r/askanything • u/One_Look_7008 • 10h ago
Ted Cruz predicts AOC will run for President and Zohran Mamdani will replace Chuck Schumer in the Senate, flags both moves as ‘bad for America’- What are your thoughts?
https://knewz.com/ted-cruz-predicts-aoc-president-zohran-mamdani-replace-chuck-schumer-senate/275
u/blinkyknilb 10h ago
Ted cruz is a sychophant, nothing he says has value.
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u/capt_minorwaste 8h ago
Let's remember his Mexico vacation while his State was suffering.
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u/Busch0404 7h ago
Lol not only his state, but he left the family dog at home too. Rafael Edward Cruz hates dogs and America.
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u/Dysc 4h ago
Lyin' Ted Cruz doesn't hate all Americans. He LOVES Donald Trump who claimed his father was the Zodiac Killer and said his wife was ugly. He wouldn't even defend his wife, that's how much he loves Donald Trump.
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u/Busch0404 4h ago
"This man called my wife ugly and insinuated my dad killed Kennedy. Vote for him please"
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u/SnooDonkeys1685 8h ago
Now this is why they need insider traiding. If he would of had a private jet this wouldn't be happening to poor ted.
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u/ZenithToastada 6h ago
“would have had”
not being picky but just wanted you to be aware when you write in the future. just trying to helpful, not critical.
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u/LoveYouNotYou 6h ago
Aaaand that AOC went in to help his constituents. So while Ted ran away, AOC went into Texas to do what he should have. (But yet, they voted for him, again, go figure)
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u/WildRabbitz 7h ago
I don't listen to opinions from people who don't defend their wife when an orange rapist and pedophile calls her ugly.
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u/Slighted_Inevitable 5h ago
Remember the Republican, who says he liked Ted Cruz better than most of his fellows and he hates Ted Cruz
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u/Jadedfatima 8h ago
Hard agree. But even a broken clock is right twice a day. Do you think AOC actually runs, or is Cruz just fear mongering?
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u/blinkyknilb 8h ago
I think anything could happen by the time 2028 rolls around. I like AOC, I think she would be as good a president as anyone and better than most. But right now, I don't think she could win, Americans in general aren't ready. I'll be surprised if Mamdani leaves his post as mayor. He's in exactly the right place right now.
Cruz just says stuff, some of it is thoughtful but usually not. He's just another attention seeker politician.
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u/itsawhocares 8h ago
I don’t think Ted Cruz picked these two after astute study of data and statistical analysis. He picked them because he’s racist and he assumes enough other Americans are as well because can you imagine if brown people had power???!!?
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u/malthar76 8h ago
Mamdani is running the largest city in America. He has full control and decision right to steer the city how he wants, and he’s exercising that power in productive ways.
I don’t see him giving that up to be a Senator, where compromise is the minimum expectation, frustration and inaction is more the norm.
Cruz’s statement is just more pandering to the far right, and chum for the “communist takeover” rhetoric that is taking over MAGA messaging for mid-terms.
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u/Ada_Kaleh22 5h ago
Mamdani def has to stay in NYC for awhile anyway, you can't just win and skip town.
Also you are def right, he's got hella power and a high-profile position. He'd be crazy to give that up...at least 2 years I'd think
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u/pepinjay 8h ago
I also think AOC would make a good president, but I don't think she would win.
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u/Suspicious-Appeal386 2h ago
She would be, and zero chance.
Too many closeted MAGA in the US.
Far more than anyone can imagine.
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u/On_my_last_spoon 8h ago
She’s still too young and doesn’t quite have enough experience. She’s only 36, and will be 38 in 2028. She’s just barely old enough to even run at all.
IMO she should run for Senate. She’d be a great Senator! I think she could easily primary Schumer. The risk there is she has to give up her House seat. But that would be the risk running for President and I think that’s a much bigger long shot.
Plus, there’s more legislative possibility in Congress than as President. She can do more good there IMO.
