4.12 Electoral College vote count and storming of the United States Capitol.4.8 Friction with fellow Republican members of Congress.After the January 2021 Capitol attack, Cruz provoked widespread political and popular backlash for objecting to the certification of Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election and giving credence to the false claim that the election was stolen from Trump. While Cruz initially declined to endorse Trump's campaign once he won the nomination, he became a staunch Trump supporter during his presidency.
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The competition for the Republican presidential nomination between Trump and Cruz was deeply acrimonious and characterized by a series of public personal attacks. In 2016, Cruz ran for president of the United States, placing second behind Donald Trump in the Republican primaries. He was reelected in a close Senate race in 2018 against Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke. In the Senate, Cruz has taken consistently conservative positions on economic and social policy he played a leading role in the 2013 United States federal government shutdown, seeking to force Congress and President Barack Obama to defund the Affordable Care Act. Senate, becoming the first Hispanic-American to serve as a U.S. Bush administration before serving as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008.
He worked as a policy advisor in the George W. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz served as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008.Īfter graduating from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Cruz pursued a career in politics. Just realized who Snowflake reminds me of and Edward " Ted" Cruz ( / k r uː z/ born December 22, 1970) is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator for Texas since 2013. That didn’t stop Twitter users from calling Cruz out anew for leaving the poor dog in icy cold Houston - though it seems that at least some power had been restored to his neighborhood by Thursday - or just dunking on him for adding yet another humiliating wrinkle to the story. Don’t worry, apparently Cruz had a security guard at his house who apparently has been taking care of Snowflake.Īlso Read: Ted Cruz Uses His Daughters as Excuse for Cancun Trip Amid Texas Power Outage And he also unearthed the 2014 Facebook post in which Cruz first unveiled the dog’s unfortunately on-the-nose name.
On Thursday, New York Magazine writer Michael Hardy broke the story that Cruz left the dog behind despite the freezing temperatures and widespread power outages affecting millions of Texans. Which is how we all found out Cruz’s dog’s name: Snowflake. But he found a way to make the whole bad day become ridiculous, thanks to his decision to leave the family dog behind at his Houston home while the family bounced for Mexico. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has had an absolutely humiliating 24 hours, thanks to his ill-advised decision to take a luxury vacation to Cancun, Mexico, in the middle of the worst weather disaster to hit his home state in generations, try in vain to hide it, then after getting caught trying to blame his daughters for his decision.Ĭruz has pretty much been the main character on Twitter ever since, with the vast majority of discourse devoted to either condemning his tone-deaf disregard for his constituents, or dunking on him for it.
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