Sen Ted Cruz got into a battle of wits with AOC, which is like shooting an unarmed person. On Sunday morning , Ted Cruz reacted to Joe Biden’s refusal to denounce rioters who tear down confederate statues. Cruz said, “Dems support the riots. The vandals. The anarchists. That’s their base. And they’re terrified to offend them.”
Dems support the riots. The vandals. The anarchists.
That’s their base. And they’re terrified to offend them. https://t.co/B5nRPRGBYM
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 5, 2020
AOC then decided wrongly that she was just the person to take on Cruz, even though she did not have a ghost of a chance of winning. She said to Ted Cruz:
“Yes, that is precisely why the party nominated… Joe Biden.”
“Is it me, or is the GOP losing their touch with the conspiracy-theory-as-campaign-rhetoric technique?”
Yes, that is precisely why the party nominated… Joe Biden https://t.co/ZFx5YAnd9b
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 5, 2020
Yes, that is precisely why the party nominated… Joe Biden https://t.co/ZFx5YAnd9b
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 5, 2020
Cruz then asked AOC:
“You’re the base he’s terrified of. Do you support: 1) Tearing down statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson & Abraham Lincoln? 2) Destroying Mt. Rushmore. 3) Abolishing the police. 4) Acquiescing to ‘autonomous’ lawless zones like CHAZ/CHOP? 5) ANTIFA mob violence?”
You’re the base he’s terrified of.
Do you support:
1) Tearing down statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson & Abraham Lincoln?
2) Destroying Mt. Rushmore.
3) Abolishing the police.
4) Acquiescing to “autonomous” lawless zones like CHAZ/CHOP?
5) ANTIFA mob violence? https://t.co/qJCM6Z7yjt
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 5, 2020
Despite her implication in her Sunday tweet that she believes the Democratic base is not hard-left, she told the Times in April, “While Biden is the nominee, we also know that he didn’t win because of policy — I don’t think he won because of his agenda, he won because of different factors. In state after state after state, Democratic voters support a progressive agenda.”
She added, “I think people understand that there are limits to what Biden will do and that’s understandable — he didn’t run as a progressive candidate. But, at the bare minimum, we should aspire to be better than what we have been before. And I just don’t know if this message of ‘We’re going to go back to the way things were’ is going to work for the people for who the way things were was really bad.”