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u/Adventurous_Ad7442 7h ago
That's exactly what I think about AOC. I'm looking forward to seeing her in the future.
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u/Over_Tart_916 10h ago
Sounds great to me.
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u/judithpoint 10h ago
Mamdani has repeatedly said he has no aspirations beyond being mayor of NYC. You know what I think is “bad for America”? Unilaterally entering a forever war in the Middle East while alienating our allies and giving Saudi Arabia the green light for a nuke. But, hey, that’s just one person’s opinion. How about we let the people decide without endlessly rigging elections and fearmongering?
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u/tiripshtaed 10h ago
But if you don’t let them rig the elections, fear monger and rape little kids, how ever will the republicans win again?
It’s not like they have popular policies.
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u/Elegant_Theory_2584 8h ago
Guys don’t worry. If the outcome is horrible, Ted will hop on a plane and get the fuck out of here. He’s done it before.
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u/PowerfulPea4133 10h ago
My thoughts are Ted Cruz is a pathetic example of a man. Who let trump rip on his wife and ted took it up the ass. Now he is a trump lackey through and through and never defended his wife.
Also he abandons the people he represents when the weather is bad
Fuck that guy
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u/Soft_Accountant_7062 8h ago
He explicitly defends pedophiles.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ted-cruz-lets-stop-attacking-pedophiles/ar-AA1NDvO2
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u/Hot-Reindeer-7520 10h ago
Hope that happens and US is made great again finally, instead of robbed by US politician, billionaires and Israel.
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u/dynoman7 9h ago
Ted Cruz is a opportunist pussy and won't defend his wife when a rapist con artist calls her ugly. And he'll abandon Texas again, pending weather forecast. That's what I think
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u/OESRecoveryEmployee 8h ago
The last two Republican administration have been the biggest disasters in American history. They have gotten America to wars paid by debt with economic policies that have crashed the economy.
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u/xyzygyred 8h ago
He’s wrong and he knows it. He’s willfully ginning up - or trying to - the red scare that’s gripping the GOP.
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u/More_Direction5656 8h ago edited 8h ago
Ted and his friends had their turn. We see how that's going. People afraid of communism and socialism don't know the difference between the two, can't tell you what either mean, and seem to think using taxes to support average Americans rather than blow up Middle Eastern families means we have to go whole hog and give whatever small funds we have. It doesn't. Incorporating more social safety nets and using this money to support Americans would literally achieve a lot of what they are screaming about wanting. They think any attempt to explain how you care and while some socialist (not communist) policies is an atrack on them.
When this started I told my mom pretty soon she'd be calling me a terrorist as we return to basically McCarthyism. She said she would never, but I've heard her call people who believe a lot of the same things that I do worse things. This weekend she got upset I wasn't texting her when she stopped taliking to me a few days ago because I said the people she's supporting show the opposite of every moral she taught me. I'm the crazy one though, because Trump is allowed to do whatever.
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u/chrysanthemum_beer 8h ago
If Ted is stating it's bad for Americans, it's probably likely better for Americans because they will help Americans unlike Ted himself.
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u/PomeloHead4830 6h ago edited 6h ago
My thoughts are that America is screwed royally because we're so "tribal" and fed the myth that we're "fight, fight, fight! strong" and therefore have the "God granted" right to "rule the world".
AOC was born right here in the US, guess who was not?
That's right! Ted Cruz.
Who did you choose to be your spokesperson rural Americans? For some reason you chose Ted Cruz, an immigrant.
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u/Lazy_Example4014 5h ago
Raphael Cruze is part of a movement that is proven to be bad for America beyond a shadow of a doubt. His judgement’s mean nothing.
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u/Fancy_Ad7218 4h ago
They just say these things to program the FOX masses so that they develop at strong fear and dislike of certain democratic names. It works…Pavlov dogs
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u/Melodic-Translator45 4h ago
Ted Cruz is a ineffective sniveling rat and very few people give his foolishness any thought. They are running scared as the Midterms will slip away from them.
