“I think we have an opportunity for a historic election.”Ĭruz voted against certifying results of the 2020 presidential election that resulted in Biden ousting Trump from the White House. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)Ĭruz, who ran for president in 2016 and engaged in an acrimonious contest won by Donald Trump, said he wasn’t concentrating on the upcoming 2024 presidential campaign. Adkins is in a tight race in the 3rd District held by Democratic U.S. Ted Cruz, both Republicans, speak with reporters following a Friday campaign rally in Ottawa. “The contrast between these two candidates could not be clearer,” said Vicki Hiatt, chairwoman of the Kansas Democratic Party. House Republicans released a broad policy agenda, endorsed by Adkins, that would halt congressional efforts to cut prescription drug costs and would financially undermine Medicare benefits. The law signed in August by Biden, and endorsed by Davids, would lower health premiums for 13 million Americans, restrict prescription drug prices and take steps toward health equity.ĭavids said the law was crafted to reduce health insurance premiums for Kansans an average of $980 per year and increase access to coverage for thousands of Kansans. While Adkins was in Ottawa, Davids was in Kansas City, Kansas, with the Protect Our Care bus tour created to highlight provisions of the federal Inflation Reduction Act designed to drive down health costs. “Amanda Adkins bringing Ted Cruz to Kansas proves exactly what she would support if she made it to Congress - abortion bans, slashes to Medicare and Social Security and election denialism.” “I came today because I believe in truth,” said Ottawa resident Eileen Gannon. Several said afterward they were drawn to the opportunity to personally express support for Davids and to take advantage of the rare chance to put a stamp of disapproval on Cruz. “Politics has always been fairly looney, but where we are now, there ain’t ever been anything like it.”Ī couple clusters of Davids supporters heckled Cruz during his remarks, but it was difficult for people at the rally to hear what the picketers were saying. “She’s willing to stand up and fight the crazed lunatics who are tearing our country apart,” Cruz said. House because she loved Kansas and freedom, operated a business and opposed calls to defund the police.
Adkins lost the 2020 race to Davids, but the district was gerrymandered to improve Adkins’ prospects.Ĭruz said Adkins deserved to be elected to the U.S. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector) Truth and courageĬruz, in the midst of his “Truth and Courage Bus Tour,” shared political insights with hundreds of people gathered for the outdoor rally organized to generate support for Republican congressional candidate Amanda Adkins, who is again challenging U.S. Bird said Cruz had a narrow range of political beliefs and was dismissive of ideas different from his own. Ottawa resident Beth Bird, second from right, picketed the rally with U.S. We’re going to see not just a wave election, but a tsunami,” the senator said. He said the string of domestic and international policy failures by Democrats was “impressive,” given that rolling dice or throwing darts would have produced a few good outcomes simply by luck.
#SENATOR TED CRUZ DRIVER#
On the other hand, Cruz said, all the problems of Democrats put Republicans in the driver seat of a presidential midterm election cycle to retake the U.S. He mocked unpopular public health mandates requiring people to wear masks in public in a state where nearly 10,000 people died of COVID-19. He said blue-state tyrants floundered during the COVID-19 pandemic by closing schools, churches and businesses.
#SENATOR TED CRUZ CRACK#
Actually, it’s so bad Hunter Biden can’t afford crack cocaine.”
“Heck, it’s so bad Antifa can’t afford bricks.
“You’ve got inflation out of control,” Cruz said.
He tied together this national crisis by pointing to an anti-racist political movement known as Antifa and by making light of substance abuse challenges of Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden. At the same time, he said, illegal immigration flourished and murder rates soared. Cruz said Americans were getting hammered by skyrocketing prices for everything from groceries to gasoline, rent to lumber and electricity to health care. The firebrand Texan sifted through the standard GOP midterm election talking points about rampant crime, the porous southern border and raging inflation. Ted Cruz delivered a scorched-earth political speech Friday during a bus-tour pitstop to outline shortcomings of Democratic leaders that made him feel like weeping in grief for the country and celebrating an emerging opportunity for Republicans.
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