Pollster blames Ted Cruz's tough re-election race on his notorious Cancun scandal

[Eugene]

Pollster blames Ted Cruz’s tough re-election race on his notorious Cancun scandal (The Independent)

The pundit characterized Cruz as a “polarizing” figure who could be vulnerable to Allred on issues like abortion and his record in office.

But there’s another issue that Cruz

“I was watching a focus group a couple of weeks ago of undecided Trump voters in this Senate race, and they immediately brought up Cancun,” she continued.

“He was very much assailed for this. There was sort of this iconic image of him coming back, rolling a suitcase with a Texas [Covid] mask.

“Allred features that in a lot of his ads. Talks about Ted Cruz abandoned us when we needed him.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ted-cruz-senate-race-cancun-colin-allred-b2624024.html

Alternate link: https://news.yahoo.com/news/pollster-blames-ted-cruz-tough-162810387.html

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The pundit is Jessica Taylor, Senior Editor of The Cook Political Report.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Republicans are so in control of Texas

Can't imagine how a Republican couldn't get elected. Outside the scope of a fair count is voter purges, eligibility.

[jimfields33]

3. He's another one that is to blame for a potential loss.

It’s completely self induced. Even republicans can’t stand him and it’s his own fault. Luckily for us, I truly believe his time in the senate is short.

[malaise]

2. Great news

Rec

[displacedvermoter]

4. Blamed it on his daughters

but overlooked in the whole thing were emails from a friend about what a great value the place they were going to was, even though it was way beyond the means of most of his constituents, even before they were rocked by the pandemic and the power outages. He just lives in a different world, and doesn't care.

And doubly nice, one of the "friends" leaked the emails to the media! Nobody likes Ted, family, friends, or family dog.

[DoBW]

5. cruz ... useless as the day is long