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In Texas, Biden targets Senator Ted Cruz, raises millions

Published 03/20/2024, 10:01 PM
Updated 03/20/2024, 10:06 PM
© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden speaks, as he announces a preliminary agreement with Intel for a major CHIPS and Science Act award, during a visit to the Intel Ocotillo Campus, in Chandler, Arizona, U.S., March 20, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

By Jeff Mason

DALLAS (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden assailed Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz in his home state on Thursday as part of a fundraising tour that has raised millions for Biden's re-election campaign.

Biden, at a fundraiser at the Dallas home of lawyer Russell Budd, urged donors to support U.S. Representative Colin Allred, the Democratic nominee for the Senate seat held by Cruz.

“The stakes couldn’t be higher across the board. And with your help, we’re going to win up and down the ticket, and that includes here in Texas,” Biden said.

“You've got to elect Colin as your next senator... so Ted Cruz joins another loser, Donald Trump," Biden said, referring to his likely Republican opponent in the November presidential election.

Budd announced that the event, the first of two fundraisers for Biden in Texas Thursday evening, raised $2.5 million, adding to the tally collected by Biden this week on a Western swing. Biden's campaign raised more than $53 million in February and reported it has $155 million cash on hand.

Trump's campaign reported Wednesday it had raised $10.9 million in February.

Cruz, who lost the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, has been a frequent Biden critic, particularly on Biden's handling of migration along the Texas border with Mexico.

Polls show a tight race between Cruz and Allred, a former professional football player and House Representative.

Latest comments

Cruz is the swamp. He fled the state in the middle of it’s biggest crisis.
I have to agree with Biden that Cruz is a very unstable person, a total fraus and the biggest liar we have ever seen.
Correction. Sorry, mistake. It was Trump who said those things about Cruz. (* fraud).
 you know it's bad when he ran for president in 2016 and can't get a single Senator to endorse him.....
When the winds start blowing and the forrest fires start you can always be sure to see Cruz in Cancun ordering drinks on campaign donations.
Ted Cruz what loser as Trump has said many times.
Biden works for America. traitor-trump and the maga-republicans work for putin..
you are being too harsh on Ted Cruz, he and his ugly wife (according to Trump) work for their Cancun vacations
Facts has shown that Biden is a liar and a deceiver.
put up or shut up
you don't have any facts, do you..?
From a Trump tweet in December, 2020, here are what pass for facts to the magaloons: "Swing States that have found massive VOTER FRAUD, which is all of them, CANNOT LEGALLY CERTIFY these votes as complete & correct without committing a severely punishable crime. Everybody knows that dead people, below age people, illegal immigrants, fake signatures, prisoners, and many others voted illegally. Also, machine “glitches” (another word for FRAUD), ballot harvesting, non-resident voters, fake ballots, “stuffing the ballot box”, votes for pay, roughed up Republican Poll Watchers, and sometimes even more votes than people voting, took place in Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and elsewhere. In all Swing State cases, there are far more votes than are necessary to win the State, and the Election itself. Therefore, VOTES CANNOT BE CERTIFIED. THIS ELECTION IS UNDER PROTEST!"
Inflation is out of control housing is our control. We need new leadership like before.
If something is new, it's not like before. That would be old. This is the lack of precision with which the magabilly brain operates.
Ok Ivan 😂🤡
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