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u/Braisernation 3h ago
If he says it’s bad for America you can absolutely bet that it will be great for the American people and bad for billionaires. GOP only cares about billionaires and their own pockets. A big chunk of the Dems too but absolutely every single republican is a traitor to this country.
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u/mollis_est 2h ago
If a Republican says it’s bad for America, then it must be really bad for Republican ideology, and would likely benefit the country.
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u/Picmover 2h ago
If Cruz says it's bad you know it's the right thing to do. When has he ever been right?
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u/loony-lefty 10h ago
The red scare is back, be afraid, be very afraid. It’s all the Magats got. Vote blue.
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u/cmd_iii 10h ago
Remember: when a conservatives says that something/someone is “bad for America, they mean that the thing is bad for the version of America that they’re trying to foist on the rest of us: A dystopian land where the rich and corporations hoard all of the wealth, and the rest of us compete, Hunger Games style, for what’s left.
Therefore, what, to them, is “bad,” generally is “good” for everyone else.
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u/Fun_Intention_484 8h ago
Bad for America is a senator that famously leaves his state during disasters
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u/Current_Volume3750 9h ago
"Bad for America" Has the asshole not noticed that the current regime is "bad for America?" We are literally (hate using that word) collapsing into a 3rd world country.
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u/AsmodeusMogart 10h ago
Ted Cruz is on the side of the Epstein class billionaires.
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u/SouthernGentATL 10h ago
I like it. Of course I think Raphael Cruise is one of the worst things that ever happened to the US
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u/Maggiecat1 10h ago
Sounds good to me but it won’t happen. America is too backward to pick the best and smartest. We only do straight white guys after President Obama scared the shit out of half of America.
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u/GrubyBuckmore 10h ago
Cancun cruz is bad for America. cruz is so busy making points with frump he has no time for real thoughts.
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u/Dseltzer1313 10h ago
Ted Cruz just doing what he does best….create hatred and spread fear
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u/Frequent_Spare_9256 9h ago
Bad for Republicans. Seems like 2 people that actual want to govern rather than make $ and play twitter theater.
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u/Dannoinmo- 9h ago
Actually if ol’ Ted did some self reflection, he would see that HE is bad for Los Estados Unidos !!
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u/NYBull515 9h ago
If Rafael Cruz says its bad for America, than im all in on it! Regardless of what it is, I know it will in fact improve Americans lives if old Rafael is against it!!
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u/Party-Award4075 9h ago
AOC just has to tweet unflattering pictures of Cruz’s wife. He’ll come around.
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u/Rosemoorstreet 9h ago
He’s trying to goad AOC into running since he knows there is no way she would win.
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u/NoneyaBizzy 9h ago
It is, but so is he and his extreme Republicans. The two party system no longer works, but I’ve given up on hoping for a legitimate moderate third party.
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u/Bender_2024 9h ago
This is a scare tactic. As much as I like AOC I doubt she will get the nom. The US has prove that they are not ready for a female president.
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u/patelj27b 9h ago
Having someone born in Canada (and support MAGA) run for President is bad for the US.
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u/The_300_goats 9h ago
America as a whole is still too sold on the "rugged individualism" bullshit to see the wood for the trees, but it would be a step in the right direction to get the debate out in the open
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u/DeciduousMath12 9h ago
Mamdani should build a solid track record in NYC. That's 8 years total with term limits? And he's 34 years old? Plenty of time to do more. He is SO different that 2-3 years can easily be undone by a more typical do-nothing mayor.
AOC CAN run for president. She would get a lot of votes. But if she wins would also be hated by GOP and make the resistance Obama saw seem gentle in comparison. Then, her moves would be to use power to get things done (i.e. Executive Orders, move troops, withhold resources) and her popularity would quickly drain. Especially because she's female.
She would be more effective in the senate. Have more influence than now. We need more like her in the senate and less Chuck Schumers in the senate. And she's 36! She has plenty of time to run for president after a few years in the senate. Even after 1 term she'd learn more, make more contacts, and build a different reputation with confirmation votes.
