Texas US Senator Ted Cruz IS worried about losing his job….

The guy IS in a tight race all the sudden….

And trying to hide from his rightwingnut Repoublican past….

By November 5th?

He won’t be the only one….

 

Facing a tight re-election race, hardline Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is now claiming that he’s a bipartisan champion of reaching across the aisle.

“What is new is not that I’m passing bipartisan legislation that helps produce jobs in Texas,” Cruz—one of Congress’ most resolutely partisan members, so much so that many of his own colleagues reportedly hate him—told Politicoon Monday. “I’ve been doing that since the day I arrived in the Senate. What is new is we’re finally getting the press to report on it.”

The site noted Cruz’s bipartisan achievements—“new, trade-promoting bridges across the Rio Grande; tax relief for hurricane victims; and the most recent FAA Reauthorization Act”—but then also flagged his opposition to major across-the-aisle initiatives like the CHIPS and Science Act and the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. His Texas colleague in the Senate, John Cornyn, supported both.

Cruz was also viscerally opposed to the bipartisan border bill that failed in May, alleging that “the Democrats deliberately want this border crisis to continue.”

An index of Senate bipartisanship by the Lugar Center and Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy—measuring how much a legislator co-sponsors bills introduced by the opposite party and how much their bills attract sponsorship from the opposite party—ranked Cruz 89th out of 98 senators.

In other words, the man who routinely lambastes Democrats as trying to destroy America, the man who wrote a book called Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America, and the man who can’t even say whether he will recognize the outcome of the election is, unsurprisingly, one of the least bipartisan senators….

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Cruz’s rhetorical claims to bipartisanship have an obvious rationale: He’s running for re-election in a close race against Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX), a former NFL player who represents a Dallas district, and once stoutly Republican Texas has slowly shifted blue in recent election cycles.

Allred has raised a massive war chest, outspending Cruz nearly 2-to-1 on general election TV ads, and recent polls have shown Cruz leading by just one or two points….

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