Posted on 07/19/2021 6:59:15 AM PDT by conservative98
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump accused Sen. Ted Cruz of election fraud, described him as “very unstable,” accused his father of aiding in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and his insulted his wife. For all his embarrassment, Cruz (and the rest of the GOP field) got crushed by Trump in the primary, and then he shamelessly groveled and worked to get the man who called his wife ugly elected to the presidency.
That, apparently, is Ted Cruz’s idea of “fun.”
Cruz was asked in a Thursday interview whether he was thinking about another run for president and laughed. “Well, sure. I’m certainly looking at it,” Cruz told Newsmax.
“I’ll tell you, 2016 was the most fun I’ve ever had in my life,” Cruz added. “We came incredibly close, we had an incredible grassroots army.”
Cruz did not, in fact, come “incredibly close.” Trump won nearly twice as many votes as Cruz did, and effectively wrapped up the race by mid-March, though Cruz continued to drag it into May and even, albeit briefly, into the convention. Ultimately, Cruz won fewer than a dozen Republican primaries; Trump won 41.
After Trump became president, Cruz went on a charm offensive to win back the support of his biggest presidential rival, and it worked: during one rally for Cruz’s re-election to Senate in 2018, Trump gave the senator formerly known as “Lyin’ Ted” a new moniker: “Beautiful Ted.” Cruz, in turn, was a main booster of the evidence-free effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election outcome, and he ultimately voted to reject certification of the results in Arizona and Pennsylvania after a pro-Trump mob stormed the halls of Congress.
If Cruz wants to take another shot at becoming president, he may once again have to go up against Trump
(Excerpt) Read more at vice.com ...
2024
Took him until September to reverse what he said at the convention.
Ted isn’t eligible to be president. As far as having his wife insulted I think Ted attacked Trump’s wife first. Though it was one of Cruz’s people (not him directly) which probably still got the okay from Ted. It was a while ago and I might not be 100% correct on this one though.
All children born abroad have a file describing how and when they got their citizenship, we need to see Ted’s.
Aaaannnnnd I stopped reading.
The headline? I agree. It’s laughable.
Why are you excerpting a blog post?
Why would Trump call Cruz’s wife ugly. I looked at pictures of her. Definitely not ugly.
Cruz is up for reelection in 2024, not 2022. He’s got decisions to make, and his reelection against Beto O’Rourke was much tighter than expected.
I like Cruz but I don’t think I see him as a president but then again I’m still confused how Biden was even VP much less where he’s at now
To be transparent, I was a staunch Cruz supporter early in 2016. I soured on him by late spring, and by July was totally on the Trump Train. In the SC primary, Cruz did NOT win one single county, not even in the Upstate (Greenville, Anderson, Spartanburg), the most conservatve area in SC. Trump won every primary in the state.
Yes and having 200 zillion people moving to Texas from California is not going to help.
the word conscience is in that september remark as well.
you drew your own conclusion.
Logical conclusion, he said it took him that long to decide.
Love him as a Senator. Ineligible for the presidency ( and he knows it). We need to start honoring our Constitution again, it was a remarkably good governance document. Meaning our Bill of Rights especially. Also the rest of it including no more ineligible Obamas or Harrisses
I think she is attractive. Unfortunately, there was an extremely unattractive photo that I believe was used as the basis for the negative remark(s).
Do you know he was still a Canadian citizen until 2014?
BS. How can you lie like that or be so ignorant as to not know what happened??
“Your memory of events is neither complete nor correct.”
Maybe you should review the video before passing false judgement...or maybe stop posting drunk.
He’s been a good Senator. He’d make an excellent SCOTUS justice but doesn’t want that job unfortunately.
Obviously he has no shot against Trump for the presidency or DeSantis if and when he chooses to run.
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