“What Hollywood says and what the left says on the question of gender, I think has gotten really nutty,” he said at a Texas Tribune Festival in September 2020, defending a joke he made after late-night host Trevor Noah satirized “gender reveal” parties.Ī smoke bomb at a California party had just sparked a deadly wildfire. In the past, the senator has indicated that the vilification he whips up only proves his point. Cruz is willing to say or do anything to rile up the most radical segments of his fan base in order to hold on to power.”Ĭruz’s office declined to offer a comment. Cruz’s dangerous anti-LGBTQ propaganda leads to stigma and violence against trans and non-binary people…. “Normally the thing politicians would do is stay above the fray,” he said.īut voters “relish that kind of combativeness,” he said, adding “there’s a much greater tendency today than in the pre-Trump years for politicians to embrace the opportunity to trade vulgar insults” with detractors.Īt the Human Rights Campaign, Justin Unga, director of strategic initiatives, asserted that “Sen. The uproar gained steam days later when Franken guest hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live! The former Saturday Night Live writer overlapped in the Senate with Cruz for five years and resigned his Minnesota seat amid allegations of inappropriate conduct in early 2018.
Trump probably kept it in the safe at Mar-a-Lago and now the FBI has it.” So did jabs about Cruz kowtowing to former President Donald Trump after calling him a “pathological liar” during their bitter 2016 rivalry.Ĭruz “may think Elizabeth Warren has a penis,” tweeted one progressive detractor, “but we all know Donald Trump took Ted’s when he emasculated him in public by insulting his wife and claiming his father was involved in the JFK assassination. Suggestions that Warren, a grandmother, is better endowed below the belt than Texas’ junior senator quickly proliferated on social media. “In today’s Democrat Party, how do we know she doesn’t?” “Elizabeth Warren told reporters that a guy came up to her and said, `I would have voted for you if only you had a penis,’” Cruz recounted Aug. “What is wrong with him?” George Takei, Star Trek’s “Sulu” and a vocal gay activist, tweeted after Cruz’s comments about Warren.
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