It hasn’t been a great week if your name is Ted Cruz.
The target on the antigay Senator from Texas’ back for the role he played in the deadly insurrection on the U.S. Capitol earlier this month just got a whole lot bigger.
Rick Wilson, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, says that now that Donald Trump is out of power, the super PAC is turning its sights towards the Cruz.
“He is a guy who went so far over the edge, not just to appease Donald Trump and Trump’s base, but because he felt like Josh Hawley had gotten out ahead of him on it,” Wilson told the podcast Y’all-itics this week.
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And so The Lincoln Project has decided he must pay.
Hawley and Cruz, both rumored to be eyeing 2024 presidential runs, were two of the most vocal challengers of the 2020 election results. Many blame them for encouraging domestic terrorists to storm the U.S. Capitol.
Wilson called the failed coup “overtly seditious” and suggested The Lincoln Project might also go after other GOP lawmakers who participated in the effort, saying “there is a caucus of these guys right now.”
“These guys have realized that this was a very, very bad move legally, politically, morally, constitutionally,” he added.
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In addition to having The Lincoln Project announce it was coming for him this week, a group of Senate Democrats filed an ethics complaint against Cruz, asking for an investigation into the whether he “engaged in criminal conduct or unethical or improper behavior.”
On Wednesday, a gaggle of protestors calling themselves “Pallbearers for Cruz” left three coffins in the front yard of his Houston home declaring his political career dead and calling for his resignation.
Oh, and on top of all that, Cruz got owned by actor Seth Rogan on Twitter.
If you’re a white supremacist fascist who doesn’t find it offensive when someone calls your wife ugly, Ted Cruz is the exact motherfucker for you. https://t.co/w4zdynI2V9
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) January 21, 2021
Like we said, it hasn’t been a great week if your name is Ted Cruz.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Mister P
Ted Cruz is bad news.
Fahd
Cruz should be expelled from the Senate or at least censured. If not, the democrats are going to have to do better than cute, but dumb Beto O’Rourke to defeat him. Texas has among the worst voter suppression problems in the nation. If that could be fixed, the last republican stronghold that makes them dangerous could be eliminated – I can dream.
LMG
Your remark about Beto is insulting, wrong, and unworthy. Don’t confuse being a knowledgeable gentleman with being dumb. Using Beto as a standard, 80% of Republican senators are dumb; and I’m not so sure about the remaining 25% (I’m using the NEW math). Were it not for a last minute endorsement by Lard Ass and funding by billionaires, the groveling slimy Cruz would not have been reelected. Beto came closer to beating him than anyone else.
jmitch147
I’m sure the 3 coffins that were so disgustingly put in Mr Cruz’s yard had nothing to do with his career! It has more to do with inciting VIOLENCE! If this had been done to a left wing looney, they would throw the party responsible in jail! Or better yet, they would probably hang them! All of this because he fought for what he believed tobe true! Like at least have of our country believes! What do you plan on doing about the rest of us?? Good luck with that! All I have to say is you better not come close to my door! ?
Cam
Awwww, look at the right wing trolls, desperately trying to deflect from the fact that Republicans instigated a riot of Trump supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol and overturn American Democracy. And you’re trying to paint one of the instigators of that riot as the victim.
It must get exhausting trying to come up with new reasons to cry about Republicans being victims.
AxelDC
They should put 421 in his yard to represent the 421k Americans who died of COVID.
jsmu
Beeyotch PUHLEEZE. PootyPootPOOT is going to fire your lame ass and send you back to Irkutsk if you can’t troll any better than this–and it’s winter there. LOL!
Mack
If you’re going to troll and post stupidity please learn how to spell. HAVE isn’t the correct spelling of HALF
seadrian
Ted Cruz was completely aware that what he was telling the Trump cult was lies. First, nothing in the Constitution allows one state to challenge another states election rules or results. He was simply pandering to Trump supporters as a means to seek campaign contributions. He relies on corporate and PAC donations because he can’t get donations from his constituents.
Ted Cruz has one of the worst attendence records of the entire Senate and only holds town halls with corporate donors and has never held an open meeting with any working class constituents. His office is in Houston where he is pretty much hated.
Cruz (and his father) are both homophobes that attend the annual National Religious Liberties Conference, hosted by pastor Kevin Swanson, who preaches sermons supporting putting homosexuals to death.
AxelDC
Cruz is an Internet troll who infiltrated the US Senate.
butchqueen
Fist him with crushed glass and Crisco.
yendor808
No. He shouldn’t be “punished” with something that gives him pleasure. Just wire his jaws shut.
tjack47
He is a Senator along with John Cornhole Cornyn here in the more purple state of Texas. Also, Ronny Jackson the former physician for Trump is our Congressman. I loathe all three, but the worst by far is Cruz. To think Republicans had him 2nd in the Presidential race is mind-boggling. It says a great deal about the GOP who weren’t Trumpsters from the get go. I want to see him ousted as much as I wanted to see Trump gone. Beto O’Rourke came so close to defeating him. We still have 4 years to look at his gob, before his term is up. I’d love to see that term end yesterday.
missvamp
i agree more than i can say. we’d be so much better off with beto. how people keep voting for him. cornyn & abbott is beyond me. we have to get our state out of the republitard dark ages. bush ruined us!
Invader7
I loved the coffins in Heidi & Ted front yard. Maybe a foretelling of his slimy political career. Another republithug leech !!
jsmu
Rafael COOZE barely ever weaselled its way into office in the first place–one of the lowest voter turnouts ever, in a special election, I believe. TexAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
Celtic
Cruz exited the womb corrupted and a total ass hole. Can’t put that one back in the tunnel.
ShiningSex
They have NO chance to become president.
Cruz is anti-gay? I thought he was gay. LOL
Choderus
He is and he is. It’s one reason he hates himself so and makes laws trying to outlaw his very being, to which he responds by standing outside his own house protesting the asshole living inside.
Mike Hunt
Ted Cruz has a severe case of SPS, which as we all know is Small Penis Syndrome.
Roger Doremus
Poor Ted Cruz: Every patriot’s favorite Cuban-Canadian.
Everyday he looks increasingly like a grizzled Poppin’ Fresh.
tangent
It’s rare that you come across someone with zero redeeming qualities. Cruz has shown that he’s nothing more than a lost soul struggling to impress the class loser. Trump may be the kid in class who farts and eats bugs to gross everyone out, but at least he had a TV show.
Michael1500
Being a lifelong Texan (72, and a retired judge) and closely following politics, let me say that Ted Cruz is the worst of the worst. I’m a moderate, neither Republican or Democrat, and I’m sometimes conservative, sometimes liberal, depending upon the issue. I used to be a Republican before the crazies took over Texas. But Cruz is SPECIAL—- he is the biggest political whore I’ve ever encountered, changing like a chameleon with what he thinks would or will get him votes. I’ve never seen such a simpering hypocrite. Like Trump, he’ll implode and fry in his own juices.