Ted Cruz Is In Trouble As Corporate Donors Abandon Him

Republican Senator Ted Cruz has spent the last month talking about how "evil" corporations are, and now he's put himself in an uncomfortable position to where they don't want to give him money anymore. He is now trying to use a Big Tech platform to cultivate small donors, but he'll have to endear himself to a lot of people who are already unsure about his motivations. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Ted. Cruz's having a bit of a problem right now, as we've reported, you know, a couple of weeks ago, a week or two ago, really a Ted Cruz wrote this. Op-ed where he goes. After these so-called woke, corporations says he's not taking any more corporate money. You're not going to be able to give him any corporate PAC money. He wants to increase your taxes, take away your special privileges corporations. Ted Cruz basically gave you a giant middle finger and said, thank you. But, um,

Don good for Ted,

Right? Uh, of course he's attacking corporations for the wrong wheat reason. He's attacking them because they're allegedly too woke instead of being absolute money, hoarding, corrupt machines that destroy American lives. Like if he had gone that route, I'd support it, but we all know why he's doing this, but corporations have decided, you know what, Ted, if you want to be that way, be that way. We don't have to give you money anymore. And so according to new reports that they're not Ted Cruz, who wants to run for president in 2024 is suddenly finding himself running out of cash. It's low, early in the game to be running out of cash hothead. So what Ted Cruz has done now is he's turned to Facebook,

But the way it isn't Facebook,

One of those woke corporations. I mean, didn't Ted Cruz grill Mark Zuckerberg at a Senate hearing like just a couple of years ago about conservative censorship. And you got Josh Hawley writing books about how bad Facebook is and Twitter and all that. So that's a little weird Ted. You know, you don't want to take their money, but you sure as hell want to use the apparatus that they've created. And what Ted's doing by the way is he's running ads on Facebook, trying to get average every day, small donor individuals to come and join his campaign, give him money because he's not taking any corporate money. There's a problem with that, Ted. You're no Ted Cruz. Uh, you're no, I'm sorry. You are Ted Cruz. You know Bernie Sanders, right? You're no AOC. Hell. You're not even an Elizabeth Warren, bud. You're not going to be able to make this no corporate pledge

And then go raise

20, $30 million from small donors. That's not who you are not to mention your relying on the kindness of these individuals who really don't like

You. Ted

Cruz does not have a good approval rating throughout the United States. And if you want to run for president, you've got to appeal to people outside the state of Texas. Hell. If you want to raise money from small donors, you've got to appeal to people outside of the state of Texas. You might get some French folks from South Carolina or Florida. Hell, you may even get some well-to-do Republicans out in, uh, California throw you some money, but it's not going to be enough, Ted. You're not an actual populist. You've just adopted this rhetoric in the last month. And it's already just not working out for you, bud.

So best of

Luck, continue to use these big tech platforms that you regularly rail against to try to raise money and hope that nobody else points out the irony and hypocrisy of that because I'm sure that's not going to bode well with you trying to attract all these little small donors, but Ted, you reap what you sow. You were such a slimy, little political chameleon, a slimy and chameleon doesn't go together. But either way, you're such a political chameleon that you took on too many different colors.