{"id":2009210,"date":"2023-08-23T11:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-blasts-opponents-event-turnout-six-people-showed-up\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T11:44:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:44:54","slug":"cruz-blasts-opponents-event-turnout-six-people-showed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-blasts-opponents-event-turnout-six-people-showed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz criticizes opponent&#8217;s event attendance: &#8216;Only six people came&#8217;"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fcruz-blasts-opponents-event-turnout-six-people-showed-up%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=2009210&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 Blasts Opponent&#8217;s Event Turnout<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) didn&#8217;t \u200bhold back \u2062in criticizing his opponent&#8217;s\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-gaetz-highlights-possibility-antifa-infiltrated-trump-march\/\" title=\"Rep. Gaetz highlights possibility Antifa infiltrated Trump march\">recent event<\/a> in San Antonio, Texas. According to Cruz, only six people \u2064showed \u2064up for the \u2064gathering, contradicting \u200bRep.\u200d Colin Allred&#8217;s\u200c (D-TX) claim that \u200bthe event had significant attendance.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Wow.\u200c Six people showed up in\u2062 San\u200c Antonio,&#8221; \u2063Cruz posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Allred, a three-term\u2062 congressman, is one of 11 candidates\u2062 vying for the Democratic primary to represent Texas in the Senate. His visit to San Antonio was part of his &#8220;Lone\u200d Star\u200c Listening Tour,&#8221; \u2063aimed at connecting with \u200bconstituents.<\/p>\n<p>Since announcing his bid to challenge Cruz in the 2024 election, Allred has been leveraging his popularity gained \u2064from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-blasts-opponents-event-turnout-six-people-showed-up\/\" title=\"Cruz criticizes opponent's event attendance: 'Only six people came'\">recent\u2062 election victory<\/a> to gain support \u200dfor his Senate\u200b campaign. \u200cCritics of Cruz \u2063believe his seat is vulnerable due to his\u200c association with former President Donald Trump, who is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-exploits-lobbying-loophole-to-dodge-disclosure\/\" title=\"China Exploits Lobbying Loophole to Dodge Disclosure\">facing multiple indictments<\/a> as he seeks a \u200breturn to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m running for the U.S. \u200bSenate because Texans\u200d deserve a senator whose team is Texas. Ted Cruz only cares about himself,&#8221; Allred \u2064stated when he announced his\u2064 candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, \u2064who has been \u200cserving in \u2064the Senate since 2013, defeated then-Rep.\u2062 Beto O&#8217;Rourke in the 2018 election. He also ran a competitive race for the\u200c Republican presidential nomination in 2016, ultimately losing\u200b to Trump.<\/p>\n<h3>Up for\u200b Debate: Trump, DeSantis,\u2064 and 2024 GOP Hopefuls&#8217; Stance on Elections<\/h3>\n<p>For more information on this topic,\u200b <a href=\"link\">click here to \u2064read more from The Washington Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) criticized his opponent&#8217;s event in San Antonio, Texas, stating that only six people attended. He disputed Rep. Colin Allred&#8217;s (D-TX) assertion that a major county was prepared to &#8220;fire&#8221; Cruz, countering with evidence from the congressman&#8217;s social media posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2009211,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2009210","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}