U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has one of those rare opportunities to redeem his entire political career by supporting President Trump on January 6, 2021. This is a rare second-chance; let us hope Ted Cruz has the grace, humility and strength to see it.
In 2016, during the RNC convention to nominate Donald Trump, a bitter and divisive Ted Cruz self-immolated on a national stage.
The collapse was so catastrophic when Cruz attempted to return to the convention donor suite in the Cleveland auditorium he was kicked out by Cruz’s main financial backers, Robert and Rebekah Mercer. Senator Cruz never recovered.
Two years later, having lost the base of support from a MAGA community that did not forget, Senator Ted Cruz was on his back facing a Senate challenge from democrat Beto O’Rourke and he needed President Trump to rally in Texas on his behalf. Trump came to Texas in 2018 and lifted Cruz to a narrow victory.
Two years later, with the electoral challenge now established for January 6, Ted Cruz has the rare opportunity, a second-chance, to elevate himself back to a political position of influence… While we await the outcome, here is the 2016 reminder.
Before Ted Cruz walked onto the 2016 convention stage in Cleveland, Donald Trump had a very good idea what was about to happen. Without pre-planning, or staged set-ups, Trump knew what to expect because Donald Trump has an exceptional political sense; he knows how to read his adversaries.
Throughout his life, Ted Cruz has exhibited a character of division; entirely tone-deaf to the people he encounters and leaves in his wake. Those who knew Cruz in grade school and college have talked about how Cruz’s abrasive personality made him a lonely person despite his intellect.
Toxic abrasiveness is the same reason why President George W Bush would not elevate Ted Cruz in the White House 2001-2005. Attorney Cruz was 30-years-old and arrogantly thought he should have been a candidate for Attorney General; unfortunately, no-one else did.
Years later it was toxic abrasiveness that drove candidate Ted Cruz to run for Senate in 2011 – to show those same political voices he carried a stronger political tool box than he was ever given credit for.
That same toxic abrasiveness in 2013 is what created a lonely, divisive and ineffective Senator -with zero legislative accomplishment- who announced a presidential bid only 2 years after election to the Senate. And it’s that same personality issue that creates a need for a disguise to be successful.
Apologies to baseball fans, but Ted Cruz is the political equivalent of Ty Cobb. Despite skills, no teammate could get along with either S.O.B.
Donald Trump can sense these things the way most of us can sense the same given enough time around similar characters. As a consequence when Trump invited Ted Cruz to speak at the RNC Convention, he knew what was most likely going to happen. After all, it was entirely predictable.
The only risk to Donald Trump was if Cruz broke character and came to Cleveland to deliver a unity speech. That would have elevated Cruz. However, by mid-afternoon yesterday any doubts about what direction Cruz was going to take were easily dispatched by looking at his actual engagements.
Senator Ted Cruz returned to the national political scene exactly where he left off after losing Indiana. A review of Cruz twitter feed merely confirmed the same cast of characters, the same tone, the same delivery and the same predictable approach heading into the evening.
The only thing that remained last night was for Trump to see how far Cruz was willing to expose himself, to display his toxic abrasiveness on a national stage.
One can only imagine candidate Trump standing out of sight at the back of the auditorium listening to the delivery. Trump listening as Cruz began to describe how divided we are as a nation. Listening to Cruz explain how the values of each state have no commonality.
Yep, exactly as anticipated – After the proselytizing introduction about the police officer’s families killed in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Senator Ted Cruz was delivering a self-absorbed disunity speech at a Republican National Convention and referencing his own campaign: “our campaign”.
The building division was only moderately interrupted when Cruz looked directly into the 12 o’clock camera nineteen minutes later and said:
[19:00] …”and to those listening, please, don’t stay home in November”…
APPLAUSE (audience thinks he’s messaging the #NeverTrumpers to not sit out) – But, wait for it….
APPLAUSE CONTINUES (audience still thinking he’s messaging the #NeverTrump)… But, wait for it…..
Boom, there it is:
….”if you love our country, and you love our children as much as I know that you do, stand and speak and vote your conscience – vote for candidates up and down the ticket, who you trust to defend our freedom and to defend the constitution”….
Wait, wut?
The divisive, too-cute-by-half “vote your conscience, up and down the ticket” commentary came out exactly as Trump thought it would three weeks earlier when he offered the speaking engagement.
That’s the moment toxic Cruz lost the audience, and abrasive Ted self-detonated.
The audience chants: “we want Trump, we want Trump, we want Trump”!
But it wasn’t until Cruz gave the snarky response..:
“I appreciate the enthusiasm of the New York delegation”
..that visible loud BOOS commenced.
