Texas Republican officials at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday prodded attendees to suit up for a “red wave” in the upcoming November midterm elections, criticizing federal immigration policy and inflation while boasting about Texas’ economic successes.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz stood in a tan blazer and blue button-up shirt in front of the crowd in Dallas’ convention center on Friday, and directed his ire at President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, LGBTQ communities and “communist woke professors.”
“My name is Ted Cruz, and my pronouns are kiss my ass,” Cruz shouted to the crowd of conservatives. “Every day I represent 30 million Texans, and my job, it’s like the old Roman Colosseum where you slam on a breastplate, and you grab a battle ax, and you go fight the barbarians.”
But as Republicans used the conference to rally their base, they faced fierce criticism from Democrats for sharing the stage with Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister facing backlash for racist comments.
Orbán, who spoke at the convention on Thursday, said in an address last week that Europeans “do not want to become peoples of mixed race.” The prime minister’s remarks immediately sparked outrage and uneasiness from his critics and confidants, according to The Washington Post, and led to the resignation of one of Orbán’s longtime advisers.
Texas Democrats condemned the GOP for openly welcoming a world leader with a polarizing international reputation. Orbán has previously said Muslims threaten Europe’s Christian identity, advocated for a high-tech border fence for curtailing immigration from the Middle East and Africa, supported bans on LGBTQ-themed content in schools and opposed same sex couples’ ability to adopt children.
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Texas Republican officials at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday prodded attendees to suit up for a “red wave” in the upcoming November midterm elections, criticizing federal immigration policy and inflation while boasting about Texas’ economic successes.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz stood in a tan blazer and blue button-up shirt in front of the crowd in Dallas’ convention center on Friday, and directed his ire at President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, LGBTQ communities and “communist woke professors.”
“My name is Ted Cruz, and my pronouns are kiss my ass,” Cruz shouted to the crowd of conservatives. “Every day I represent 30 million Texans, and my job, it’s like the old Roman Colosseum where you slam on a breastplate, and you grab a battle ax, and you go fight the barbarians.”
But as Republicans used the conference to rally their base, they faced fierce criticism from Democrats for sharing the stage with Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister facing backlash for racist comments.
Orbán, who spoke at the convention on Thursday, said in an address last week that Europeans “do not want to become peoples of mixed race.” The prime minister’s remarks immediately sparked outrage and uneasiness from his critics and confidants, according to The Washington Post, and led to the resignation of one of Orbán’s longtime advisers.
Texas Democrats condemned the GOP for openly welcoming a world leader with a polarizing international reputation. Orbán has previously said Muslims threaten Europe’s Christian identity, advocated for a high-tech border fence for curtailing immigration from the Middle East and Africa, supported bans on LGBTQ-themed content in schools and opposed same sex couples’ ability to adopt children.
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