Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) praised The Daily Wire&#8217;s first-ever feature-length comedy “Lady Ballers” on Tuesday after the initial release of the film&#8217;s trailer garnered tens of millions of views on social media.
“Lady Ballers,” a DailyWire+ original, is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dailywire-drops-trailer-for-the-most-triggering-comedy-of-the-year-mocking-men-in-womens-sports">directed</a> by the company’s co-founder Jeremy Boreing, who also stars in the film alongside Daily Wire sports show “Crain &amp; Co.” hosts. The movie tells the story of one down-on-his-luck former high school basketball coach, Rob, who will do anything to win — which in this case means teaching his team of men radical modern gender theory and leading them to identify as women in order to brutally dominate multiple women’s sports.
Cruz appears in the movie alongside other notable conservatives, including The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and others.
&#8220;Today, Cultural Marxists enforce their ideology through not only the government, but also through education, journalism, Big Tech, Big Business, sports, music, and Hollywood,&#8221; Cruz said in a statement to The Daily Wire. &#8220;I just wrote a bestselling book, &#8216;Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America&#8217;, to establish the game plan for taking our country back. I am proud to join the Daily Wire and support their effort to break through Hollywood’s woke toxicity and expose the comedic irony of Leftist ideology.&#8221;
Cruz said that &#8220;leftist radicals are trying to permanently destroy women’s sports,&#8221; adding that it is &#8220;so outrageous it&#8217;s almost comedic that the radical left is allowing men to dress as women and then dominate women&#8217;s sports.&#8221;
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&#8220;They&#8217;re so out of control, the regular news headlines are starting to read as if they were written by the Babylon Bee,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I was proud to appear in the Daily Wire&#8217;s new comedy that will call out the leftists destroying women&#8217;s sports and taking opportunities away from female athletes. Oh yeah, and the movie is funny as hell too!&#8221;
Though largely kept under wraps until now, the movie already had its fair share of controversy during filming in Nashville, with protestors rallying on location, bullying and harassing cast and crew as they arrived on set, and successfully pressuring one contracted filming location to cancel. But the cast and crew were undeterred and successfully wrapped filming in early July, and the movie will premiere Wednesday, November 29, at a red carpet event in Nashville. “Lady Ballers” will be available to DailyWire+ members beginning Friday, December 1, at 8 p.m. ET.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed mainstream corporate media this week for promoting pro-Hamas propaganda during their coverage of Israel&#8217;s war against the terrorists who committed the October 7 attacks.
Cruz made the remarks during an episode of his &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast after co-host Ben Ferguson highlighted two <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2023/11/10/msnbc-promotes-propaganda-video-known-hamas-linked-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> from <a id="m_3875562687135072565OWA764d3082-81ca-3607-ba8c-1461692b1d71" href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2023/11/10/abc-cbs-and-nbc-elevate-gaza-video-known-propaganda" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2023/11/10/abc-cbs-and-nbc-elevate-gaza-video-known-propaganda&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1700211857712000&amp;usg=AOvVaw300NZcbBfa0rVoe3xHdp8S">Newsbusters</a> about ABC, CBS, NBC, and MSNBC promoting a known crisis actor.
&#8220;Ben, there&#8217;s one of two scenarios,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;Either CBS, ABC, and NBC knew who he was. In which case they&#8217;re deliberately lying to the American people and saying let&#8217;s take a Hamas propagandist and put it on the global stage. If they knew, the producer put this segment together should be fired. Or the alternative is they didn&#8217;t know.&#8221;
&#8220;If they didn&#8217;t know, it means they had a political narrative they wanted to tell,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They had a political agenda, and it was too good to check. They got a video that fit their political agenda, let&#8217;s put it on the news. And you know what, if they didn&#8217;t know it means they&#8217;re biased and incompetent. They ought to be fired anyway.&#8221;
Cruz said that anyone who was involved in the dissemination of the pro-Hamas propaganda should face consequences because they were &#8220;lying on behalf of terrorists.&#8221;
&#8220;CBS, if there&#8217;s one principled journalist at all of CBS, do a story on who this guy is, and how CBS was complicit in spreading his lies,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That won&#8217;t be easy, it will make it will be very uncomfortable because it will make you look like crap.&#8221;
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Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) fired back at comedian Jimmy Kimmel over the late night host&#8217;s segment highlighting Cruz&#8217;s latest book — &#8220;Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America&#8221; — and said that while he was fine with Kimmel poking fun at him, it was almost always one-sided.