And they grew louder, and louder, and louder. As the entire audience began to recognize the arrogance of slighting the home-team delegation for the Republican Nominee for President, at his own convention.
From that moment, Cruz lost the entire convention floor. Chaos began as the pontificating abrasiveness continued with few paying attention to the speaker’s remarks.
It was the snarky slight to the New York delegation that affirmed everything Trump thought would possibly happen.
It was also the arrogant poke in the eye to the audience that finally brought Spartacus Trump into visibility within the auditorium as the audience shouted “Endorse Trump”.
Toxic Ted Cruz left the stage amid a thunderous chorus of boos, having diminished himself spectacularly on the grandest political stage of them all.
The entire audience, and millions of people around the world saw first hand the toxic and abrasive nature that is Ted Cruz unmasked. WATCH – Prompted
The rest, as they say, IS HISTORY.
Only Cruz sycophants were left believing Ted Cruz had any political viability left at all.
Much like the White House in 2001, the republican base won’t forget the sheer audacity and arrogance. Worse yet, donors could never trust a candidate willing to expose his own conceited nature on such a large scale.
Senator Ted Cruz ended his political career the same way he came into it, all alone.
January 6, 2021 is a very rare opportunity.
Here’s this FWIW: https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1345516490846576641
Pence’s first comments about this. Its troubling that he waited so damn long to issue this statement.
I notice that Pence makes a point of talking about lawful actions the President should take. Not mentioning the dozens of illegal actions that occurred and are STILL occurring (shredding of fake ballots). He also only had the courage to publish this after the Kubuki Theatre Senators came out (after Josh Hawley’s real stand to stand up against the steal).
Not sure many CTH folks will be convinced of Pence being “the one” who has the guts to stand up to the multicorps, DNC, RINOS, and others in the Deep State, to put Trump on the ballot before the Senate. Really tepid in fact. Plus, why didn’t PENCE HIMSELF say these words?
Ol’ Lyin ted
Turn a negative slogan into a positive slogan
Lion Ted
Nope. President Trump is our Lion, a name bestowed by The People for fighting for us Americans.
Ted does not fight, temper tantrums or grandstands.
Los of one-sentence image-altering seeds being tossed out in the comments. . . .
Lyin Ted. The nickname stands up with Time.
Maybe Cruz has changed his spots but if not possibly someone else will grab the helm. Is Cruz so arrogant and out of touch that he’d diss over 70 million passionate Trump voters? I sure hope he’s learned something.
Ted Cruz is no leader.
It wasn’t until Josh Hawley stepped up to the plate that the others started to join in. Now Ted’s all over the place taking credit.
Up until Hawley came forward, Ted was busy making plans for the new Biden administration. Was he just going to ignore all the voter fraud?
“U.S. Senator Ted Cruz is thinking ahead and urging President Trump to set some wheels in motion in the event Joe Biden is sworn into office in January.”
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/12/23/ted-cruz-coaches-trump-to-send-iran-deal-and-paris-agreement-to-senate-to-set-them-up-to-fail-1009051/
The Texas Republican sent a letter to the president suggesting he act on the Iran nuclear agreement and Paris climate accords in order to set up the incoming Biden administration for a confrontation with the Republican-led Senate where both measures will surely fail.”
Senator Hawley is a new comer…courages to be the First Senator to stand up. If Cruz had not stood with, him the other Senators would have remained silent.
Well, maybe Trump should regret implying that Ted Cruz’ Dad killed JFK, maybe?
A guy whose first impulse is to lash out and issue Tweets excoriating other people may eventually find out he needs other people.
Donald Trump NEVER said that Ted Cruz’s father killed JFK. He said that Cruz knew Lee Harvey Oswald and was with him in New Orleans in 1963 prior to the assassination.
That probably wasn’t true, but it was a rumor (Trump didn’t invent it), and is far from accusing Rafael Cruz of killing JFK.
Judge Jeanine had one of the Senators that is going to speak up on her show tonight. All I could think of was great another gov’t bureaucracy looking at something to slow down the process. Based on Sundance’s analysis I was right. The time for these Senators to speak up was weeks ago. It is time to start primarying these people. We can start with mine, Rubio needs to go. I am still on the fence with Senator Scott.
This is a counterproductive and pointless attack on Ted Cruz. It was Ted Cruz who early on invited Trump to a DC rally when GOP establishment was rushing to condemn Trump. Trump’s attack on Ted Cruz’ father and the excrable attempt by Donald Trump to tie Cruz to Lee Harvey Oswald is ignored in your diatribe. The fact is that Ted Cruz has supported Trump far more than many other Republicans. Cruz is no Sasse, Crus is a Constitutional conservative, imperfect, but who isn’t? Trump certainly is not. Trump has attacked good people like Massie, who nonetheless continue to support conservative policies and Trump’s main agenda.
