{"id":1958438,"date":"2023-06-27T16:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T20:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stephen-king-takes-aim-at-ted-cruz-gets-more-than-he-bargained-for\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T16:40:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T20:40:41","slug":"stephen-king-takes-aim-at-ted-cruz-gets-more-than-he-bargained-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stephen-king-takes-aim-at-ted-cruz-gets-more-than-he-bargained-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King&#8217;s Critique of Ted Cruz Backfires"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fstephen-king-takes-aim-at-ted-cruz-gets-more-than-he-bargained-for%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=1958438&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>Stephen King and Ted Cruz Clash Over Border Crisis<\/h2>\n<p>Acclaimed horror author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-starts-and-apparently-finishes-blue-check-fee-negotiations-with-stephen-king\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen King<\/a> attempted to mock Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/if-the-media-had-investigated-cuomos-covid-response-the-way-they-did-cruzs-cancun-trip-thousands-of-new-yorkers-could-still-be-alive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 trip to Cancun<\/a>, but got an earful over the ongoing crisis at the U.S-Mexico border for his trouble.<\/p>\n<p>The brief skirmish, which played out on Twitter over several days, began with a video Cruz shared from a recent appearance on Fox News. \u201cI spend a lot of time at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/antifa-blm-vandalize-ice-building-burn-original-starbucks\/\" title=\"Antifa, BLM vandalize ICE building, burn original Starbucks\">southern border<\/a>,\u201d the Texas senator captioned the clip. \u201cI spend a lot of time with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbp-ice-release-reports-on-border-arrests-seizures\/\" title=\"CBP, ICE release reports on border arrests, seizures\">border patrol<\/a> agents<\/a>. It\u2019s never been remotely this bad. This is an invasion &#038; our families are less safe because Joe Biden is president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I spend a lot of time at the southern border. I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time with our border patrol agents. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s never been remotely this bad. <\/p>\n<p>This is an invasion &#038; our families are less safe because Joe Biden is president. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2jHC8CxMtn\">pic.twitter.com\/2jHC8CxMtn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1671941383966412801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the clip, Cruz discussed the fact that Border Patrol had already encountered 125 people who were on the Terror Watch List in fiscal year 2023 \u2014 which isn\u2019t even over yet \u2014 up from 98 such encounters in 2022, 15 in 2021, and just 3 in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that since President Biden took office, more than six million had crossed the border illegally \u2014 \u201cthe worst in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/seriously-ignorant-stephen-king-gets-buried-over-hot-take-on-putin-and-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King<\/a> weighed in then, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/1672055137437732866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeting back<\/a> a reference to Cruz\u2019s trip \u2014 a trip that coincided with a deadly freeze and power failure in his home state. \u201cYou\u2019ve also spent a lot of time in Cancun. That\u2019s pretty south, right?\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/candace-owens-battles-racial-activist-ibram-x-kendi-youre-fighting-non-racists\/\" title=\"Candace Owens Battles Racial Activist\u00a0Ibram X. Kendi: You\u2019re \u2018Fighting\u2019 \u2018Non-Racists\u2019\">author asked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Multi-millionaire Leftist <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">@StephenKing <\/span>sits in his mansion in Maine and laughs at the kids being abused &#038; the women being sexually assaulted on our Southern border,\u201d Cruz responded. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t give a damn about their suffering\u2014or about the 853 migrants who died last year or the 100k Americans who died of drug overdoses. Nope. What does he want to talk about? Cancun.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Multi-millionaire Leftist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StephenKing<\/a> sits in his mansion in Maine and laughs at the kids being abused &#038; the women being sexually assaulted on our Southern border. <\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t give a damn about their suffering\u2014or about the 853 migrants who died last year or the 100k Americans\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/olSWvcNqqr\">https:\/\/t.co\/olSWvcNqqr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1673397034110394369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>King <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/1673437197008027649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tried again<\/a>, turning the topic back to Cancun: \u201cYou\u2019re worth three mil yourself, Teddy. Guess you can go to Cancun pretty much whenever you want. How are your constituents doing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz responded once more, saying that he was actually worth more than King had claimed and asking why the author had refused to address the point he had made on the crisis at the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Am worth more than that (as the son of a penniless immigrant), but I gladly took a 90% pay cut to fight every day for 30 million Texans,\u201d Cruz tweeted. \u201cWhy does <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">@StephenKing <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">ignore EVERY WORD I said about the people hurt by the <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">#BidenBorderCrisis<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">? Because rich Hollywood liberals simply don\u2019t give a damn about the people their policies hurt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Am worth more than that (as the son of a penniless immigrant), but I gladly took a 90% pay cut to fight every day for 30 million Texans. <\/p>\n<p>Why does <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StephenKing<\/a> ignore EVERY WORD I said about the people hurt by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BidenBorderCrisis?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BidenBorderCrisis<\/a> ?<\/p>\n<p>Because rich Hollywood liberals simply\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wEGirK2mNh\">https:\/\/t.co\/wEGirK2mNh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1673469104571707400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen King, a renowned horror writer, tried to ridicule Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) for his Cancun trip in 2021. However, King faced backlash as Cruz highlighted the ongoing crisis at the U.S-Mexico border. This Twitter exchange lasted for days and started with a video shared by Cruz from a recent event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1958439,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1958438","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1958439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}