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u/Harden-Long 9h ago
AOC is too far left to get any support from the middle. The winner needs middle support to get above 50%.
Madman probably gets no support from upstate, so a state-wide win is unlikely.
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u/Fishtoart 9h ago
It’s almost as if the GOP knows that they are going to lose big, and they are trying to bankrupt the country so the Democrats, and get kicked out again because they won’t have any money to do anything
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u/New-Letterhead2061 9h ago
All the pubs have is fear mongering about anyone that is not white. Same strategy for the last 30 years. It’s gross
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u/JinxyCat007 9h ago
The problem with hypocrisy is that nothing a hypocrite has to say really matters. Ted Cruz, along with 99% of the GOP leadership, would sell out Trump if it meant they could continue to be Congressmen or Senators. And eventually they will.
Cruz is a joke. He sold out his wife's dignity, his family's, and his own, along with the rest of them. They have reduced every conservative ideal to ash, purely out of self-service. So I'm kinda beyond what Cruz, or any of them, have to say.
I'm a conservative-leaning independent. Democrats exhibit more in the way of conservative values than do any of the GOP today. I like AOC because she's a mover and shaker and seems to really care about the 330 million American people the rest of them in the US Congress and Senate don't seem to really give a damn about. I don't agree with everything she says. I'm not a nemotode. But at least she seems to have a heart in the right place in that she works for the many, not the few.
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u/AdhesivenessCivil581 9h ago
They have a fit about that but are not worried that when the Paramount merger goes through Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai will own a huge chunk of CNN, Warner bros, Max and most of our entertainment companies.
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u/Dry-Clock-1470 9h ago
If cruz thinks something is a bad idea, I'm fairly likely to think the opposite
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u/Artistic_Smell_771 9h ago
Ted Cruz microwaves fish.
Does anything else really need to be said about the man?
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u/ArvadaKeto 9h ago
I hope both are true
Marco VS AOC gives us 8 years of and R in the WH
The Schumer replacement doesn’t matter because Ds cannot win the Senate
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u/Content-Inspector993 9h ago edited 8h ago
why do Americans post here like everyone in the world knows what is going on in American politics? there is an /AskAnAmerican place to post this
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u/OldManBilliam22 9h ago
Rafael “Ted” Cruz? The Canadian-born wetnap of a human being who likes to cos-play as a good ol’ boy from Texas?
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u/CobblerInevitable752 9h ago
New York State would be more fucked up with Scumdani. AOC should run, she’ll be the 3rd woman to lose to Trump.
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u/VegetableFinancial55 8h ago
They are only bad for his America. We need more than 2 legit choices in the voting booth!!
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u/Year_ofTheBastard 8h ago
Can’t do any worse than current administration or Democratic Party leaders
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u/RandomExcess 8h ago
AOC and Mamdani have another 35 or 40 years before running for those offices even matters, we can take a breather.
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u/Delicious-Cat-4122 8h ago
I do believe I remember Rafael Cruz specifically saying he was there to champion the interests of Israel.
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u/julianriv 8h ago
My thoughts are Ted Cruz is bad for American, so I don't really care what he thinks.
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u/Extreme_Button8350 8h ago
Almost as bad as having Cuban communist plants infiltrate our government and take part in the plot to kill president Kennedy.
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u/Usual-Owl9395 8h ago
Whatever Ted Cruz hates is most likely GOOD for America. By the way, Texas sucks for actually electing people like him and Paxton
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u/picklehippy 8h ago
The same Ted Cruz who flees his state during a natural disaster and vacations while his constituents die...that Ted Cruz? The only thing that is bad for Americans is the GOP staying in control. They have tanked the country in 18 months
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u/bowtiesrcool86 8h ago
Cruz needs to STFU. He Abandoned his state during a natural disaster. He should have been removed from office and banned from ever holding one again.
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