He’s just so stupid:
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tried to show some support on Twitter for the Houston Rockets as the team faced the Golden State Warriors on Monday night.
Cruz was not only mocked for his tweet, but some even blamed him for the team’s defeat, using the #CruzCurse hashtag.
Click the Huffington Post link here to see the hilarious Tweets and reactions of Cruz getting Owned again.
Because Cruz can’t seem to get enough of making a complete ass of himself, he then tried to challenge Jimmy Kimmel on this:
In a very strange tweet Wednesday night, the Texas Senator issued a formal challenge to Jimmy Kimmel...essentially challenging him to a duel disguised as a game of one-on-one.
All of this started because Jimmy went IN on Cruz after he attended the Rockets' loss to Golden State earlier this week.
And of course, Kimmel responded:
Seriously, what a fucking joke. Now, let’s address the elephant in the room. Quinnipiac, who’s April poll showed Cruz edging Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX) by just three points, had a new poll out and it wasn’t the results we wanted:
With a big boost from men, Republican incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz leads U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, his Democratic challenger, 50 - 39 percent in the Texas Senate race, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll released today.
This compares to the results of an April 18 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University, showing the race too close to call with Sen. Cruz at 47 percent and O'Rourke at 44 percent.
Today, Cruz leads 57 - 35 percent among men, up from 51 - 40 percent April 18. Women go 44 percent for Cruz and 42 percent for O'Rourke, compared to last month when women went 47 percent for O'Rourke and 43 percent for Cruz.
Cruz gets 46 percent of Hispanic voters, with 44 percent for O'Rourke. White voters back Cruz 62 - 28 percent and black voters go to O'Rourke 70 - 15 percent.
Republicans go to Cruz 90 - 3 percent, as Democrats go to O'Rourke 82 - 11 percent. Independent voters are divided with 43 percent for O'Rourke and 41 percent for Cruz.
Texas voters approve 52 - 39 percent of the job Cruz is doing and give him a 49 - 38 percent favorability rating. O'Rourke gets a 30 - 19 percent favorability rating, while 50 percent of voters don't know enough about him to form an opinion of him.
Immigration, health care and the economy are the most important issues in their U.S. Senate vote, as 23 percent of Texas voters cite each of these issues, with 17 percent for gun policy.
"Sen. Ted Cruz, apparently benefitting from a nationwide Republican mini-move, has taken a solid lead in his reelection race," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Poll.
"President Donald Trump's Texas numbers also have climbed during those six weeks moving from a nine point deficit on job approval to an even split today. It is hard not to see a pro- Cruz effect there."
"Finally, U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke's lead among independent voters has shrunk," Brown added. "Sen. Cruz has improved his standing among some key groups, including independent voters, Hispanic voters and men."
Ok, not the results we were hoping for and it’s a headscratcher that how these results could do a complete reverse within over a little more than a month. However, the great people at the Daily Kos Election Team point this out:
It's hard to believe that GOP fortunes have improved dramatically over the last few weeks, and much more likely that the school's first poll was just off base. And indeed, we wrote back in April that we were skeptical about the Quinnipiac poll showing Cruz on the brink of defeat and Abbott in real danger. As we've been saying for years, if a poll feels too good to be true, it probably is (just as the inverse is often the case), and this new survey is only another reminder of that.
However, just because that April survey was probably too rosy for Democrats doesn't mean that this new one is right on target. The only other poll we've seen over the last month was from the GOP firm JMC Analytics on behalf of Red Metrics Group, and they found a more modest 47-40 lead for Cruz, as well as a 48-36 edge for Abbott, respectively. We can't say which poll is closer to the mark, because again, we've only seen three surveys since January.
We'll also reiterate what we said even when we doubted Quinnipiac's first poll. O'Rourke has benefited from Democratic enthusiasm both in Texas and across the nation, and he has more resources than a Lone Star State Democratic Senate candidate has had in a long time. Cruz still faces a serious challenge—as Daily Kos Elections’ David Beard argued he could from the moment O’Rourke launched his campaign a year ago.
