President Donald Trump’s budget chief said Saturday that Republican U.S. Sen Ted Cruz could lose his seat in the November elections, suggesting that he is not likable enough, The New York Times reported.
According to the Times report, Mick Mulvaney, the leader of the Office of Management and Budget and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said at a closed-door meeting with Republican donors in New York City that he did not believe in the existence of a “blue wave” of Democrats overtaking many Republican-held seats but that Cruz may be in trouble.
“There’s a very real possibility we will win a race for Senate in Florida and lose a race in Texas for Senate, O.K.?” Mulvaney said, according to an audio recording of the meeting obtained by the Times. “I don’t think it’s likely, but it’s a possibility. How likable is a candidate? That still counts.”
Cruz, who’s held the Senate seat since 2013, is facing U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, a Democrat, in the November election. O’Rourke has outraised Cruz so far, and recent polls have put the two almost neck and neck.
To further his point on a candidate’s likability, Mulvaney mentioned last year’s special election for Senate in Alabama, when Republican Roy Moore, a former judge accused of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, lost to his Democratic opponent.
The story on Mulvaney’s comments was published while Cruz was holding a campaign event in Humble. Speaking with reporters afterward, he said he had not seen the articles yet and thus did not have an immediate comment.
Hours later, speaking with reporters after a campaign stop in Katy, Cruz provided a response.
“I’m a lot more focused on what the people of Texas think,” Cruz said. “I got a job and it’s working for 28 million Texans, and I take that job deadly seriously. I don’t worry about what some political guy in Washington says, I worry about what the people of Texas say.”
Patrick Svitek contributed to this report.
Cruz could not possibly be any farther out of touch with what it is Texans want. His self-serving and corporate-serving agenda is borne out by his record. Beto is more genuine and engaged with the communities he aspires to serve than any candidate in recent history. He truly seems to care about providing for the greater good as a public servant. The partisan hacks who can’t see through their red rage as they attempt to vilify him are simply misguided and entirely short-sighted in their words and actions. Go, Beto, go!
Just what Texas needs. A hit and run driver as senator. Then we can be like Massachusetts. .
Hammer, I could not have said it better myself! GO Beto GO! It is time for changes in politics and to use tax money to take care of our people and fix infrastructure, instead spending billions on war.
Ted’s voice is enough to turn me off but his actions at the Republican convention spoke volumes about his ego!
Ted’s legislative accomplishments are Zilch. Ted’s contributions to Texas and Texans are also Zilch. Ted is totally MIA as far as SA is concerned. The first three years of his term were spent in running for the POTUS and chest thumping about the second amendment, Obamacare repeal and unconditional support for Israel. He totally deserves to go!
And those attributes, my friend, are exactly why conservatives will vote for Ted Cruz, and don’t forget about the wall. I cant blame any conservative politician being MIA in SA!
Interesting that a non-Hispanic Democrat like Robert Francis O’Rourke can call himself “Beto” and not hear screams about his cultural appropriatio, whereas a Republican candidate doing that would be apologizing daily for himself and the relative who gave him the nickname.
Senator Cruz, as he is a US Senator, not a congressman, represents all of Texas, not San Antonio alone. Here are 750+ videos of Senator Cruz on the Senate floor, in the media, etc., see for yourself some of what he has been doing for six years. https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=videos