{"id":1045175,"date":"2021-11-22T17:29:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T22:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1045175"},"modified":"2021-11-22T17:29:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T22:29:42","slug":"sen-cruz-its-a-mistake-to-have-a-full-boycott-of-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-cruz-its-a-mistake-to-have-a-full-boycott-of-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Cruz: It\u2019s a mistake to have a full boycott of the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-cruz-its-a-mistake-to-have-a-full-boycott-of-the-olympics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1045175&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2575641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2575641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Ted Cruz, R-TX, questions US Attorney General Merrick Garland during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the Department of Justice on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC October 27, 2021. (Photo by TASOS KATOPODIS \/ POOL \/ AFP) (Photo by TASOS KATOPODIS\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 2:03 PM PT \u2013 Monday, November 22, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) weighed on whether he supports boycotting the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. During an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d_bUhmdOGjc\">interview<\/a> Sunday, the Republican highlighted the Olympics should have been moved out of China, but thinks a full boycott of the games would be a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know Jimmy Carter tried that in the 1970s; all it did was punish a generation of athletes,\u201d stated the senator. \u201cWe\u2019ve got young men and young woman Americans who spent their whole lives practicing for this moment. I don\u2019t want to punish those young athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, however, assessed he does support a diplomatic boycott after Joe Biden announced the U.S. was considering the measure last week. The Republican emphasized it\u2019s important the U.S. do two things in China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNumber one that we actually show the courage the Women\u2019s Tennis Association is showing to call out the murder, the genocide, the torture, the lies, the complicity in COVID-19 of the Chinese communist government to speak the truth,\u201d said Cruz. \u201cAnd then number two, I really hope our young men and woman\u2026that they go over there and kick their commie asses. We need to win in the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Republican\u2019s concern comes after Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai\u2019s sudden reappearance Sunday who disappeared from the public eye shortly after accusing the countries former vice premier of sexual assault. Several from the tennis world, government officials as well as the United Nations have since called on China for proof of Shuai\u2019s whereabouts. Cruz said he\u2019s \u201ddeeply, deeply skeptical\u201d of her reappearance.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz also said he hoped more corporations would cut off advertisements and show courage to stand up against the \u201chorrific\u201d acts taking place in China. He shined light on the Women\u2019s Tennis Association\u2019s threat to pull out of the country for answers on Shuai\u2019s safety and putting its athletes first.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/michael-cohen-free-after-serving-3-years-in-prison-house-arrest\/\">Michael Cohen Free After Serving 3 Years In Prison, House Arrest<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Ted Cruz, R-TX, questions US Attorney General Merrick Garland during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the Department of Justice on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC October 27, 2021. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}