The latest poll only polled 961 voters. In a state like Texas which is huge and diverse, it’s incredibly possible to have poll numbers fluctuate like this. But I also view polling Texas the same way I viewed polling in Alabama’s Senate race last year. Both are red states that rarely get extensive polling and polling between Doug Jones (D. AL) and Roy Moore (R. AL) was all over the place. It ranged from Jones having a small lead to Moore having a comfortable lead to both men being tied. That was such a rare race that shouldn’t have been competitive for the GOP in the first place. In fact, no polling firm really knew what to predict about this race. The only poll that came close to getting it right was Monmouth University’s last poll which was so uncertain they painted three scenarios. The morning of that election, I had a great feeling that Jones was going to win. I was the only person in my office that predicted Jones would win because I knew he could energize that base. We have black women in Alabama to thank for stopping Alabama from sending a pedophile to the U.S. Senate.
Texas is bigger and more diverse and Trump only won it by 8 points. That’s absolutely terrible for a GOP presidential candidate. I’m optimistic about Beto’s chances this year because in his interview on Real Time with Bill Maher, he perfectly nailed why Texas is a red state: low voter turnout:
Beto has his thumb on the pulse on the state and knows deep down inside, there is a blue electorate ready to flip the state. That’s why he’s been touring the entire state tirelessly and has been unapologetic about his progressive agenda and refusing to take corporate Super PAC money. Beto understands that he can’t be this conservative Democrat trying to appeal to Republican voters. For him, it’s all about turning out the base:
Cruz has conceded that Democrats are motivated and would "walk across glass" to vote in November, though he adds that there are more conservatives in Texas and if they show up, he wins.
For O'Rourke and other Democrats, turning out the Democratic base is more important than appealing to Republicans. The more new Democrats that show up at the polls means one less conservative O'Rourke has to recruit.
Texas is a state with a deep divide between Republicans and Democrats, so the candidate with the most productive base of support generally wins. There are few independents or crossover voters to make that much of a difference.
And yeas, changing demographics are also playing a role in this race:
Flanked by a nine-piece mariachi band, U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez leaned on Beto O'Rourke’s roots while introducing his congressional colleague to a crowd of Rio Grande Valley residents at a recent campaign event.
“Beto is one of us,” Gonzalez told the nearly 400 people who crowded into a local football stadium concourse on a humid May afternoon. “He’s from the border. ... He understands our culture. El nos conoce.” ("He knows us," the McAllen congressman said.)
It was one of just a few nods O’Rourke, his supporters and the Hispanic campaign surrogates joining him on a four-day swing through the border would make to the Democratic candidate’s ties to the border and to the state’s Hispanic community. The next morning, O’Rourke opened a town hall at a McAllen park by speaking almost completely in Spanish. And later that day in Laredo, a band warming up the standing-room only crowd played Tito Puente’s “Oye Como Va” before the lead singer remarked, “We finally got a candidate from the border.”
Around the same time this month, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was huddling with a group of Hispanic business owners at a Mexican restaurant in downtown Houston. One of the organizers, longtime Cruz supporter Jacob Monty, admitted some of his friends were skeptical he could get Latinos to turn out for the senator, but he sought to prove them wrong. About 30 business owners ended up attending, and Monty estimated he could've gotten 100 if they had a bigger venue.
"The issue I always start with is we need more Latino senators, not fewer Latino senators, and you can say whatever you want about a particular vote, but Ted is Hispanic," Monty said. "He is Latino."
The split-screen campaigning by Cruz and O'Rourke illustrated their unique — even peculiar — connections to a Hispanic community that many see as the future of Texas politics. O'Rourke is white but has spent most his life on the Texas-Mexico border and has imbued himself with Hispanic culture, while Cruz is a Cuban-American from Houston whose political career is not as often closely associated with his Hispanic identity.
The ways in which the two candidates’ unique relationships with the Hispanic community have already intersected in the high-profile race are numerous. There was Cruz’s ridiculing of O’Rourke’s first name “Beto” even though Cruz is best known by his own diminutive nickname. There was O’Rourke's conspicuous underperformance in border counties that called into question his support among Hispanic voters. And more recently, there was O’Rourke’s request to debate Cruz twice in Spanish, though Cruz is anything but fluent in the language.
And while the Hispanic vote in Texas strongly leans Democratic, neither candidate appears to be taking anything for granted.
“The Hispanic community in Texas is a conservative community,” Cruz said in a recent interview. “The values that resonate in our community are faith, family, patriotism ... and the American Dream.”
So don’t get discouraged if the polling is all over the place. Cruz himself is worried about high voter turnout and Beto knows that’s the key to winning. So let’s help him turn out the voters and unseat Cruz. Click here to donate and get involved with Beto’s campaign.