Originally published at: Cruz giggles as Allred exposes his Jan 6 involvement - Boing Boing
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I guess someone did read Ted Cruz’s book!
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Cruz responded with a nervous giggle, his face reddening.
It hightens Cancun Cruz’s resemblance to another greasy fascist who got red-faced and giggly when he was called out on his BS by better men.
ETA: it’s worth noting that there’s an on-going effort by some conservatives (probably including Cruz) to rehabilitate McCarthy going back to William F. Buckley. It’s been a hard slog for them to make this thoroughly unpleasant character sympathetic, but the farther we get from the height of his power the more traction they’re getting. And of course, one of McCarthy’s top lieutenants was also the mentor of Il Douche.
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One difference being that at the height of his power McCarthy had his own Trump-esque cult of followers and sycophants, while Cruz couldn’t even accomplish that…
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I didn’t catch the debate. In part because I can’t stand Cruz 
Sounds like Allred did well though! He’s definitely a moderate Democrat. Far more moderate than I would prefer but seems to have some of the most important things straight. I’ll be very happy if he defeats Cruz and will be voting for Allred. Of course, I’d vote for a slime mold over Cruz.
Texas Tribune is a decent outlet: Colin Allred, Ted Cruz do battle in Texas Senate debate | The Texas Tribune
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Gold…
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Cruz now uses the idea that Jan 6th was merely a protest, not an assault. While hiding in the supply closet, was he hiding from the Capital Police? No. He was hiding from the GOP mob he now publicly defends. He knows the truth, he just continuously lies about it.
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did this debate performance move the needle at all? would love for blobfish to be defeated
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According to some polls (usual disclaimers apply), somehow the sweaty creep managed to widen his lead after the debate.
I’ve long ago given up on any rational explanation why any Texan would vote for him beyond having an “R” after his name on the ballot. As for why he keeps winning, I assume it’s the usual mix of gerrymandering and disenfranchisement and other cheats.
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Was it the linked poll you are referring to? Because the debate was last night and that poll used responses between Sept. 26 and Oct. 10, 2024.
It should be way too early to have any polls on the effect of the debate between Allred and Cruz. Unless it was one of those pretend-undecided panels giving their take
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According to The Hill the poll was released today. So you’re that it may not reflect the debate performance.
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Baffling how he expanded his lead. Yuck yuck yuck
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I won’t visit to check this but
His debate against Democrat Rep. Colin Allred went so stinkingly that hashtag SupplyClosetTed is trending number two on Twitter, uh oh!
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Gerrymandering really doesn’t apply because it’s the whole state that will be voting. It really is just the more rural and older voters in the state. You can see it if you drive through rural Texas. Small towns are dying, old unprofitable farm land is being replaced with wind and solar farms (I kinda wish I had stopped to take a picture of “The Wind Farms are Killing our Communities” signs I kept seeing when I drove through west Texas last week.). Anyone saying that they can return things to the way they were or scapegoat the cities for the problems of rural Texas is going to win a large part of the rural vote.
That being said, Cruz isn’t really liked among even among Republicans in the state. Texas’ other US senator John Cornyn kept his seat in 2020 wining with a 9.6% margin.
The reason why Beto lost by 2.6% in 2018 is likely because wealthy / college educated Republicans in the Suburbs of Dallas and Houston see Cruz as the scumbag he is and the rural voter turnout was less with it not being a presidential election year.
It’s really hard to say what it is going to be like this year. My gut is telling me Cruz is likely going to do better this year because it’s a presidential year. However, the cities have grown quite a bit, but I’m not sure it’s quite to that extent yet.
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Um… no, that’s not the case at all. There is certainly knock-on effects from gerrymandering, especially of the kind found in Texas, which was highly aggressive in nature (and implemented with veiled threats to Democratic voters). People who don’t believe that their vote will have any impact locally, will often not come out to vote at all, meaning that they are less likely to come out for statewide elections.
It’s a return of Jim Crow principles, where race was never explicitly stated in state laws, but were employed to keep Black voters out of the voting booth, in part by making voting as pointless as possible, and giving the state cover for denying Black voters the ballot.
These are not discrete fields that have no impact on the other. They are connected, and gerrymandering IS a form of voter suppression that should go, because of it’s impact on all elections. To say other wise is to misunderstand what is happening with the attack on voting.
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I saw this yesterday I think. Man, if anyone was honest about it, there is no way for Cruz to recover from that.
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Right, it couldn’t have anything to with equity firms buying up key local businesses like banks, then cost-cutting them out of existence. Agri-monopolies, giving them one place to sell to, who can set the terms they like. Each Walmart cratering local retailers for a considerable distance…
It’s the cities! /s
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I just found out about the way Allred responded to the anti-transgender ads. I’m pissed about it. I will still vote for him but 
Must we have this argument again? Gerrymandering absolutely effects statewide races in multiple ways.
- Depriving people of the ability to affect their local political representatives makes them far less likely to vote. Why bother when you’ve been disenfranchised on every level except US senator and US president and VP?
- It also robs the minority party of getting their people the experience and exposure necessary to compete on a statewide level. This hurts them in statewide races
- All those local officials gerrymandered into office have real effects on other voting rights. Like where polling locations are placed, how many get placed where, whether the county will allow voting in any precinct or only a person’s home precinct.
- In Texas, in particular, extraordinarily awful voting restrictions were passed into law and signed in to law largely because gerrymandering gives the GOP control over both houses of the state legislature.
- The local officials are also in charge of maintaining the voter rolls. Which means GOP dominated areas kick people off more regularly, without giving them a chance to correct things, and choose to “clean out” the registrations of POC.
Gerrymandering does not directly affect a statewide race. But all these indirect effects, and the many more I just don’t have the patience to type up, do have a strong effect on statewide races as well as US President and VP.
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