Cruz addressed the topic on a <a href="https://x.com/tedcruz/status/1722619274974687681?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent episode</a> of his podcast, &#8220;Verdict,&#8221; and he explained to cohost Ben Ferguson that he didn&#8217;t mind taking a few barbs from a comedian — he just wished that they were actually funny.
&#8220;Slimy Ted Cruz has a new book!&#8221; Kimmel announced via X, sharing a short clip of himself talking about it.
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Kimmel went through a list of other titles he attributed to Cruz — including &#8220;Head Ooze,&#8221; &#8220;Glued Pubes: The Guide For Guys Who Can&#8217;t Grow A Beard,&#8221; and &#8220;A Partially Digested Rat&#8221; — before he delivered the punchline, his reaction to Cruz&#8217;s claim that late-night comedy had become &#8220;unwatchable&#8221; and that hosts unable to do anything but attack former President Donald Trump were &#8220;pitiful&#8221; rather than funny.
&#8220;It&#8217;s an honor to be called pitiful,&#8221; Kimmel said, to tepid laughs from his audience.
Cruz explained to Ferguson that he had initially responded to the clip by sharing it and thanking Kimmel for helping to promote the book.
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&#8220;I mean, when he did that last night, I actually tweeted his monologue out this morning and I said, &#8216;Hey, thanks for pitching my book. You forgot the link to where you can buy it,'&#8221; Cruz said, and added that he had also poked fun at Kimmel with a reminder of their last meeting on the basketball court.
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Ever since I kicked <a href="https://twitter.com/JimmyKimmelLive?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JimmyKimmelLive</a>’s ass at one-on-one hoops, it seems like I’m living rent-free in his head. 
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&#8220;I sent a video of me scoring on him and blocking him just to remind him of that moment that I think he probably still wakes up in tremors about, but I thought it was hysterical,&#8221; the Texas senator continued. &#8220;What he read there was an actual excerpt from the book and he put up the book cover, and I think that&#8217;s fabulous.&#8221;
&#8220;But I do wish, the substantive point that late-night humor I wish was actually funny. I love comedy. I grew up watching &#8216;SNL.&#8217; I like real comedians who are funny, and they used to be funny,&#8221; Cruz continued. &#8220;And now it&#8217;s one of the many examples that I discuss at length in the book, &#8216;Unwoke&#8217;: How Trump broke the media, Trump broke the Democrat Party, and Trump broke late-night comedy because they just, it&#8217;s a partisan primal scream instead of good comedy that makes fun of both sides. I&#8217;m perfectly fine with making fun of me, but they never ever make fun of the Democrats. It&#8217;s purely &#8216;I am leftist; hear me roar.'&#8221;

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) shared this week what he saw at the U.S. border during his most recent visit to an area in his home state that has turned into a catastrophe zone because of Biden administration policies.
Cruz made the remarks during an episode of his &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson while talking about his visit to the U.S.-Mexico border late last week with Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX), John Barrasso (R-WY), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Pete Ricketts (R-NE).
&#8220;One of the things we learned, which I had never heard, which is in the past year, the Biden administration has put out new guidelines for pursuit of illegal aliens,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;This is illegal aliens that are running, that are trying to get away. And the guidelines, you&#8217;d have to effectively call them guidelines for non-pursuit, because they are told you cannot pursue illegal aliens if there is anything that could potentially endanger someone&#8217;s safety.&#8221;
Cruz noted that for example, this meant that if there were four people in the back of a vehicle and there were only three seatbelts, agents could not pursue them because if there was an accident, a person would get hurt. He said that the policy has actually encouraged traffickers to do dangerous things because they know that agents won&#8217;t pursue because of Biden&#8217;s policy.
He said that during a midnight patrol, he saw a disturbing situation where there was a group of a couple dozen people, mostly women and children, and there were cues from things that the children said that officials believed was a sign that they were being trafficked.
