![]() “You’re going to be Ted Cruz’s trans ambassador?” “And I have all my girls on a trans issues board to advise him on making decisions when it comes to trans issues. “Wouldn’t it be great, let’s say he goes on to be president,” she tells me in relating a conversation on the tour bus. Jenner reveals she met Cruz prior to her transition, more than a year ago, “and he was very nice.” ![]() And they need to be given the opportunity to build it back up.” With $19 trillion in debt and it keeps going up, we’re spending money we don’t have. I understand that.” So why support Republicans? “Number one, if we don’t have a country, we don’t have trans issues. The Democrats are better when it comes to these types of social issues. But I also think, he’s an evangelical Christian, and probably one of the worst ones when it comes to trans issues.” I haven’t endorsed him or anything like that. “I think he’s very conservative, and a great constitutionalist, and a very articulate man. So who does she support for the nomination? I ask. “That’s just political B.S.” she says of Donald Trump’s recent inability to disavow David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. The only candidates she spoke about with The Advocate, however, were Republicans. And drama is sure to ensue when Jenner meets Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail. “It got heated! Especially with poor little me, who’s the lone Republican conservative against all the liberal Democrats.” So heated, Boylan can be seen shouting “That is a lie!” at Jenner, at one point even swatting her head with a rolled-up newspaper. It was also contentious when the conversations aboard that bus turned to politics, which Jenner says they often did. Here’s the part of the Advocate story, where Caitlyn is talking about going on bus-tours with her group of trans lady friends. But Caitlyn has a new interview with The Advocate, and she basically endorses Ted Cruz and pitches herself as his trans outreach coordinator for when he’s president. Caitlyn seemed to come close to some kind of political awareness just this week, when she acknowledged that the Democratic Party is better on trans issues. I get that Caitlyn’s politics have always been conservative, but I really hoped that post-transition, her worldview would expand to the point where she could acknowledge that her party – the GOP – is terrible for everyone other than white men (and some older white ladies, providing that they’re rich). “Ted doesn’t get anything done,” Franken said in an earlier appearance on CNN’s “ New Day.” “His big accomplishment was shutting down the government.As I’ve discussed many times, Caitlyn Jenner’s continued association with the Republican Party is both infuriating and hilarious. ![]() “He’s kind of a toxic guy in an office, the guy who microwaves fish,” he told Anderson Cooper. “I probably like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz, and I hate Ted Cruz,” Franken quipped in interviews on CNN Wednesday, using a line that appears in his book. And that's another habit of Cruz's that really ticks off senators: He's often the only person to benefit from his dramatic, time-consuming and sometimes politically costly maneuvers. One frustrating Friday night in 2014, the entire Senate had to turn around on their way home because Cruz decided to surprise them by taking one of his short-lived stands. Cruz has been known to pull a parliamentary stunt and stop up the whole Senate without any warning to his colleagues, even when explicitly offered the chance to give them a heads up. What's perhaps more damaging for Cruz's relationships is that many Senate Republicans feel as if they can't trust him. Ted Cruz caused a massive hit to the Republican Party, caused an otherwise much more liberal budget to be passed, and backstabbed his fellow Republicans in his quest to be the next Trump.Īnswer: This isn't a recent thing. The end result was the ACA stood and the Democrats got to force budget concessions (in return for votes to open the government) leading to a more liberal budget. Using a shut down to repeal was popular with the far right Republican Primary voters, but overwhelmingly unpopular with the general public (hence an unpopular vote). He was heavily engaged in this activity prior to the 2016 Presidential Primary when he was jockeying to be the most Conservative candidate (before being outflanked by Trump).įor one example, Cruz forced a Republican shut down by releasing Republican Leadership's private conversation that they were only going to pretend to go along with the plan to shut down the government to force a repeal of the ACA. Answer: The reason Mitch McConnell has so much power to block bills is because all the Senators of the same Party make an agreement to protect each other from unpopular votes.Ĭruz has a history of lying to other Senators, releasing their private conversations, and forcing them to take votes they don't want to.
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