Ted Cruz is facing ethics questions regarding his relationship with iHeartMedia amidst a tight race against Rep. Colin Allred for his Senate seat.

The Texas senator’s questionable podcast deal with iHeartMedia is raising eyebrows amid his increasingly desperate fundraising efforts

THE WALLS ARE closing in around Ted Cruz, and the Republican senator is lashing out.

Cruz, who has served two terms as Texas junior senator, is facing a tough reelection challenge from former NFL player and current U.S. Rep. ​​Colin Allred (D-Texas), who won Texas’ Democratic Senate primary in a landslide victory last month.

On Wednesday, Cruz begged for donation on Fox News while complaining that Allred is out fundraising his 2018 challenger, former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, by leaps and bounds.

“The Democrats are coming after me, they are gonna spend more than $100 million this year, George Soros is already spending millions of dollars in the state of Texas,” Cruz told Sean Hannity. “My opponent a liberal Democrat named Colin Allred, is out raising Beto O’Rourke, my last opponent, 3 to 1. They are flooding millions of dollars into Texas — and the reason is simple. You remember my last reelection, it was a 3-point race. I won by 2.6 percent.”

  • Tolookah
    51·
    8 months ago

    In red Texas, they vote AllRed?

    I’ll be happy to see Ted voted out.

    • anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      25·
      8 months ago

      Oh sheet a footballer? Ted is cooked. They all claim to be christian but we know who the true god of Texas is. The almighty pigskin.

      • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        8 months ago

        Nobody in Texas outside of Dallas or Houston cares about the NFL, though. It matters more that he played college ball at Baylor, I think.

        I thunk it also matters that he wasn’t very good. According to his Wikipedia page, he only played in 32 games over 4 years as a pro. That probably saved his brain from CTE.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Allred

        • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
          11·
          8 months ago

          The guy went on to get a law degree and a career in government, so you’re probably right. His brain didn’t get scrambled too badly from the NFL.

          • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            You could argue, though, that if his brain did get scrambled he would make the perfect MAGA Republican

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      8 months ago

      These headlines come out literally every time he’s up for reelection. And he wins so easily. I feel like it’s just clickbait. Or worse, calls for donations for a doomed campaign