Ted Cruz
Senator Ted Cruz tells John Catsimatidis that Democrats in Congress are terrified of Marxists and Islamists he says are taking over their party. He says his 2024 Texas race, a $250 million contest, ended in a nine-point win and a million votes, and that he carried the Hispanic vote statewide by six points. He argues the party returns to sanity only after resounding losses at the polls.
Key takeaways
- Cruz said Democrats in Congress fear the Marxists and Islamists gaining energy and money.
- He said his 2024 Texas race drew $250 million and he won by nine points.
- Cruz said carrying Texas’s Hispanic vote by six points was a first for a Republican Senate candidate.
- He said only repeated losses will push the party back toward candidates who love America.
In their words
“Every Democrat in the Senate and the House are terrified of the Marxists and Islamists who are taking over their party”
“Texas falls, the whole country falls.”
“we ought to start with a shared value of we love America and we love Americans”
Quotes are word for word from the automated transcript, uncorrected; the summary and takeaways are editorial.
Transcript
Automated transcript · uncorrectedWell, deep in the heart of Texas, the most important election of the century. And so many people are saying that. Today we have Senator Ted Cruz, and you never know what he wants to run for someday. And Senator Cruz, the most important election of the century. I can’t believe that even people are suggesting that this guy, Tallarico, could win.
You tell us. It’s your Texas.
John, you’re exactly right. It’s great to be back with you. Thank you for the great job you do each and every day. This election, I’ve never seen an election remotely like this. Look, every two years, politicians come in front of us and they say, this is the most important election ever. But holy cow, the candidates we are seeing
running on the Democrat side are more radical, they are more extreme than we’ve ever seen in our nation’s history. We’re witnessing, and this is not hyperbole, a communist and an Islamist takeover of the Democrat Party. And it is profoundly dangerous. These candidates are radical. You asked about Texas.
I think the two most radical candidates in the entire country are James Tallarico in Texas and Abdul Al-Sayed in Michigan. Both of them are extraordinarily dangerous. Here in Texas, the Senate race is tied.
It is a dead heat.
James Tallarico and Ken Paxton are neck and neck, and it is incredibly dangerous. Let me tell you a little bit about Tallarico’s record. James Tallarico says, quote, God is non-binary. I don’t know what the hell that means, but that’s what he says. James Tallarico says there are six different genders. Now, I can count to two, damned if I know.
What the other four are.
James Tallarico on immigration says that our southern border, we should place a welcome mat at our southern border to welcome illegal immigrants into America. That is radical and dangerous, but that’s not what the people of Texas want. James Tallarico says that He has gone before churches and stood up and says he weeps for his whiteness and he
weeps for his masculinity. Now, John, I got to tell you, if you were to list a thousand adjectives to describe James Tallarica, masculine would not be one of them.
I just can’t believe it. Senator, I just can’t believe that this guy is even a competitor.
It is frightening. It is dangerous.
He is the number one fundraiser in the country. He has spent over $ 100 million trying to con the people of Texas, trying to hide from them. James Tallarico is caught on film saying that his objective is to, quote, dismantle capitalism that’s what he wants to do and and and look john if there’s one principle that history teaches
us it is that when somebody tells you who they are believe them when james talarico says he wants to dismantle capitalism he means it when comrade mondami and i’m sorry that that that mondami is your mayor when he says quote that he wants to seize the means of production That is a word-for-word verbatim quote from the Communist
Manifesto from Karl Marx. That is communism, and Mondami means it.
He believes it.
When Abdul Al-Sayed in Michigan says he has a, quote, obligation.
To follow Sharia law, he means it.
And when Hassan Piker, this radical America-hating leftist, who campaigns alongside Abdul Al-Sayed and campaigns alongside James Tallarico, when Hassan Piker says, America deserved 9-11, what a hateful, noxious statement. Hassan Piker means it, and these are the radicals that have taken over the Democrat Party.
Senator, where do these people have come from that are voting for these people? I mean, they can’t be all American citizens.
You know, it is a lot of people who have been sadly duped, that they have been misled. So right now, Tallarico is trying to run away from every one of his positions. He’s trying to claim now, he says he no longer supports boys and girls sports. He no longer supports men and women’s sports. He no longer supports, he says,
mutilating and sterilizing children in support of a radical transgender ideology. Speaker 2> Speaker 2>
he said just this week, he said, well... whether to mutilate kids is a complicated question.
It’s a hard question. There’s nuance there. No, no, there’s not.
If the question is with an eight-year-old boy, should you surgically remove his testicles?
John, that is not a close question. That is not a hard question.
No eight-year-old has the maturity to make the decision to sterilize himself for the rest of his life. And any adult who does that is committing child abuse. And you know what Tallarico’s position is? if you’re a mom or dad and you refuse to sterilize and mutilate your kid, you’re the one who’s unfit to be a parent and
the state should take your child away from you. And so everything he’s trying to do to run away from his record, his record has been there a long, long time.