&#8220;The one that was haunting for me was in the back there was this man, a grown man, maybe 35 years old,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;And he was with a little girl who was 10. And he said she was his daughter. She said he was her dad. It was obvious to everyone he was not her father.&#8221;
&#8220;He had his arm around her. And it was like locked tight, like he was holding her, almost so she wouldn&#8217;t run away,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And the look of terror in that little girl&#8217;s face. She was so frightened of this large, sweaty man who had his arm around her and was saying he was her father. And there&#8217;s a frustration and helplessness that there&#8217;s nothing we can do, that nothing the Border Patrol can do. Because when they take them in, the Biden administration instructs them &#8216;release them.'&#8221;
Cruz said that Biden canceled DNA testing at the border so it was now much harder, if not impossible, to determine if children were coming into the country with their actual parents or if they were being trafficked.
&#8220;Biden canceled the DNA tests,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Like, you want to talk about one of the great scandals, these Democrats who prance around and say they&#8217;re so compassionate, they no longer test to find out if father and alleged daughter or father and alleged son are related because they don&#8217;t want to know, they don&#8217;t care. They are perfectly happy just leaving a pedophile with a little girl or a little boy who&#8217;s being abused.&#8221;
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He said that the little girl that he saw would likely be forced into prostitution for the next several years and that there was nothing any of the senators could do to stop Biden&#8217;s policies.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed Black Lives Matter for its &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-chapters-express-support-for-hamas-after-terror-attacks-on-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">embrace</a> and support&#8221; of Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist group, and every entity that supported the far-Left group over the last several years.
Cruz made the remarks during an episode of his &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast after Hamas launched unprecedented terror attacks in Israel last week that killed over 1,400 Israelis.
&#8220;Our elite universities are venomous pits of anti-Semitism and hatred for Israel. And we&#8217;re seeing that arise all across the country,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;Every university president, every college professor, every Fortune 500 corporation that wrote a check to Black Lives Matter, all of them who embrace these radical Marxist revolutionaries they need to be asked, every one of them, do you support this anti-semitic, anti-Israel hatred?&#8221;
&#8220;Black Lives Matter supports Hamas. Black Lives Matter is Hamas. And I want you to understand this, and we&#8217;re going to lay out the facts and details on this carefully,&#8221; he said. &#8216;They want the destruction of Israel, their co-founder said her objective is to end the imperialist project that is Israel, and they openly embrace and support the Hamas terrorists.&#8221;
Cruz noted that Black Lives Matter activists have admitted to being trained Marxists and that they have a history of making anti-Semitic remarks about Israel, including making claims that Israel is “complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian people.”
&#8220;I want you to hear those words. &#8216;End the imperialist project that is called Israel&#8217;,&#8221; Cruz said in highlighting remarks from BLM. &#8220;That&#8217;s Black Lives Matter. That&#8217;s what Black Lives Matter calls for. And mind you, not help the Palestinian people, not have a two-state solution. End Israel.&#8221;
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Cruz then highlighted various companies and top executives that donated to Black Lives Matter, adding: &#8220;These morons are literally funding organizations that are calling for boycotts of their companies.&#8221;
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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) blamed President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party for the recent terrorist attacks in Israel, saying that the administration&#8217;s loosening of sanctions and recent unfreezing of Iranian assets helped finance the attack.
The remarks come as more than 1,000 Israelis were murdered and more than 2,600+ were injured in the attack on Saturday.
&#8220;I’ll tell you what is infuriating about this. This was paid for by Joe Biden and the Democrats,&#8221; Cruz said on an episode of his &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson.
&#8220;This is something that the corporate media desperately wants to avoid. But let&#8217;s be clear,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;This attack, this massacre, this horrific assault on Israel, was funded by Iran. Hamas and Hezbollah are Iranian proxies. They work for Iran. They work under the direction of Iran. They are funded by Iran.&#8221;
Recent reports from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wapo-confirms-that-iran-played-key-role-in-hamas-attack-on-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-greenlit-palestinian-terror-attacks-on-israel-israel-vows-to-strike-irans-leadership-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a> have said that Iran was behind the attacks, helping finance and plan the operation.
