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Struggling Hardliner Ted Cruz Suddenly Insists He’s Bipartisan
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“I have never worked with a more miserable son of a b----h in my life,” former House Speaker John Boehner said of the hyper-partisan Texas senator in 2016.
Sean Craig
Updated Sep. 30, 2024 1:27PM EDT / Published Sep. 30, 2024 11:48AM EDT


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—Cruz said in an interview with Politico. “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.”

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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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