And this guy is a true believer.
Senator, Vice President Pence was here a couple of weeks ago and And he said it right. He says, maybe the Republicans are not 100% right, but the Democrats have completely lost their minds.
Yes, I think that is exactly right. These Democrats, they’re not even Democrats. And look, it’s not the case that every Democrat in the Senate, every Democrat in the House is a Marxist.
Or an Islamist. But here’s what is the case.
Every Democrat in the Senate and the House are terrified of the Marxists and Islamists who are taking over their party because that’s where all the energy is in the party. That’s where the money is in the party. That’s where the young people are in the party. I think Comrade Mondami is the single most powerful Democrat in the country.
And you are seeing communists and Islamists winning primaries in Manhattan. Winning primaries in Michigan, winning primaries in Colorado, winning primaries in Florida, winning primaries in Oklahoma. And every one of the Democrats in the House and Senate, they are utterly terrified of these radicals. I’ll tell you, in Texas, as I said, it is neck and neck. And so I
want to encourage folks to go to Wintexas.com, Wintexas.com, Wintexas.com.
Go and contribute.
My campaign has raised and spent millions of dollars. to win Texas, to hold on to Texas, to defeat James Tallarico, to stop the lunacy from taking over Texas. And if Texas falls, the whole country falls. So please, go to Wintexas.com right now, contribute, stand up and help us fight, not only to save Texas, but to save the country from
this lunacy, from the communists and Islamists that want to destroy our nation.
Understood. I mean, it’s just... Look, you know, the one thing... In 1984, the Democrats lost 49 states and they lost the 50th state by 11,000 votes. You know, the American people have to realize the only way the Democratic Party, the common sense Democrats at least, can get rid of those socialists is by doing that again.
John, you’re exactly right.
And step back a little bit because, look, students of history, you’re a student of history. Let’s say someone listening to this show is.
A Democrat, but is a Democrat.
Who’s worried about how radical your party is getting. Maybe you’re not recognizing the Democrat Party today. We’re seeing a lot of Democrats who are voting for Republicans for the first time ever because the Democrat Party has gotten so insane that We saw this in my last election in Texas in 2024, where it was a $ 250 million race.
I was Chuck Schumer’s number one target. And I ended up winning by nine points and a million votes statewide. And most importantly, I carried the Hispanic vote statewide in Texas by six points. First time in history that’s ever happened in Texas for a Republican Senate candidate. And the Rio Grande Valley, South Texas, which has been bright blue
for 100 years, It flipped red. And Donald Trump carried the valley.
I carried the valley. That is important.
We’re seeing this all over the country that Democrats are saying, I don’t recognize these lunatics that are taking over my party. I will say, how do you stop it? How do you defeat it? Well, if you look back to history, you go back to 1980. 1980, Ronald Reagan wins. 1984, Ronald Reagan wins. 1988, George Herbert Walker Bush wins. And
Democrats say, after three just thumpings, three just getting their tail whipped, Democrats say, gosh, this isn’t working. Maybe we should stop nominating left-wing zealots like Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. This isn’t working. We keep getting crushed.
Reagan beat Walter Mondale, as you noted, in 1984. He won 49 states.
He won New York. He won California. He won Illinois.
He won every state in the country except for Minnesota, and he barely lost Minnesota. And after three consecutive thumpings, what happened? Well, in 1992, the Democrats said, let’s recalibrate. And they found a moderate Democrat governor in Arkansas, a guy named Bill Clinton, He.
Became their nominee. And what happened? Clinton got elected and served eight years. That’s what’s got to happen. If you want to see.
The Democrat Party come back from crazy town. And by the way, I’d like to live in a country where we have two parties. that are relatively reasonable and sane and that love America. We can disagree on tax rates.
We can disagree on all sorts of policies. But we ought to start with a shared value of we love America and we love Americans. And right now, the radicals have taken over the Democrat Party. They don’t love America.
They hate America and are trying to destroy it. If you want to bring the Democrat Party back to sanity... The only way to do it is for them to get resoundingly rejected at the polls probably a couple of times.
And that will result just as it did in 1992. And they’re saying, OK, this isn’t working. Let’s find people who aren’t crazy zealots. Let’s find people who love America instead.
Senator Ted Cruz, anything else you want to tell the American people?
This election, 19 days, come out and vote, get your friends to vote, stand up. By the way, New York, you got a big gubernatorial race. It would shock the country. to see Kathy Hochul defeated. It would be a powerful statement.
New York, you can make a statement to the whole country. So come out and vote Republican. And I just want to encourage folks also, again, come to Wintexas.com, Wintexas.com, Wintexas.com.
We need support.
We need financial resources to pull this country back from the brink of insanity.
Senator Ted Cruz, thank you for your common sense. And let’s catch up again real soon. God bless.
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