Cruz mentioned the $6 billion in Iranian assets that the administration unfroze in exchange for five U.S. citizens being let out of wrongful detainment in Iran.
&#8220;At $6 billion, that&#8217;s $1.2 billion per American,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;That set a bounty on Americans of over a billion dollars. That means Americans in the future will be taken hostage &#8212; but the $6 billion is just a fraction of the cash that Joe Biden has flooded into Iran. Because a few weeks before the $6 billion, the Biden administration allowed $10 billion from Iraq to flow into Iran. That brings it up to $16 billion in cash that directly flowed into Iran.&#8221;
Cruz then noted that the $16 billion paled in comparison to the revenues that the Iranians have obtained from oil ever since the Biden administration loosened sanctions, saying that Iran has been selling more than two million barrels of oil per day.
&#8220;Over the last two and a half years, the Biden administration is responsible for roughly $50 billion,&#8221; Cruz continued. &#8220;So when you are watching Israelis murdered, when you&#8217;re watching infants murdered, when you are watching women and girls raped, when you&#8217;re watching hundreds of Israelis taken hostage, know that Joe Biden and this White House funded it. They funded it for idiotic political reasons. And now they&#8217;re desperately trying to backtrack, saying, ‘No, no, no, we didn&#8217;t pay for these atrocities.’ They absolutely did.&#8221;
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says the United States’ illegal immigration problem stems from President Joe Biden’s border policies and unwillingness to &#8220;follow the law.&#8221; 
Cruz <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ted-cruz-says-historic-southern-border-crisis-only-get-worse-until-there-new-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News Digital on Sunday that the issue could be averted if the United States had a “new president” who enforced the country’s immigration laws. His comments come as records continue to be broken regarding the number of illegal immigrants entering the United States under Biden. 
&#8220;South Texas is in an absolute state of crisis,” the Texas Republican said. “The jails are overflowing, the hospitals are overflowing, the schools are overflowing. And throughout Texas, we&#8217;re seeing the very real human consequences of Joe Biden and the Democrats&#8217; open borders.&#8221;
Customs and Border Protection recorded roughly 260,000 illegal immigrant encounters on the southern border in September, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/30/record-setting-260000-migrants-crossed-southern-border-in-september-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>. That&#8217;s the highest number on record, with the previous monthly record being 252,320 encounters in December 2022. 
Cruz told Fox that in just one day, there were 4,000 migrant encounters in Eagle Pass, Texas, one of the centers of the illegal immigration crisis. Eagle Pass has a population of 28,000 people, the outlet notes. 
&#8220;That is 14% of the entire population of the city coming in a single day,” Cruz said. “The comparable number to New York City would be 1,260,000 illegal immigrants crossing into New York City in a single day. If 110,000 is a crisis, what do you think over a million would be? That is happening throughout our southern border.&#8221;
New York City, which <a href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nycs-status-as-a-sanctuary-city-draws-thousands-of-asylum-seekers-weekly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">considers itself</a> a “sanctuary city,” has seen an influx of illegal immigrants under the Biden administration. In just the past year, roughly 117,000 illegal immigrants have entered the Big Apple, and many of those are still being housed on the city’s dime, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-mayor-will-tell-migrants-not-to-come-to-city-on-latin-america-trip" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who <a href="https://twitter.com/ericadamsfornyc/status/1450967702093320203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1450967702093320203%7Ctwgr%5E4e2a72e87f300257e265fdedf1dc38da1d3822a3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fsend-migrants-to-the-cities-villages-towns-across-america-so-its-not-a-burden-on-nyc-mayor-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaigned</a> on keeping the city a “sanctuary” for illegal immigrants, has gone so far as to say the “issue will destroy New York City.” Adams <a href="https://apnews.com/article/colombia-migrants-new-york-mayor-2293fc825fbe51e2fabbb7d14768e971" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrapped up</a> a trip to Latin America on Saturday, where he attempted to discourage migrants from unlawfully crossing the border. 
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As for what’s behind the recent surge, Cruz says that Biden&#8217;s reversal of at least three of former President Donald Trump’s border policies is to blame. These include Biden ending the construction of Trump’s border wall, increasing usage of “catch-and-release,” and ending the “Remain in Mexico” policy, Fox reported. 
Cruz says one thing can reverse the disastrous state of the border: a new president. &#8220;I believe the only way to solve this crisis is through a new president who&#8217;s actually willing to follow the law,&#8221; he said. He added that Biden is even more radical on immigration than former President Barack Obama, saying Obama “generally followed the law on immigration.” 
&#8220;What Joe Biden is doing has never happened in the history of our nation. He&#8217;s simply ignoring the law, is defying the law brazenly,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;And as long as you have a president, as long as you have a chief executive who ignores the law, it doesn&#8217;t matter what laws are on the books. If you have a president that is willing to defy the law and you have a corrupt corporate media that is willing to cover for his illegal conduct, as long as this lawless administration remains in power, this crisis will continue, and I believe it will continue to get worse.&#8221;

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) made a re-election pitch to supporters by warning <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas">Texas</a> is a political litmus test for the United States.
The lawmaker, who is seeking a third term in the Senate in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2024-election">2024</a>, talked of high stakes in his race during an interview at a diner in North Dallas on Thursday.
&#8220;If Texas turns blue, the country&#8217;s gone,&#8221; Cruz told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6338450358112">Fox News</a> Lawrence Jones after a discussion about the border crisis. &#8220;We don&#8217;t stay up at night wondering what happens with Ohio or Florida if Texas turns blue,&#8221; the senator added.
The Democratic primary race to pick a general election challenger in the 2024 Senate race includes Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX) and Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who represents a district that contains Uvalde — the town where a gunman killed <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-respond-active-shooter-texas-elementary-school-rcna30339">19 children and two teachers</a> at an elementary school last year.
Among the issues the Democrats are talking about are <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/23/texas-democrats-allred-gutierrez-cruz-senate/">gun control and abortion</a>.
With control of the Senate at stake, Cruz predicted his 2024 race will be a &#8220;real fight,&#8221; noting that &#8220;Democrats have set their sights on the state of Texas.&#8221; Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) &#8220;has made clear that I am the No. 1 target in the country that he wants to take out,&#8221; he added.
Cruz ran an unsuccessful campaign for the presidency in the 2016 cycle before winning a second term in the Senate in 2018 against former Rep. Beto O&#8217;Rourke (D-TX), who came within 3 percentage points in a bid spurred by a <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/12/07/how-much-of-the-record-80-million-beto-o-rourke-raised-to-beat-ted-cruz-is-left-for-another-run/">record $80 million fundraising</a> haul.
&#8220;In 2018, it was the most expensive Senate race in U.S. history,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;We were outspent three-to-one. The Democrats flooded tens of millions of dollars into the state of Texas.&#8221;
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When it came to turnout, Cruz said Democrats &#8220;more than doubled&#8221; their numbers from 1.8 million to 4 million, which he said was &#8220;unprecedented.&#8221; Republicans &#8220;leaned in vigorously&#8221; and drove GOP turnout from 2.8 million to 4.2 million, he added.
Cruz said his margin of victory in 2018 was 0.2 points, or 200,000 votes, out of more than 8 million cast. &#8220;They&#8217;re going to spend $100 million [in] the next year trying to flip Texas blue,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;Democrats have set their bullseye on my race in Texas,&#8221; Cruz said as he encouraged people to visit his campaign website and support his re-election effort.

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Ted Cruz Says ‘The Country’s Gone’ If Texas Turns Blue

Ted Cruz Says 'The Country's Gone' If Texas Turns Blue

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) said following the second Republican Party primary debate on Wednesday night that he believes Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was &#8220;the big winner&#8221; and that most of the candidates did not do anything to help themselves.
Cruz made the remarks during an episode of his &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson following the debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.
&#8220;This was a bumpy debate. There were a lot of rocky moments. I think most of the candidates did not help themselves,&#8221; Cruz <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1707390457821434036" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;But my clear conclusion from tonight is the big winner was Ron DeSantis.&#8221;
Cruz said that after the first debate, he thought former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy did well, but the overall winner was Trump because other candidates outside of DeSantis did well.
