Ted Cruz warns the election 'could be a bloodbath of Watergate proportions' for GOP

[brooklynite]

Source: CNBC

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned on Friday that Republicans could see “a bloodbath of Watergate proportions” if voters are angry and broke when casting their ballots next month.

Cruz blamed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for holding up a deal to provide a new round stimulus and direct payment checks to Americans during the coronavirus pandemic, although it was President Donald Trump who abruptly called off talks earlier this week.

“If people are going back to work, if they’re optimistic, if they’re positive about the future, we could see a fantastic election: the president getting reelected with a big margin, Republicans winning both Houses of Congress,” Cruz said in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

“But I also think if on Election Day, people are angry and they’ve given up hope and they’re depressed, which is what Pelosi and Schumer want them to be, I think it could be a terrible election. I think we could lose the White House and both houses of Congress, that it could be a bloodbath of Watergate proportions.”



Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/09/election-2020-ted-cruz-warns-of-bloodbath-for-gop.html

[RainCaster]

1. May he reap the benefits of that

Ted looks tired, he needs to retire.

[moose65]

2. May it be so!

In an absolutely not-surprising way, the Party of Personal Responsibility once again takes no responsibility for the fact that people hate them and can't wait to beat the shit out of them at the ballot box.

[Harker]

3. Sounds great, Ted!

Thanks for doing your part.

[Botany]

4. Get ready for the surge Ted

[cstanleytech]

23. Nice 2018 pic. The 2020 one will probable be something like this

[iluvtennis]

38. Love this picture. nt

[aquamarina]

5. And that's bad, why?

[Bayard]

6. Oh sure

Blame it on Dems because your party is in shambles. Reap what you sow, good buddy.

[we can do it]

7. Could be, Ted?

[underpants]

8. Nice try dickface. Mitch won't bring it up because of dfaces like you and Rand

Cruz or Paul would stop unanimous consent and never end up voting for it anyway.

[lastlib]

9. Nah, Raffy, it won't be "Watergate proportions"......

It'll be MUCH bloodier than that!

Go back ten years--think "LBJ/Goldwater".........

"In your guts, you KNOW he's nuts!"

[keithbvadu2]

10. How can voters be broke? Repubs are bragging how well the economy is doing under Trump's leadership.

How can voters be broke? Repubs are bragging how well the economy is doing under Trump's leadership.

(Sarcasm thingie goes here.)

[Dopers_Greed]

11. He's saying that like it's a bad thing

[kimbutgar]

12. Meaning, "don't believe what you see with your lying eyes or hear with you lying ears "

Everything is honky dory for me but if you’re out of work, broke, can’t afford to pay rent or put food on your table it’s Pelosi and Shumer making up your misery.

[MurrayDelph]

13. On the Al Franken podcast store website

https://store.alfranken.com/collections/frontpage/products/and-i-hate-ted-cruz-etched-pint-glass






Portion of proceeds goes to Voto Latino

[IrishEyes]

14. Almost 8 million people have already voted.

Many of them angry and broke. I'm really looking forward to a bloodbath.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. Ted, you guys haven't developed herd immunity?

You know, with enough pollution voters are numb and stupid. What happened, Slimeskull?

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

16. um. ted? the election is now.

what are we up to? 8m early votes? think that was the a.m. number.

[ProfessorGAC]

40. At Least He Knows It's In November

Which November, he's not so clear on.

[colorado_ufo]

17. Did anyone do a temperature check on Cruz?

Because I think he is delusional. BTW, the last video I saw of McConnell makes me think he has Covid-19. Mr. White-Dry-and-Pasty was red-faced and sweating. Never saw him like that before - he looked almost life-like.

[SWBTATTReg]

18. With morons like Cruz in Congress, this Country will never get better (and the fact that Squawk Box

actually listens or had idiots like Cruz on their show), is pathetic, makes me never want to watch CNBC.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

19. I hope this is the last time republicans

Control anything in government. I hope they are all swept out and they are never trusted again.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. Deservedly so.

[maxsolomon]

21. Jesus Christ could return on Sunday

and Nov 3rd will still be a richly-deserved bloodbath for the GOP.

[cstanleytech]

22. Reason its going to be a bloodbath is because you and your parties leadership are assholes Ted.

[Paladin]

24. Ted Cruz, Mr. Hope & Optimism.

Hell of a job you're doing there, Ted. Keep up the good work through election day.


