{"id":1940495,"date":"2023-05-29T21:53:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T01:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-says-he-sees-an-issue-with-target-boycott\/"},"modified":"2023-05-29T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T01:57:00","slug":"ted-cruz-says-he-sees-an-issue-with-target-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-says-he-sees-an-issue-with-target-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz sees problem with Target boycott."},"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\">12<\/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%2Fted-cruz-says-he-sees-an-issue-with-target-boycott%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=1940495&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--><h2>Sen. Ted Cruz Responds to Target Boycott Over LGBT Clothes for Children<\/h2>\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0529\/0f2dc00e-8b96-4e4b-804a-1d6422a94e49\/audio.mp3?length=3937581&#038;duration=328\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat really came to bite Bud Light is that wasn\u2019t a hard boycott,\u201d Cruz said during an episode of his podcast. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult for nobody on planet Earth if you were going to order a Bud Light to say, \u2018I\u2019ll have a Coors Light.\u2019 That\u2019s a very simple substitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTarget? We\u2019ll see how prolonged and easy a substitution it is. There\u2019s Walmart. You know, there are alternatives,\u201d he also remarked. \u201cI will say Targets are located in a lot of areas and very convenient for a lot of shoppers. So we\u2019ll see if this becomes a persistent consequence or not,\u201d Cruz said, adding that in general, \u201cconservatives have typically been not very good at boycotts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) responded to the Target boycott over the company\u2019s LGBT clothes for children and said that it will be difficult to sustain, although reports have indicated that the firm has lost some $10 billion in market value so far.<\/p>\n<h3>Boycotts and Their Effectiveness<\/h3>\n<p>He pointed to the backlash and boycott of the NFL following the league\u2019s adoption of Black Lives Matter-style slogans and a number of players kneeling for the national anthem, which was popularized by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick years ago. Some also boycotted the NBA for similar reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Because people \u201creally love going to sports events and cheering on their teams,\u201d some of those boycotts didn\u2019t work in the long-term, the Texas Republican said.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a conservative-led boycott of Disney after the company criticized a bill that was backed and signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that prohibited teachers to not instruct on sexual orientation or gender identity in grades kindergarten through the third grade. And meanwhile, DeSantis has been embroiled in a battle with Disney over the governing jurisdiction and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-desantis-moves-to-end-disneys-self-governing-power\/\" title=\"Gov. DeSantis Moves to End Disney\u2019s Self-Governing Power\">special taxing district<\/a> for the land encompassing Walt Disney World Resort within Orange and Osceola counties.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5280958\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/21\/id5280958-Bud-Light-GettyImages-1247094420-1200x687.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/21\/id5280958-Bud-Light-GettyImages-1247094420-1200x687.jpg\" alt=\"Bud Light beer cans at City Tap House in Philadelphia on Feb. 12, 2023. (Mark Makela\/Getty Images)\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou can be annoyed at Disney, but if your kids really want to go to Disney World, that can be hard to say no to. There\u2019re not a lot of alternatives. There\u2019s Six Flags, but Disney World is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-says-he-sees-an-issue-with-target-boycott\/\" title=\"Cruz sees problem with Target boycott.\">pretty unique offering<\/a>,\u201d Cruz stated. \u201cAnd for that matter, Disney\u2019s movies. I mean, look, there\u2019s only one Snow White or Cinderella, or Toy Story from Pixar. That is a difficult product for many people to give up permanently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some analysts have noted that the backlash against Bud Light after the company produced a can with transgender influencer and activist Dylan Mulvaney\u2019s face appears to be working. Brayden King, a professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University\u2019s Kellogg School of Management, said that the dynamics of the Bud Light and Target boycotts appear to be different as the companies are fundamentally different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat social drinking aspect of it actually creates an accountability mechanism. You\u2019re more likely to hold the people around you accountable for drinking the right beer, so to speak,\u201d King <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/ted-cruz-sees-problem-target-boycott-1802982\">told Newsweek<\/a>. \u201cTarget, as Ted Cruz said, is not just a product that you\u2019re buying. It\u2019s a place where you\u2019re shopping and buying lots of different products. Many consumers just don\u2019t have other options.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the challenges, Cruz believes that conservatives should continue to use boycotts as a tool to express their views and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-grapples-with-ai-revolution-chatgpt\/\" title=\"Congress Grapples with AI Revolution, ChatGPT\">hold companies accountable<\/a> for their actions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Key Takeaways:<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Sen. Ted Cruz responded to the Target boycott over the company\u2019s LGBT clothes for children.<\/li>\n<li>He believes that it will be difficult to sustain, although reports have indicated that the firm has lost some $10 billion in market value so far.<\/li>\n<li>Cruz pointed to the backlash and boycott of the NFL and NBA following their adoption of Black Lives Matter-style slogans and kneeling for the national anthem.<\/li>\n<li>He also mentioned the conservative-led boycott of Disney after the company criticized a bill that was backed and signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/li>\n<li>Cruz believes that conservatives should continue to use boycotts as a tool to express their views and hold companies accountable for their actions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) downplayed the impact of the Target boycott over the company&#8217;s LGBT clothes for children, stating that it will be difficult to maintain. Despite reports of a $10 billion loss in market value, Cruz believes the boycott lacks the necessary strength to succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1940496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[6812,4105,4650],"class_list":["post-1940495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-boycott","tag-cruz","tag-target"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940495","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}