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Ted Cruz, progressive hero? Texan defies hard-liner image with AOC cooperation and more
Fox News ^ | 7/22/2019 | Alex Pappas | Fox News

Posted on 07/22/2019 7:23:09 AM PDT by conservative98

Something's changed about Ted Cruz – and it’s not just the beard.

First, there was the common ground with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Then, there was the push for people to donate supplies to detained migrants at the border. Then, Cruz called out Tennessee for honoring a Confederate Army general with an ugly past.

Is the senator from Texas – the unapologetic conservative who ran for president in 2016 saying Republicans win by painting “in bold colors, not pale pastels”– making a conscious effort to expand his appeal beyond conservatives?

“I do think it’s intentional,” said Brendan Steinhauser, a Republican consultant based in Austin who was active in the Tea Party movement.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Texas
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1 posted on 07/22/2019 7:23:09 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Mark Levin brought this up on Friday, a Senator wanting to make deals with AOC and the consequences of this, but didn't mention Ted's name.

2 posted on 07/22/2019 7:25:23 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Ambition is his middle name, Constitution be damned.


3 posted on 07/22/2019 7:27:09 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: conservative98

He will lose more than he gains.


4 posted on 07/22/2019 7:27:28 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: conservative98

No... nothing has changed with him. He is just another globalist, and more loyal to Hispanic identity than to our nation.

Always was


5 posted on 07/22/2019 7:28:53 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: conservative98

Maybe he’s thinking with a different head.


6 posted on 07/22/2019 7:29:19 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: conservative98

I am not a big Cruz fan here, but I don’t see anything wrong with what he is doing. We should encourage our law makers to work with each other. Better then what is going on now.

Or maybe he is just attracted to crazy women?


7 posted on 07/22/2019 7:30:43 AM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: fruser1

Maybe he’s thinking with a different head.


Would explain the beard

Trying to make himself look older so he can be more appealing to the 25-35 year olds....


8 posted on 07/22/2019 7:32:18 AM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: conservative98

He probably got spooked by his close re-election against Beto.

So now he wants to cultivate a more moderate image.


9 posted on 07/22/2019 7:34:15 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: conservative98

He probably got spooked by his close re-election against Beto.

So now he wants to cultivate a more moderate image.


10 posted on 07/22/2019 7:34:16 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: conservative98

You can’t make deals with Democrats in 2019.
There is no sane basis for compromise with them,
and they can’t be trusted to live up to their end
of any bargain.


11 posted on 07/22/2019 7:37:53 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“He probably got spooked by his close re-election against Beto.”

Hopefully, Texas will have a Conservative Alternative to Scruze in six years. But my worry is that by that time, Texas will have turned blue and actually elect a Beto clone.


12 posted on 07/22/2019 7:41:17 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Now he is pandering to the left by saying Trump has only a 50/50 chance of being reelected. When was the last time a Democrat declared they only have a 50/50 chance of winning the presidency? Even if they thought it, they would not say it.


13 posted on 07/22/2019 7:44:22 AM PDT by Russ (I)
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To: conservative98

The guy always struck me as a slimeball. When he pulled that stunt at the convention, he showed his true self.


14 posted on 07/22/2019 7:44:34 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: conservative98

Lyn’ Ted will be openly pushing increased H1B and amnesty soon, mark my words.


15 posted on 07/22/2019 7:46:06 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: PghBaldy

And when he launched that ad about melania. slimeball...


16 posted on 07/22/2019 7:47:05 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

That covers about 90% of D.C. it’s how things got so bad so fast in the last 75 years,the swamp drainer is at work we are seeing things that never made the news before he took office.


17 posted on 07/22/2019 7:49:03 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Maybe he thinks he can turn her to the light side. But She’d have to be stupid not to understand that the Democrat goons in the so-called entertainment” industry would destroy her.

Cortez isn’t stupid, is she?


18 posted on 07/22/2019 7:50:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Beto won 32 counties out of 254. They were the Rio Grande counties
along with those in or around the major cities.


19 posted on 07/22/2019 7:50:33 AM PDT by deport
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To: conservative98

Jesse Helms cosponsored legislation so Ted Kennedy.


20 posted on 07/22/2019 7:51:39 AM PDT by Pilsner
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