&#8220;I think going into the night DeSantis needed to do well. And I think he rose to the occasion,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;I think he did by far the best of anyone on the stage.&#8221;
Cruz said that DeSantis did the best for several reasons, including the &#8220;behavior of the others,&#8221; who he said &#8220;bickered like children.&#8221;
&#8220;And I don&#8217;t think it helped them,&#8221; Cruz said speaking of the other candidates. &#8220;I think when they were just yelling at each other back and forth, and back and forth, and back and forth. When you see a bunch of people screaming at each other, they don&#8217;t look like presidents. They&#8217;re not behaving like presidents. Presidents don&#8217;t have to yap at each other.&#8221;
Cruz said that DeSantis had &#8220;several best answers of the night,&#8221; including his answer on education, which Cruz said was the &#8220;single best answer of the night.&#8221;
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&#8220;The topic came up about education, it came about school choice, and he gave a strong, powerful answer about school choice, about how number one, Florida had implemented universal school choice,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;Florida has led the country in school choice. So, they&#8217;ve got a heck of a record to talk about. He was asked about the attacks on their efforts to root out Critical Race Theory in Florida. And he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ron-desantis-pushes-back-on-slavery-hoax-from-kamala-harris-as-left-wing-moderator-tim-scott-push-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">directly confronted</a> that, and I thought it was a tight, crisp answer. That was strong.&#8221;
Cruz said he also thought DeSantis gave a &#8220;very, very strong&#8221; answer while talking about victories that he won in Florida. &#8220;The reason people got excited about DeSantis when he launched the campaign is the victories that he had in Florida, big policy victories,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;He emphasized that.&#8221;
Cruz said he also liked the moment where DeSantis talked about winning and how he won in landslide fashion during the midterms while the Republican Party largely underperformed across the country.
&#8220;He talked about winning in Florida, even as nationally, we were getting clobbered in 2022,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;He won by 19 points, and I think he did an effective argument. In many ways, his strongest argument against Trump is that he won while many other candidates that Trump had supported nationally did not win that cycle. And his argument, you want a winner, you want someone who can beat the Democrats, I&#8217;m that guy. I think he articulated it much, much better tonight than he did in the first debate, that&#8217;s why I think Ron DeSantis won tonight.&#8221;

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Ted Cruz Weighs In On Who Was ‘The Big Winner’ From Second GOP Primary Debate

Ted Cruz Weighs In On Who Was 'The Big Winner' From Second GOP Primary Debate

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) slammed President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party this week over the renewed explosion of illegal immigration on the U.S. southern border, saying that they &#8220;empower the cartels&#8221; to make billions of dollars through their illicit activities while ignoring the suffering of the American people.
Cruz made the remarks during an episode of his &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast this week with co-host Ben Ferguson while discussing his recent appearance at the 2023 Texas Tribune Festival.
Cruz noted that there has been a roughly 400% increase in illegal immigration from August 2020 under the previous administration to more than 200,000 illegal alien counters in 2021 and now closer to a quarter of a million encounters this year.
&#8220;That same ratio is there every single month, October, November, December, January, February, all the way through, you see numbers that are about a quarter of what they are now, a 4x increase,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;And that&#8217;s what happens when you have open border Democrats who empower the cartels and among other things make billions of dollars for the cartels in human trafficking and drug trafficking not concerning themselves with the death and suffering and misery that results from it.&#8221;
Cruz then blasted New York City Mayor Eric Adams for claiming that thousands of illegal aliens sent to his city are ruining the city, noting that small towns in Texas receive more migrants and have significantly less resources than America&#8217;s largest city.
&#8220;Eagle Pass is a small town on the southern border on the Rio Grande River. It has a population of about 28,000 people so it&#8217;s a little town. On one single day, last week, more than 4,000 illegal immigrants came into Eagle Pass &#8211; on one day. Now 4,000 people in a town of 28,000 people is about 14% of the population. About 14% of the population of the city came illegally into Eagle Pass on one day,&#8221; Cruz said.
