The recordings - nearly 10 minutes in total - provide an unvarnished look at how Cruz is positioning himself as a traditional free trade, pro-interventionist Republican ahead of a possible 2028 primary campaign against the less hawkish Vance. Zoom in: During his talks, Cruz cast Vance as a pawn of conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson. Cruz has accused Carlson of promoting antisemitism and an anti-Israel foreign policy in their well-publicized spats.
At that moment, YES Network announcer Tim Capstraw had to let the TV audience know what he was seeing. Grayson Allen, Capstraw told his broadcast part Ryan Ruocco, I can't look at him and not think of Ted Cruz. Ruocco was taken aback by the accuracy of Capstraw's comparison. Man, that is an incredible you are spot-on, man, Ruocco said, You know, I'm not Mr. Politics or anything, Capstraw continued.
Number one, our savior Jesus was Jewish in the line of David, and number two, Jews didn't kill Jesus I did. You did. He died for our sins. That's what the New Testament says, is that he willingly took the cross to die for our sins, and so the sort of anti-Semites who says Jews killed Jesus, well actually, it was Romans who drove the nails in. Is anyone mad at the Italians? Like that's just stupid.
Ted Cruz (R-TX) attacked former Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Thursday for speaking at a conference in Qatar, which is also set to include Cruz's own former national security advisers. Reacting to the news that Carlson would be one of the speakers at the Doha Forum in Qatar's capital this weekend, Cruz accused Carlson of being #QatarFirst. #QatarFirst https://t.co/O88JPSaxcc Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 5, 2025
Cruz's phone records were ultimately not analyzed as part of Smith's Jan. 6 Capitol attack investigation because AT&T did not comply with the subpoena, according to a source directly familiar with the situation. Between the lines: The disclosure makes Cruz the ninth Republican senator for whom the Justice Department sought phone records, according to a copy of a subpoena obtained by Axios.
Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz (R-TX) was one of a handful of Republicans to speak out against the "mafioso"-like comments Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr issued ahead of Jimmy Kimmel's suspension last month. Now, he's hoping the liberal outrage over government censorship will fuel bipartisan support for a new bill letting Americans sue over speech violations. Cruz plans to introduce the bill in the coming weeks, he told The Wall Street Journal in an interview.
during a Senate hearing on Tuesday morning. Sen. Booker also said we should have bipartisan agreement. I think that's a great idea we should have bipartisan agreement, Cruz said. How about we all come together and say Let's stop murders.' How about we all come together and say Let's stop rape.' How about we all come together and say Let's stop attacking pedophiles.
There have been other acts of political violence as well when it comes to targeting Democrats. I mean, we've seen that with a lawmaker who was killed in Minnesota this summer alongside her husband. In June, Minnesota Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman (D), her husband, and her dog were shot and killed. Another lawmaker, state Sen. John Hoffman, and his wife were also shot, but survived. Prosecutors say the shooter was 57-year-old Vance Boelter and stated that he had a hit list containing the names of Democratic officials in multiple states, as well as some abortion providers.
Ted Cruz ensured the Republican spending bill slashed funding for weather forecasting, then went on vacation to Greece while Texas faced deadly flooding. Cruz visited Greece on Saturday after a flash flood killed over 100 people in Texas, including children at a camp, during which he promised lawmakers' response upon his return. Cruz acknowledged that something went wrong with the warning system for the flood, emphasizing the need for a better system of alerts to get children to safety.