Given all that Trump has withstood, Trump deserves staunch support, but nothing is gained by your attack on Ted Cruz. I t is divisive when we all need to be united.
Raphael Cruz was a part of the Cubans in New Orleans with Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963. His photo marching and passing out leaflets with the Pro-Castro group are in the Warren Commission Report. When the Warren Commission investigation go a little hot for Cruz, his mentor George HW Bush got him and his 2nd wife, an American citizen, posted to Canada for a year or so, as an engineer working on oil and gas equipment sales. That’s when Ted was born — in Canada — to non-Canadian parents and questions about his nationality have existed ever since. If he was “naturalized” after the family returned to the US, then he would not qualify Constitutionally for the Presidency.
Rafael was not a US citizen at the time, either. Ted quit the race when the photo evidence came out in a tabloid, which of course everyone debunks. It was kind of sneaky how they did it, highlighting a picture of a man, not Ted’s father, saying it was Rafael. It was not, but Rafael was in the same picture!! Ted was screwed;-) (May 2, 2016 National Enquirer p. 27) Young Ted got his start as a bright boy and was helped along to the Ivy League (Princeton and Harvard LS) by the Bushes. It follows that there is no love lost between Bushes, Cruz and Donald Trump. With Jeb Bush out of any future political life it appears that Ted Cruz is really all by himself. Tough darts.
To be honest, Cruz already redeem himself when he support voting for Trump BEFORE Nov 2016 election. There are some Conservatives who support Trump after the election, but there are few very who voiced their support BEFORE the election. Since then Cruz have been supportive of Trump during his term and not being petty like Mccain and later Romney
Correct, but there is a purity test to be applied to anyone who supports Trump. And if the praetorian guard finds you wanting you will be a “cuckservative”.
Also, with Pence possibly turning traitor, I think the next Trump election may end up being Trump/Cruz
All of this Cruz bashing or rehashing in order to bash another conservative is why we have trouble getting over the hump and win and have large majorities in the house and senate. Some conservatives Eat their Young and then wonder why they are more often than not standing on the outside looking in. Some in this thread are very good at making my point. Cruz is not a Murkowski or a Romney so back off and be happy he’s at least so far done what’s needed to get the ball rolling. While I understand the thought of it’s just a delay tactic that will still lead to Biden’s inauguration but we have to realize that most the Republican Senators will still probably vote to support the Biden electors unless the process is stopped or in this attempt delayed. They simply don’t want Trump to win – they want him to go away.
Cruz is very smart and while he is asking for the 10 day investigation, HE IS SAYING THAT HIS GROUP WILL CONTEST THE ELECTION FIRST AND IF AND ONLY IF THERE IS NO EVIDENCE, they will change their vote to confirm China Joe. Since we all know the evidence is overwhelming, it provides cover fire to those weaklings. I think it is a great plan to get those on the fence to join it once the ball is rolling downhill. Hawley was the bold one, no doubt, and I wish it had been Cruz saying this, but the idea of the group was excellent and a good way to get weaker people onboard. Surprised Cotton hasn’t joined already.
Was not Cotton one of several senators and house delegates that went to Jekyll Island, GA to meet with never-Trumpers and deep-staters to try and derail the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald John Trump?
Democrats kiss and make up after their fights. Republicans keep fighting the last battle. No wonder they win and we lose.
This is counterproductive. Ted Cruz has since the 2016 campaign proven to be one of the good guys. He’s been working hard to put the feet of Big Tech to the fire and has been introducing some other good initiatives too. In his podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz, he has also given a very plausible explanation for not initially supporting Trump wholeheartedly. He wasn’t sure that Trump would be conservative enough in office, as Trump used to be a Democrat donor and presumably voter earlier in life. When Trump showed that he was sticking to his campaign promises and that he was executing conservative policies, Cruz was reassured that Trump was a man of his word. Cruz changes his mind when given evidence that proves he was wrong in his earlier assessment of the facts.
I’ve gotten to like Ted Cruz because he is a man of substance and has shown himself to be America First. Cruz does his research and as a result he knows what he’s talking about. The guy has good arguments when he opposes something which seems MAGA. Usually the arguments can be condensed to the following: the proposal is flawed and there is a more efficient or more implementable way to get to the goal.
