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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen. Ted Cruz's battle to keep Trump in power has cost him friends and sparked new questions
https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2022/03/28/sen-ted-cruzs-battle-to-keep-trump-in-power-has-cost-him-friends-sparked-new-questions/Sen. Ted Cruzs battle to keep Trump in power has cost him friends and sparked new questions
By Michael Kranish, The Washington Post
Sen. Ted Cruz was dining near the Capitol on the evening of Dec. 8, 2020, when he received an urgent call from President Donald Trump. A lawsuit had just been filed at the Supreme Court designed to overturn the election Trump had lost, and the president wanted help from the Texas Republican.
Would you be willing to argue the case? Trump asked Cruz, as the senator later recalled it.
Sure, Id be happy to if the court granted a hearing, Cruz said he responded.
An examination by The Washington Post of Cruzs actions between Election Day and Jan. 6, 2021, shows just how deeply he was involved, working directly with Trump to concoct a plan that came closer than widely realized to keeping him in power. As Cruz went to extraordinary lengths to court Trumps base and lay the groundwork for his own potential 2024 presidential bid, he also alienated close allies and longtime friends who accused him of abandoning his principals.
Now, Cruzs efforts are of interest to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, in particular whether Cruz was in contact with Trump lawyer John Eastman, a conservative attorney who has been his friend for decades and who wrote key legal memos aimed at denying Bidens victory.
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Sen. Ted Cruz's battle to keep Trump in power has cost him friends and sparked new questions (Original Post)
dalton99a
Mar 2022
OP
Yeah, do smarmy and mendacious scumbags really have friends or just people to dupe & manipulate?
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2022
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Ocelot II
(115,280 posts)1. Did he ever have any friends in the first place?
applegrove
(118,021 posts)3. You beat me to it. Ted Cruz has friends?
stopdiggin
(11,094 posts)6. My first impression also
Pretty sure virtually everybody loathes this man.
niyad
(112,435 posts)5. That was my first thought.
TheBlackAdder
(28,075 posts)12. Yeah, do smarmy and mendacious scumbags really have friends or just people to dupe & manipulate?
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)2. yeah this article lost me at...
"cost him friends."
When has he ever had friends?
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)4. Friends? More like the last tiny piece of his soul.
czarjak
(11,191 posts)7. R's R M Lock-Steppern' all 'da way.
usonian
(9,424 posts)8. Some lawyer.
Hekate
(90,192 posts)9. Friends? Senator Hagfish was once a human being?
Who knew?
Buns_of_Fire
(17,119 posts)10. 'Would you be willing to argue the case?'
'Sure, Id be happy to.'
'I'll be in touch. Regards to your ugly wife. And you put too much starch in my underwear last time. So unfair.'
Karma13612
(4,527 posts)11. Thanks for the link to the
Anchorage newspaper.
I found it to be an excellent summation including Cruzs role throughout all this.
Of course, it isnt helping me sleep better at night; quite the opposite.