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Ted Cruz: Trump tweets have 'coarsened discussion'
The Hill ^ | - 07/28/20 11:22 AM EDT | ZACK BUDRYK

Posted on 07/28/2020 7:38:44 PM PDT by conservative98

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Monday said he believed many of President Trump’s tweets have “coarsened discussion,” but praised the president for having “a backbone."

“So many of us are so sick and tired of Republicans that roll over and whimper when encountering the slightest resistance. And I think probably the best characteristic about the president is he’s got a backbone. And he will fight,” Cruz told conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt, when asked how the president has changed the Republican Party.

“Now I will say ... I wish his tone and some of the things he said were different,” Cruz added. “Many of the tweets I’m not a fan of, and I do think it has coarsened discussion. So that is a less-than-positive development.”

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To: conservative98

F your conscience, TC.


21 posted on 07/28/2020 8:05:34 PM PDT by coaster123 (Distrust everyone under 60.)
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To: Songcraft

What the hell is wrong with that guy?
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He’s a FRAUD and owes too many folks.
He’ll be having public TDS shortly when they start pulling his big strings.


22 posted on 07/28/2020 8:05:40 PM PDT by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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To: conservative98

They have coarsened it, but it needed to be coarsened. We’re closing in on endgame, and it’s gonna be a real b!tch.


23 posted on 07/28/2020 8:06:18 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: Songcraft

“ What the hell is wrong with that guy? ”

He’s a U.S. Senator...worst human beings (loosely speaking) that have ever walked the Earth.


24 posted on 07/28/2020 8:08:47 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: conservative98

Canada Ted, like Rand Paul, is one or those prominent political leaders that on any given day makes you so proud, and the next day makes you hurl.


25 posted on 07/28/2020 8:11:34 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: conservative98

We gotta fight even in the same camp


26 posted on 07/28/2020 8:12:16 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special: Half baked: 50c)
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To: conservative98

Lyn’ Ted needs to STFU and resign so that Gov. Abbot can appoint a Trump supporting Republican.


27 posted on 07/28/2020 8:12:57 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
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To: conservative98

Raphael thinks he’s so clever.


28 posted on 07/28/2020 8:13:43 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: conservative98

Awe jeez I love Cruz this is a hit piece


29 posted on 07/28/2020 8:14:19 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special: Half baked: 50c)
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To: Songcraft

“What the hell is wrong with that guy?”
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He’s an overly religious holier-than-thou type who doesn’t want to be president as much as he wants to be the
“Christian” Taliban-in-chief. He’s nuts.

The media would have a field day with Cruz. No wonder he nearly lost in 2018.


30 posted on 07/28/2020 8:14:42 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Wipe ANTIFA off the face of the Earth. Indict Soros, too...their sugar daddy.)
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To: Songcraft

His ambition is destroying him as a decent Senator.
All he can think about is his own usurpation.
Cubans born in Canada are just as eligible as Anwar al-Awlaki’s kids, born in Yemen to one citizen parent,


31 posted on 07/28/2020 8:16:38 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Songcraft

You are taking the medea bait


32 posted on 07/28/2020 8:16:40 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special: Half baked: 50c)
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To: conservative98

You don’t meet with success by being wishy-washy, and saying dubious things.

Get to the point and do as you say, and don’t be spineless.

Democrats hate a fighter, and they’ll do everything they can to destroy anyone that doesn’t agree with them. Democrats leave ‘bodies’ behind with everything they do. In many cases, actual dead bodies can be found on those trails that democrats have walked through. The dead bodies and injured bodies that we are witnessing now in the riots, are all part of the radical methods that democrats use, and the names of the groups they use to carry out their dastardly deeds (BLM, Antifa, etc), are meant to disguise the people behind those attacks, but the real name of those in control is the democrat party.

Antifa and BLM are just splinter groups of the democrat party, and some have even gone as far as to call them ‘myths’.


33 posted on 07/28/2020 8:17:21 PM PDT by adorno
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To: BobL
Looks likes Cruz is back to his NeverTrumper mode.

Doesn't look like that to me by any stretch of the imagination. He criticized the president on one thing while also praising him. Cruz has consistently been one of Trump's strongest supporters since he took office. Slavish devotion to Trump is not a good thing - even Trump admitted just yesterday that he sometimes wishes he'd waited before tweeting.
34 posted on 07/28/2020 8:18:46 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: conservative98

This is coming from The Hill. I’ll keep my powder dry for now.


35 posted on 07/28/2020 8:21:44 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: conservative98
Yeah, that is when I dropped supporting Cruz, and went full Trump, when Cruz threw a fig leaf covering to the Bolsheviks in Chicago who shutdown a Trump rally in 2016. Cruz made some mealy mouthed comment that 'Sure, the Bolsheviks were wrong, but Candidate Trump said mean things to incite the anger'... I understood that Cruz was running against Trump, and certainly I'd expect opponents to throw mud at each other --- but NEVER when it would support Bolshevik scum who are trying to destroy our Country. And that is what Cruz did.
I didn't read this post, and perhaps the headline doesn't match Cruz's comments (it wouldn't be the first time that the Fake Media prevaricated in their attempt to stir up animosity in the Republican ranks) - but Cruz's comments in 2016 defending the mob in Chicago still sticks in my craw...
36 posted on 07/28/2020 8:25:14 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: conservative98

No, political discussion was coarsened and corrupted for years by leftist Democrats and their main stream media allies. When President Trump arrived on the scene it was the first time since President Reagan that Republicans called out the media and the left.


37 posted on 07/28/2020 8:27:29 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: conservative98

If Trump has ‘coarsened’ the national dialogue, it’s only because that’s what the national dialogue deserves. It had already been degraded before President Trump ever entered politics. The rules were - lie, suppress, mischaracterize, smear, and inflame people’s passions, but do it in a ‘dignified’ way with all the veneer of fairness that phony objectivity can buy.

Trump speaks the truth in a way that deprives his opponents of the dignity that they don’t deserve.


38 posted on 07/28/2020 8:33:07 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: conservative98

Shut up Ted you doche bag.


39 posted on 07/28/2020 8:37:48 PM PDT by datricker (the war of 2024 will be fought at 2.4Ghz stock up on aluminium foil now!)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

“Doesn’t look like that to me by any stretch of the imagination.”

Maybe you don’t think of him as a NeverTrumper, but he certainly followed what their script by giving the media a GREAT headline to trash Trump with, rather than getting with him privately.


40 posted on 07/28/2020 8:37:59 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here)
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