What comes to not speaking out earlier in this challenging the electors issue, it’s perfectly in character as I have gotten to know Ted Cruz since Trump’s election. He needed to find a way to challenge the electors which has a legally sound foundation and therefore a chance of success. Ted Cruz is not a man to waste his energy on a doomed to fail effort if a better way is available. He had to make his case as strong as he could. That meant drafting a strong legal case and getting other senators to co-sign. The latter was crucial for the strategy to have any chance of success. He needed to have not only good legal arguments but also excellent persuasion game. The message had to be compelling not only to the senators and House representatives but to the public at large too. Without the support, he’d come off as a lonely kook who could easily be ignored. That would make it impossible for him to help Trump on this matter. The support of the other senators works as a persuasion tool towards the regular people. The point is to get people to think: “Well, if all these senators support this idea, and I guess it sounds quite reasonable anyway, maybe they are not trying to topple democratic process after all. I guess I should look into these election fraud allegations a bit more.” In the worst case, the challenge fails but some people become red-pilled. In the best case, the challenge succeeds and the “by the book” arguments combined with the strong persuasion will give the challenge legitimacy.
The pragmatic view is that Ted Cruz realizes that if he lets the Democrats get away with stealing the election and the seat of the highest office in the land, no Republican candidate for President will ever manage to win the presidential election ever again in this country.
So, is that to say that Cruz should not act as he has?
If you do the right thing for the wrong reason (not that you can read his mind and know the reason) is it then the wrong thing?
The Cruz team is here and making their voices known. There is anger abound among all of us, including me, but I support the Cruz effort and we do need to stay on the same team.
I really don’t like Ted Cruz, but that’s okay. I don’t trust him at all. I don’t trust any of them. There’s always some agenda at hand.
I don’t like everything Trump does or says either.
But, we are really on the same team and in the same family.
So, I appreciate the effort to understand that we are always developing and becoming better despite the sins of the past among all of us.
This is a ridiculous attack on a GREAT Man
imperfect but GREAT
Trust LION TED
Major problem trying to annoint Ted with the name given, by Patriots, to President Trump.
Cruz IS NOT a lion. and definately not our lion.
No matter how many times this new, orchestrated marketing phrase is cheerleaded, it wil NEVER BE ACCEPTED.
We will NOT be brainwashed by psyops and Alynski tactics.
I trust no one in DC but PDJT, who has proven his integrity hand over fist.
The only question I have, is in view of his love for Americans and the country, will he do the hard things that seem to be indicated, that will assuredly cement divisions media has created?
China is a real threat, and their tendrils wend throughout the country. Will PDJT use the means within his power to stop it cold, and apprehend and dispose of the collaborators?
There is no self-healing option for DC and affected localities that seem apparent. Traitors don’t change their spots. Like ticks, they only burrow deeper, and up their game for the next scam.
Abrams is but one example, and look at what she and Chyna accomplished here in GA, with the Consent Decree. Kemp and Raffersperger utterly destroyed, politically. And, criminally liable, perhaps.
Treason and all Chyna f*ckery must be dealt with harshly, and with swift finality, or the nation will be become ungovernable.
Whether or not PDJT is inaugurated on the 20th. And if he isn’t, never mind.
Will Ted lead the charge? Nah. But the impression will look good, at least to him.
Allow people to grow and learn and improve, even Ted Cruz.
Cruz found a historical precedent–an Election Audit Commission–to force a more serious review of the evidence. Without it, the votes in the House and Senate on Jan. 6 would likely go against Trump.
An extra ten days will force attention on the actual evidence, which is overwhelming. That can only be a good thing–the 75 million are already on board, and the decent but slow to awake will add to that total. It opens the possibility of generating momentum and unity around truth.
Pence remains an untrustworthy enigma. To my knowledge, he never acknowledged being played by the FBI/DOJ in getting Flynn fired (or apologized to Flynn); he never acknowledged that Dan Coats at DNI at Pence’s recommendation was a straight out anti-Trump Swamp protector; and he reportedly thinks Anthony Fauci is a great guy. That’s three strikes. Cruz’ Commission has at least a chance to make the elephant in the room too hard to ignore. There’s never been an actual debunking of election fraud evidence; just a ritual repetition of the narrative of ‘there was no election fraud’. There won’t be a debunking, because the evidence is irrefutable.
So Cruz’ Commission has a lot of upside; we should support it and him.
Ted Cruz has an unpleasant personality! So what?
I’m wholeheartedly support President Donald J. Trump. I also understand why some others don’t like his personality either!
MAGA 2020/2024
Geesh! Ted’s 2024 Presidential Campaign team is out in full force and taking over CTH threads. Pretty soon they will be linking to an official campaign site to donate, bragging the people are donating. Then we will forget the donors that own him.
