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    Könnte Ted Cruz in Texas tatsächlich verlieren?


    Könnte Ted Cruz in Texas tatsächlich verlieren?

    https://www.newsweek.com/texas-senate-election-ted-cruz-colin-allred-1957284

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    1. zsreport on

      This Texan sure as fuck hopes he does. I’ve never voted for him, never will vote for him. I look forward to voting for Colin Allred when early voting starts here.

    2. Omnibuschris on

      Doubtful in a Presidential year. Trump is worshipped like a diety by Republicans here. Democratic cities don’t vote. Hope I’m proven wrong cause all my homies hate Ted Cruz.

    3. RickKassidy on

      That’s what they promised six years ago. It would be neat, but Texas has let us down before.

    4. RickKassidy on

      That’s what they promised six years ago. It would be neat, but Texas has let us down before.

    6. ddr1ver on

      Doubtful. Republicans dropped the “decent human being” standard for elected officials a long time ago.

    7. 54sharks40 on

      Don’t underestimate Texans’ willingness to screw themselves over.  

    8. dblan9 on

      As long as Ted Cruz represents Texas I will have to say Texas BBQ is mediocre at best with unseasoned, over cooked, dried out meat. Prove me wrong and vote!!!

    10. Gold-Perspective-699 on

      We need to start putting his real name Rafael Cruz cause he himself doesn’t like when people use the wrong name so we should follow that.

    11. TrooperJohn on

      He *could*. It’s not something I would be counting on.

      Cruz is an incumbent, with the built-in advantages that brings along. Voter suppression in Texas is brutal and systemic.

      But if Cruz agreed to a debate with Allred, he must be feeling some heat. Secure incumbents don’t usually engage their challengers.

      So while it’s not impossible, I wouldn’t get my hopes up too high.

    16. palmburntblue on

      He won’t lose, but I watch a lot of television and I feel like he is advertising from a losing position. His ads are nothing more than run of the mill right wing culture warring. 

    18. DramaticWesley on

      Just a reminder: we are all fully aware Republicans are going to try to screw up the voting on voting day, so take full advantage of early voting. You can early vote at any location in the county you are registered at.

    19. Most-Artichoke6184 on

      If Ted Cruz loses in Texas, Kamala Harris is going to win in a landslide.

    20. TheThirteenthCylon on

      Bet your ass if politics wasn’t so polarized right now, Texas would be purple.

    21. Hyperion1144 on

      Probably not. But if the republicans have to burn resources saving him, that’s less money they have to spend in actual swing states.

    23. madrasdad on

      All I’ve ever heard is that everyone hates Ted Cruz. How’d he get reelected in the first place? I assume because there’s an R next to his name on the ballot.

    25. Icy_Bake_8176 on

      He deserves to lose. This guy openly sued and won to allow larger payback of personal campaign “loans”. It’s the biggest grift and admittedly, they are all guilty of it, but he took it further, and it just scream self-entitled prick.

      You and I invest in ourselves to get hired for a job at our own expense. But politicians can “lend” their money to their own campaign as a loan, earn interest on their loan, and pay themselves back with your donor money.

      In 2018, Cruz used his own money towards campaigning and rightfully so. The law at the time said that candidates can only pay themselves back up to $X. Well, he sued and won getting paid back the balance.

      It was only $10K that he had left to pay himself for. Not a lot of money, but that wasn’t the point. Now any one of them can pay themselves back using donor money, and once again, they bastardized free speech protections claiming limiting the amount that can be repaid, limits free speech (the fuck? You willingly “applied” for a job)

    26. sickjesus on

      Make sure that you, your fam and friends are all registered to vote if you’re in Texas.

      Votetexas.gov

      We went blockwalking yesterday and discovered that a woman who has been voting in every election since she legally became a US citizen couldn’t be found in the system we were using.

      I’m not 100% sure if it was just the system, but we had the relative type in the name – that was accurate with past voters – and not a trace came up. Now they’re on the journey of making sure she’s registered and didn’t get purged through whatever voter suppression stuff paxton and those cucks are up to.

    27. UziMunkey on

      Yes. Texas doesn’t have a Republican problem it has a low voter turnout problem. Vote. Turn Texas blue

    28. BernadetteSueSena on

      Texan here – Cruz is such a uniquely awful person/politician with no real constituency other than the R next to his name. Allred is hammering him with ads on the border and the whole “Cancun Ted” thing but I’m skeptical the Texas democrats have the infrastructure to pull this off. Fingers crossed.

    31. smiama6 on

      Not a chance. We saw polls that said Amy McGrath was neck-and-neck with Mitch McConnell and it turned into a blow out. We saw polls that said Jamie Harrison and Lindsay Graham were neck-and-neck and it was a blowout. I’ll believe it when I see it. Texas is backward and full of loyal Republican voters – and Abbott has done everything he could to purge voter rolls, suppress votes and disenfranchise. I don’t trust Texas Republicans one bit.

    34. iymcool on

      We’ve been sloooooowly moving blue for years. Beto was the loudest shakeup.

      However, with Allred, we might finally be able to oust Cruz. If that happens, it may be the first in a series of dominoes to fall that finally topple the terroist-like hold the GOP has on Texas.

      First Cruz,

      then Paxton,

      then Abbott.

      A blue Texas would put it on the path to being one of the BEST states to live in.

    36. atxDan75 on

      If republicans would just realize he’s done NOTHING for Texas and is literally the worst human we’d have a chance. I’m seeing Cruz attack ads in Austin, they are pathetic. “Alred doesn’t know the difference between boys and girls”. That’s Cruz’s attack. This is what he’s all about, culture wars. Not the real issues the state is facing.

    37. TheBodyPolitic1 on

      I’m hopeful since Allred is tied with Cruz, but Texas is a crooked state and the republicans there will sabotage the election to prevent Allred from winning.

    38. moodswung on

      The fact that they will likely vote for Ted Cruz again should be a sign of how bad the anti-democrat rhetoric is down there. It’s not about liking this asshole, it’s about voting against the Dem.

    39. BigNorseWolf on

      Texan republicans “hah. What are the women going to do. Abortion isn’t legal in the next 5 states over either.

      Texan women “Well… its legal in mexico. Or we could MAKE it legal in Texas…

      Texas republicans “Wait.. you can vote?”

    40. Sandra_fine on

      Texas politics are shifting, and Cruz could face a real challenge this time.

    41. Early-Juggernaut975 on

      I wish but this football has been Lucied too many times for me to get excited about the polling. ☹️

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