Running scared:
Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is warning Texas Republicans that they need to work together in November.
Or they'll face the consequences.
"The hard left is angry," Cruz told thousands of Republicans gathered Saturday for their biennial state convention. "They're energized. They hate the president and they're coming for Texas."
And if Democrats are successful in claiming a new congressional seats this year, change will be swift in Washington, D.C., Cruz predicted.
"This election is a battle for the direction of this country," he said. "The day that Speaker Pelosi is sworn in is the day that impeachment proceedings begin.
"It's the day that scores of subpoenas go out, all designed to ... paralyze the administration for the next two years."
Cruz's warnings came on the last day of the convention, a time that featured speeches from other politicians and a vote on the party platform.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller echoed Cruz's concerns, saying liberal candidates in Texas and across the country are "trying to make a comeback."
"So, in November, the Democrats’ so-called blue wave needs to be, as Donald Trump likes to say, met with a big, beautiful, red, Republican wall. "
Damn straight we are! Especially since Cruz defends Trump on this:
Sen. Ted Cruz again defended the Trump administration's controversial new policy of separating children from parents at the border, blaming migrants for putting their offspring in jeopardy and insisting that such tragedies also occurred in the Obama era.
"There's no doubt that the images that we've seen of children, and children being separated from their parents, are heartbreaking. They were heartbreaking when Obama was president," Cruz told reporters Saturday after speaking at the Texas Republican convention. "I visited the Obama camps that he set up to detain little boys and little girls who crossed the border illegally. Illegal immigration produces human tragedies that are wrong."
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has described the "zero tolerance" policy for illegal border crossing, and the policy of separating children from parents when they're detained, as a deterrent against illegal immigration.
President Donald Trump and his aides have insisted that laws enacted with Democratic support require family separation. Democratic lawmakers and immigration law experts vehemently dispute that.
Cruz deflected criticism of the policy but adopted a softer tone than he offered five days earlier when he first weighed in on the controversy, defending family separation, though the message was effectively the same.
"When you see reporters, when you see Democrats saying, 'Don't separate kids from their parents,' what they're really saying is don't arrest illegal aliens," Cruz said Monday.
And Cruz’s opponent, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), is helping fight back against Trump & Cruz’s policies tearing up families:
On Friday, Congressman Beto O’Rourke announced that he will lead a Father’s Day march Sunday morning to raise awareness of a newly opened tent camp in Tornillo for kids who are taken from their parents under the Trump Administration’s new policy.
The Congressman will be joined by local leaders including former El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar, advocates, elected officials and concerned Texans as the group marches to the site where hundreds of children are already being sent without their mothers or fathers.
Via a news release, officials with O’Rourke’s office stated that Sunday’s public March to Tornillo comes less than a week after O’Rourke visited McAllen to “witness firsthand the developing humanitarian crisis along the border.”
During his visit, O’Rourke addressed the separation of children from their parents, the treatment, well-being and living conditions of unaccompanied youth, the denial of a legal asylum process for those presenting themselves at our ports of entry and recent actions taken by the Trump Administration. O’Rourke described the policy as “inhumane.”
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