No amount of Ted Cruz taking on President Trump’s speaking mannerisms and cadence, no amount of referring to Ted as “lion” (the name and image we donned DJT to own), and no amount of Ted presenting Trump’s ideas WILL EVER GET HIM TO BE SEEN AS THE NEXT TRUMP.
People who support Ted Cruz are taken back by a puerile, backward-looking attack on Ted Cruz that has no real purpose. We expect better from this site.
Hopefully, CTH is wrong and Cruz will be redeemed! I know Trump was dayum hard on Cruz Wife and Father. I remember Cruz calling out McConnell on the Senate floor for his bald face lying. Of course Cruz is a narcissist. What politician isn’t? Politics is for ugly people who can’t get into acting.
Stop the divisive comments on both sides. We have a war to fight and a country to save. The primary objective is to salvage the election theft/coup that is in progress. Period. If we don’t meet that objective together and get unified at least in this function, we may very well, hang/gas/burn/be destroyed separately and Ben Franklin would say. These are the times that try men’s souls. Get your souls and minds where they belong.
Upon further reflection, one must respectfully disagree with your postulate, that Sen Ted Cruz has a chance at redemption.
As usual, Cruz has made this all about himself. Cruz has, again, badly misjudged the mood of us Non-Essential Chump Deplorables, and thinks this move will placate us.
Oh sure, there are some bandwagon-Tracey-Beans who never met a parade they won’t steal, but the vast majority of Deplorables see right through this. imo
Cruz has no new ideas, nothing original, but has stolen ideas from others.
Further, there are two people that know these cases inside and out, top to bottom that Cruz has chosen not to include – Patriot Mayor Rudy Guiliani and Jenna Ellis, not to mention Dr John Eastman.. All Cruz has done is point to himself again as having been asked to participate in the Texas case before the Supreme Court.
Heck, even I could see the obvious in that move.
Why was Sen Josh Hawley not included? Sen Hawley is an obvious choice, being the first to speak up.
Who picks the commission members? Who testifies for each state? How are the states reconciled at all, being in different phases of challenges by Team Trump?
All Cruz has done is shrink Team Trump’s time from 17 days to three days. How is that productive?
The Constitution says the state legislators, being closest to the people, are the ones doing the choosing.
Cruz blew it before he even started. Cruz should have joined Team Trump in their efforts right now, which are presenting the facts to state legislators and working there.
Second chance at redemption? Methinks not.
jeans2nd, I am going to disagree with your assessment of Senator Cruz. Since reading his book, “One Vote Away”, I have come to understand Ted’s great love for his country, it’s Constitution and conservative values. The book has been written during PDJT’s 1st term in office and speaks to the importance of having judges with a strict constructionist mindset sitting on our nation’s highest court. Ted Cruz realizes the value of PDJT’s conservative views when it comes to our nation’s courts. I do not think Ted is going to back away from this opportunity to save the integrity of our nation’s electoral process.
So, how many cases has Rudy gotten the courts to hear, with his mountains of evidence?
Zero.
Ditto Sidney Powell.
Ditto Lin Wood.
Time for a different approach; it is only Trump’s chance, and it is a slim one.
An awful lot has happened in the past four-plus years. People change, people repent, people acknowledge the immense success of others and want to ensure that success continues. Kudos to Senator Ted Cruz for rallying around our Constitution and leading us out of this evil fraud perpetrated on our Republic by the DNC and one world order masters.
Keep praying for all the good people involved in maintaining our freedoms. Pray for the protection of all who will attend the rallies this week. Pray for our President, our country and the world. When the United States leads and succeeds, the entire world does the same.
if you don’t want to be on the train, get off. This is the last stop. Sadly, the usual suspects like Murkowsky, Romney, Toomey, and too many others are still hanging on for the trip, like the wasp in your car when you’re doing 75 on the Interstate and you’re trying mightily to get it the hell out!
I come here expecting deep insights I can’t find elsewhere. This post is a complete disappointment.
Ted Cruz fought Donald Trump tooth and nail for the Republican nomination in 2016, then fell in line after Trump won the nomination and has been the best friend Donald Trump could ever have. Despite Trump implying that Cruz’ father had something to do with killing JFK.
Trump doesn’t act like what Ted Cruz did in 2016 is a big deal; why can’t you follow his lead?
Dems eviscerate each other routinely in the primaries and then come together like nothing happened (see Biden and Harris). Democrats want to win and wield power. Republicans want to continue the last war and the lost cause after it is over because they want to show how pure they are.
It is a losing strategy.
Get over it.
Cruz will do what he can to protest the EC vote certifications, but he can only do what he can do.
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