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Ted Cruz goes full Trump, calls for Beto O’Rourke to be jailed

Cruz’s ‘double-occupancy cell’ joke is the new ‘triple meat Whataburger’ attack.

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At a rally last night in Georgetown, Texas, Sen. Ted Cruz embraced the fully Trumpian campaign tactic of calling for the jailing of his political opponent, challenger Beto O’Rourke.

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While attacking O’Rourke over a lack of support for Israel, a woman shouted at Cruz to “lock him up.”

Cruz—who once was the staunchest Never Trumpers in the Republican Party—instead of dismissing the cry, leaned into it, looping O’Rourke in with former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who Trump frequently demands to be jailed.

“Well, you know, there’s a double-occupancy cell with Hillary Clinton,” Cruz said.

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It should be noted that voting “no” on funding a missile defense system for Israel is not an arrestable offense.

Cruz at least seemed aware that his response was maybe a mistake.

“Y’all are gonna get me in trouble with that,” he said, according to Mother Jones. “They’re not gonna cover anything about taxes or anything else, that’s gonna be the entire news broadcast.”

https://www.facebook.com/motherjonesvideo/videos/1167608530087159/

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Cruz’s remarks were decried online.

https://twitter.com/KenLayne/status/1054945571117588480

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https://twitter.com/JamesKosur/status/1055066761605890048

Cruz’s “double occupancy” joke harkens back to another of his multiplier-themed insults of O’Rourke: that he was a “triple-meat Whataburger liberal.”

H/T Mother Jones

 
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