A special thanks to Hanif Abdurraqib from MTV News for sharing a video of Ted Cruz saying something so ridiculous that he appeared to lose the vote of the young woman standing directly next to him. His offense? He stood before a crowd of basketball-loving Hoosiers in the state of Indiana, pointing to the basketball hoop at the other end of the court and called it a “basketball ring.”
He thought he was going to slam dunk and ended up airballing in front of a crowd of basketball fanatics. Watch the short clip below and as Hanif Abdurraqib points out, you can actually see the young woman appearing to reconsider her support for Ted Cruz: