U.S. Senator Ted Cruz is being challenged by two Democrats for his powerful Senate seat representing the Lone Star state. Democrat Colin Allred, a U.S. Congressman who has already shown he can win a red district in Texas, recently announced a formidable fundraising start ($6.2 million in two months) in his aim to prevent Cruz from winning a third term in the Senate.
Now fellow Democrat and Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez also joins the race, marking his intent to unseat Cruz with a brutally worded accusation about one of Cruz’s most infamous moments — when Cruz earned the nickname “Cancun Ted” by jetting off to that Mexico resort while Texas was under siege by an intense winter storm that resulted in the deaths of more than one hundred Texans.
I’m running for the U.S. Senate to fight back against the systems that have left so many Texans behind.
— Senator Roland Gutierrez (@RolandForTexas) July 10, 2023
Ted Cruz abandoned Texas long before he left us to die in the winter storm.
Uvalde happened because Republicans neglected the systems in this state that are supposed to keep… pic.twitter.com/kLDSLmvwCU
Gutierrez phrases his harsh criticism in a way that makes Cruz’s Cancun folly secondary to what Gutierrez characterizes as the Senator’s larger failure — abandoning Texans not just in moments of crisis but more broadly.
“Ted Cruz abandoned Texas long before he left us to die in the winter storm,” Gutierrez writes. “Left us to die” is a phrase that packs a powerful rhetorical punch.
Gutierrez then doubles down on his accusation that Cruz and his policies endanger Texans. Gutierrez — a “proud gun owner,” as he attests — believes Texas needs firmer gun laws to protect its citizens and especially its children.
Here again, Gutierriez notes Cruz’s lack of support for gun control measures that Gutierrez believes would save lives, such as the lives lost in Uvalde.
“Uvalde happened because Republicans neglected the systems in this state that are supposed to keep us safe,” Gutierrez writes, blaming Ted Cruz for Texas deaths again.
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