Cruz. Rolling Stone reports that Stephen Colbert invited the famed Conan O’Brien show puppet onto his own program, chronicling his trip […]

Comedian-actor Jim Carrey is a known critic of the Trump administration and Republican party. He isn’t afraid to speak his mind on social media and has stepped on a few toes with his caricature paintings of prominent political figures, including President Trump and Senator Lindsey Graham. His latest portrait features Ted Cruz and his Democratic […]

Ted Cruz has all the advantages in tomorrow’s election for the US Senate. Texas is so staunchly conservative that a Democratic presidential candidate has not carried the state of Texas for 42 years. None has won election in the senatorial or gubernatorial elections in 28 years. Cruz has made a career out of being a […]

The final polls in the 2018 Texas Senate race show a tightening contest and a hint that Donald Trump’s presence may have actually hurt Republican Ted Cruz. After a 2016 presidential run that came closer than anyone else of knocking off Donald Trump, Ted Cruz entered his Senate re-election race as a far-and-away favorite over […]

The 2018 Texas Senate race continues to tighten, with one pollster noting what it called a “notable shift” toward Beto O’Rourke in the final days as he has brought the race to a tie. O’Rourke was once considered a long-shot to beat the well-established Ted Cruz, but the Democratic candidate has built a grassroots coalition […]

Residents of Texas are clearly eager to vote during this year’s midterm elections and the latest figures show that a whopping 4.5 million Texans have already voted, eclipsing the total number of votes that were cast in the state during the midterm elections in 2014. As the Hill reports, as soon as early voting began […]