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Ted Cruz Has A Literal Sob Story About Voters At Best Buy And People Have Thoughts
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The Texas senator told a Trump-like whopper about his shopping experience, according to critics.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) claimed Thursday that he saw shoppers at Best Buy on the verge of tears over Texas turning blue in the midterm elections.
“I’ve just encountered people who are grieving,” Cruz told Sean Hannity on Fox News. “They’re in shock. They may have been angry but they did not anticipate this tidal wave nationwide electing radicals to the Senate, giving the Democrats a stranglehold on the Senate and Texas flipping blue. I went to Best Buy this afternoon, I walked in and three people there were almost in tears expressing shock. What has happened to our state?”
What happened was: Texas turned over a U.S. Senate seat and governorship to Democrats ― James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa, respectively ― for the first time in decades. And there were significant Democratic victories further down the ballot.
Whether Cruz’s Best Buy encounter actually happened got some fierce and funny pushback on social media.
“Hey Ted, were those 3 people named ‘Me, myself, and I’?” one person asked.
“Did they say ‘Sir’, too?” another wrote, referring to President Donald Trump’s penchant for including “sir” in dubious stories.
Check out the aforementioned and other reactions right here:
of all the things that didn't happen today, this thing didn't happen today the most pic.twitter.com/tsQC7QJaBV
Please someone investigate this… please!!! I promise this never happened.. oh how I wish he were on the ballot Tuesday
Hey Ted, were those 3 people named "Me, myself, and I"?
This is equivalent to when Trump says: "a lot of people are saying"😆
I have a hard time believing any story about Ted Cruz in public that doesn't end in him being mercilessly heckled.
They just f lie lie lie like it isn’t obvious, smh. Fools.
3 people expressed shock. 300 were dancing in the aisles.
“Big strong men with tears in their eyes said ‘sir, why are you such an unlikable turd?’”