Love and kisses,

Every Democrat in the country

[IronLionZion]

25. That's the plan. Let's make it so!

[jmowreader]

26. For the sake of our country, that's exactly what must happen

I predict that, thanks to Trump's trade wars and the pandemic-induced curtailment of the economy, we are looking at a massive economic downturn early next year. As in, before May. This time it will be different: We won't be able to manipulate our way out of it by adjusting the prime rate, increasing the money supply etc. because Trump already used those measures as much as you possibly can to try to overstimulate the economy to make himself look better...and we won't be able to trade our way out of it because Trump has pissed off the rest of the world.

Biden needs to be ready to repeal every tariff Trump instituted on the first day of his presidency, and the new Democratic Congress needs to have a bill ready for him by inauguration day.

[Marthe48]

27. offer your neck to the wolf, cruz

n/t

[Cryptoad]

28. "Could be"....? LMAO

[marble falls]

29. Cruz is thinking how lucky he was Beto didn't kick his ass two years ago ...

Cornyn might well get dumped if we get a big enough turnout.

[calimary]

30. SHEESH! For the first time in my life, I'm saying something I never would have said before:

I hope Ted Cruz is right.

[melm00se]

31. The worst congressional seat loss

was in 1938. The Democratic party lost 81 House and 7 Senate seats

The 2020 election is going to hit the Republicans even harder (and they won't have the cushion FDR had because even with those losses the Democratic Party maintained majorities in both Houses).

[aggiesal]

32. Ted this isn't a "Warning", this is a "Promise". Get used to it. n/t

[Grokenstein]

33. Watergate?? You WISH.

Try "Biblical" proportions. The Red Sea scene in The Ten Commandments, to be specific.

[Brainfodder]

34. OK boys & girls, Republicans lie and lie and lie and lie and lie, there are consequences!

Grown ups who haven't been brainwashed, all know this already, I am frankly bored on the topic at this point.

Good luck!

How millions haven't stormed D.C. to remove and whatever all these treasonous assholes, still amazes me daily.

[Yavin4]

35. covid-19 does not care about your optimism or positivity.

It's a virus that's trying to live by infecting humans, and so far, this country has given it plenty of life.

[zed nada]

36. Yeahhh? Well the weather outside is frightful...

Let It Bleed, Let It Bleed, and you know the rest.......

[George II]

37. Raphael is proving just how much of an idiot he is if he's talking about the post-Watergate....

...presidential/congressional elections of 1976.

Carter won by only about 50 electoral votes and one large state would have given Ford the presidency.

In the House the Democrats gained only one seat and in the Senate the republicans actually gained one seat.

Now, if he's talking about the 1974 midterm election, that's a different story. Democrats gained 49 seats in the House and 4 seats in the Senate. But that was a different dynamic, midterm election yearss are nothing like presidential election years.

[iluvtennis]

39. Yet Cruz puts the dismay of the American ppl at the feet of Pelosi and Schumer - Don the Con OWNS

this from his incompetence in not having a national mitigation plan for CV-19.

[Initech]

41. May the MAGA movement be regulated to the dust bin of history!

[elleng]

42. SURE could!

[BigDemVoter]

43. I had to read your heading a couple of times before it hit me. . .

My brain was trying to tell me there was going to be another Watergate coming, and then I smacked my forehead.

I agree. I think all of the corruption, open lies and "alternative facts" will damage the GOP up and down the ticket, and I, quite frankly, don't think the GOP will recover for a good while. That gives me a much needed smile just thinking about it.

HOWEVER. . . I am so afraid of political violence, and I've said to my partner numerous times that I don't see any way it can be avoided. We live in a gun-crazy country, and when people are allowed to "open carry" in so many states and the fact that they do so just to intimidate others gives me the shudders.

[Progressive Jones]

44. Typical right wing whining. All "those people" do is whine. nt

[Baclava]

45. The last time voters were this angry with a criminal leader, Mussolini ended up hanging by his heels

Is that what Cruz is saying?

[pfitz59]

46. Dems first order of business will ne to pass the 600 bills McTurdle has been sitting on

Then go after Trumpies and the GOP for four years of graft and corruption THEN find ways to unseat the hundreds of extremist judges McTurdle rammed through (many committed perjury by either outright lies, or omission of pertinent facts).