Republican Sen. Ted Cruz is touting himself as a bipartisan legislator as polls present his Democratic rival, Rep. Colin Allred, inside placing distance within the Texas Senate race. However Cruz’s latest partisan actions and observe document as a senator disprove his claims of neutrality.
A latest ballot from Public Coverage Polling reveals Cruz forward of Allred by 1 proportion level, whereas a ballot from Emerson School had Cruz forward by 4. Cruz gained his first Senate race in 2012 by practically 16 factors, whereas his 2018 reelection bid vs. Beto O’Rourke was a lot nearer—Cruz gained that race by a mere 2.6 factors.
“What is new is not that I’m passing bipartisan legislation that helps produce jobs in Texas. I’ve been doing that since the day I arrived in the Senate,” Cruz insisted in an interview with Politico.
The stalwart Donald Trump ally has been making an attempt to melt his picture as a conservative tradition warrior throughout the present election cycle.
However his Senate voting historical past tells a distinct story
The Lugar Middle and the Georgetown College McCourt Faculty of Public Coverage launched a report in Could rating senators by how bipartisan their votes had been in the latest session of Congress. Out of 98 senators (the bulk and minority leaders had been excluded), Cruz ranked 89th. Actually, Cruz has turn into extra partisan by this measure, since he ranked eighty fifth within the earlier report.
His latest political stances additionally name Cruz’s try at reinvention into query.
Cruz was amongst the 50 senators that voted towards cloture for a bipartisan border safety invoice, inflicting it to fall in need of the 60 votes wanted for a full vote within the Senate. In his assertion saying his opposition, Cruz referred to a “literal invasion of millions upon millions of illegal aliens”
Allred criticized Cruz’s actions in a Sept. 27 look on MSNBC’s “The Last Word.”
“It’s kind of a joke that Ted Cruz comes down to south Texas and puts on his outdoor clothes and tries to look tough, and then goes back to Washington and does nothing at all to help,” Allred stated.
Cruz has additionally championed different right-wing initiatives that run counter to any claims of bipartisanship.
The Texas senator was amongst those that tried to usurp the results of the 2020 election, gained by President Joe Biden. Cruz represented Trump in lawsuits searching for to disqualify votes for Biden in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia. In a 2022 tv look, Cruz wouldn’t acknowledge that Biden had gained the race.
In 2013, Cruz engaged in a 21-hour filibuster that held up funding of the federal authorities, whereas making the argument that the Reasonably priced Care Act (generally referred to as Obamacare) must be defunded.
His actions contributed to a 21-day authorities shutdown, finally costing the nation over $24 billion in misplaced financial output.
