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- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
Ted Cruz warned Donald Trump, his fellow Republican, that he would face a “bloodbath” in the November midterm elections if prices continued to rise, prompting the president to respond, “fuck you, Ted,” the US senator told donors, according to a secret recording of the private conversation obtained by Axios.
Cruz reportedly delivered the reality check to the president in a phone conversation after Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs a few months after returning to the Oval Office in early 2025. The president was unhappy, Cruz said – and yelled and cursed in a conversation with Republican senators.
“Mr President, if we get to November of [2026] and people’s 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10–20% at the supermarket, we’re going to go into election day, face a bloodbath,” Cruz said he told the president, according to Axios. “You’re going to lose the House, you’re going to lose the Senate, you’re going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week.”
Only 34% approve of how Trump has handled the cost of living while 64% disapprove, according to a recent New York Times/Siena poll. There is also evidence the economy may be motivating those who voted for Trump in 2024 but now disapprove of him, according to the Times.
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Raphael Cruz is learning about leopards eating faces.
I love it when the GOP base fractures!
Fuck the WHOLE GOP
Puta merda. What a punchable face.
Don’t amplify this greasy shit-weasel’s attempt to distance himself from the fascist regime he’s been taint-suckling for years. The only next Cruz headline that is relevant will be “Cruz resigns in humiliation and disgrace…”
Nah, the next Presidential election is going to be Cruz vs Newsom
you’re going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week.
What a wonderful dream!
Mr President, if we get to November of [2026] and people’s 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10–20% at the supermarket, we’re going to go into election day, face a bloodbath
Wow, I agree with something Ted Cruz said. That doesn’t happen often.
fuck you, Ted
And I agree with something Trump said? On the same day, no less. What are the odds?
Thirty percent? Is that all it would take?
You ever talked a weed republican? Stingiest people on earth. I could see them not voting.
(They used to be called ‘libertarians’ but its clear now they don’t give a shit about rights, just weed)
"[Y]ou’re going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week.”
Ted Cruz has more faith in Democrats than I do.
They shouldn’t impeach Trump every week. Some weeks we should impeach Noem, Clarence Thomas, Besset, Hegseth, Mike Johnson, and a bunch of others.
To be fair, I don’t know if there’s a person on earth who doesnt want to say “Fuck you Ted” to Ted Cruz. Hate Trump, don’t blame him for that one though.
Even a broken clock hates Ted Cruz as they say
There’s not a single person on earth?? That’s a bit of an exaggeration. The people of Texas continue voting for “Fled Cruz”…
Flyin’ Ted
“Erm actually that silly statement you made factually incorrect, allow me to provide you with adequate data to disprove your assertion” -your ass
Chill. No one’s correcting you, I’m highlighting the absurd fact that the idiot Republicans in Texas actually approve of Cruz! We’re all being silly here…
Yee yee im just having fun
I’m sure many of us would prefer, “Fuck you, Raphael.”
This screams for Untergang Hitler video.
Is Raphael still in California, or has he returned to TX now that the storm is over?
The WH has become a sieve and I’m here for it.
I just wish the Whitehouse was boring again.
Remember the days when sex between consenting adults was a scandal?
I wish it was a crater.
Your wish is 1/3 of the way fulfilled.
Trump is losing the narrative. He spent so much time talking about Biden and Obama policies and how he was going to fix them, and then when he implemented his fixes and they didn’t work, he just doubled down that they did because back then, his sycophants just believed anything he said. Now that everyone can see him for what he is, he can’t hide behind the lies anymore. Even my parents, who were staunch supporters of his during both elections, have gone quiet. Couple that with the current state of ICE, his threats to Canada and Greenland (and Iceland by idiot-proxy), and the glossing of the Epstein files, there is a lot of ammo against the Republicans going into Midterms. Its no wonder he keeps pawing around the idea of skipping them entirely. He’s running out of time before falling over the cliff. Trump got away with what he did because he was a useful idiot. However, they overfed the beast and he got fat. Now he’s gotten too large and is blocking the progress that the GOP thought it was going to make. How long before they stuff his bloated political corpse full of dynamite and blow him off the beach?
There is also evidence the economy may be motivating those who voted for Trump in 2024 but now disapprove of him
“Single issue voters have been stung by the other thing he said he would do, but they didn’t listen to, because wasn’t that one thing they were bothered about.”
We all know Raphael doesn’t have a spine, if he’s willing to say this, it means trump has already lost massive support not only from Republicans but the donors who back them.