He continued, &#8220;What would that be in New York City? New York City has a population of about 9 million people. If 14% of New York City came into New York on one day, that would be 1,260,000 people invading New York on a single day. Mayor Adams says 110,000 people over two and a half years is a crisis destroying the city. Well, how would he feel about 1,260,000 people entering the city on a single day? That&#8217;s what Eagle Pass saw on one day last week. And you know what? They saw thousands more the next day and the next day and the next day and the next day. And these Democrats do not give a damn.&#8221;
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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) slammed President Joe Biden this week for failing to give his top challenger in the Democratic Party — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Secret Service protection after a man showed up at one of his campaign events with a loaded gun.
Speaking on his &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast, Cruz told co-host Ben Ferguson: “The reason I believe the Biden administration hasn&#8217;t granted [Secret Service protection] is because if they did, it legitimizes [RFK Jr.].”
&#8220;This isn&#8217;t a Left or Right issue. The Biden administration should give Robert Kennedy Jr. a security detail, now,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;Given his tragic family history, both his father and uncle were horrifically assassinated, and this latest serious security incident, Biden shouldn&#8217;t mess around.&#8221;
&#8220;In this instance, you&#8217;ve got RFK Jr., number one, you&#8217;ve got his unique personal story,&#8221; he later added. &#8220;His father was murdered while running for President of the United States. Bobby Kennedy was murdered as a candidate for the Democratic nominee for president and before that his uncle, John F. Kennedy, was murdered while being President of the United States. Given that history and given that people are just nuts.&#8221;
Cruz said that he thought it was a &#8220;no-brainer&#8221; that if RFK Jr. wanted to get Secret Service protection, he deserves it.
&#8220;And the reason I believe the Biden administration hasn&#8217;t granted it is because if they did, it legitimizes him, they would have to say he&#8217;s a major candidate and the approach of the Biden White House is, RFK who? We never heard of him,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;Nope, nope. Nobody running. Nobody in the Democrat primary, doesn&#8217;t exist. This is a coronation &#8212; Joe&#8217;s down in the basement. And I think it is purely political.&#8221;
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“Whether you&#8217;re a Democrat or Republican, this ought to be an easy choice. And the Biden White House ought to get their political heads out of their rear ends and do the right thing.”
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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) said this week that he believes that Democrats will likely seek to replace President Joe Biden ahead of the 2024 presidential election and that they will do so by bringing in Michelle Obama.
Cruz made the remarks during an episode of his &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson while discussing the mainstream media&#8217;s recent push for Biden to not run again.
&#8220;Here&#8217;s the scenario that I think is perhaps most likely and most dangerous,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;In August of 2024, the Democrat kingmakers jettison Joe Biden and parachute in Michelle Obama.&#8221;
&#8220;So, Michelle Obama, number one, you don&#8217;t infuriate African American women, which is a critical part of the constituency that Democrats are relying on to win,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;But number two, you avoid the problem if you pick from any of the four, the other three are pissed [Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom], because they&#8217;re all, to some extent, peers, they&#8217;re rivals, they&#8217;re all jabbing knives at each other.&#8221;
Cruz said he didn&#8217;t know if Michelle Obama would want to be president, but said that former President Barack Obama is effectively running the Biden administration right now and that he could be running the country again if Michelle was elected.
&#8220;And that ought to scare the hell out of anyone who is unhappy about the direction this country is going and doesn&#8217;t want us to go even crazier, in an even worse direction,&#8221; Cruz said, adding that Biden would turn himself into a hero of the Democratic Party if he announced that he was not running for re-election.
&#8220;They immediately start carving him on Rushmore, figuratively speaking, the Rushmore of socialists,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Joe Biden would permanently, look, he aspires to be the next FDR. And part of how Democrats would get him to step down is by saying, &#8216;By doing this, you’re the next FDR; by doing this, you&#8217;re George Washington, stepping down after two terms. You&#8217;re demonstrating the ultimate statesmen principle.'&#8221;
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&#8220;The Democrats are top-down, the Democrats are command and control,&#8221; Cruz later added. &#8220;And it&#8217;s because Michelle has a claim to already being at a higher level in the Democrat pecking order than any of the other contenders. It&#8217;s the only solution for Democrat power brokers that doesn&#8217;t cause a civil war.&#8221;
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