Ted Cruz Coverage

Fact check: How slow is ballot-counting in cities compared to the rest of the nation?

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, tweeted: "Why is it only Democrat blue cities that take 'days' to count their votes? The rest of the country manages to get it done on election night." PolitiFact checks his claim.

Louis Jacobson and Amy Sherman, PolitiFact reporters

Big names visit North Carolina ahead of midterm elections

On Tuesday, Republicans held a rally at The Farm at 42 in Selma for a get-out-the-vote rally. Several prominent Republicans are attending, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Republican Senate candidate Ted Budd and 13th congressional district candidate Bo Hines. On Tuesday night in Raleigh, jam band star Dave Matthews is headlining a free get-out-the-vote concert rally with Cheri Beasley and the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Jaime Harrison.

Fact check: Cruz says high electricity costs tied to Biden, Green New Deal

In a June 4 tweet, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Texans can blame their higher electric bills on supporters of the Green New Deal, a-yet-to-be-passed congressional plan touted as a strategy for tackling climate change. PolitiFact checks his claim.

Nusaiba Mizan, PolitiFact reporter

Fact check: Cruz says armed campus police 'most effective' tool for preventing school shootings

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas responded to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas by saying "We know from past experiences that the most effective tool for keeping kids safe is armed law enforcement on the campus." PolitiFact checks his claim.

Madison Czopek, PolitiFact reporter

DRAUGHON DRAWS: The 'show' goes on

Saturday, March 26, 2022 -- Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial cartoonist.

'Saturday Night Live' mocks Ted Cruz's trip to Cancun and others who needed to apologize

"Saturday Night Live" felt like a lot of people needed to apologize this week, so on Saturday's episode that's what happened.

By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business

Fact check: Ted Cruz wrong about Philadelphia ballot 'darkness'

Sen. Ted Cruz amplified President Donald Trump's baseless and conspiratorial claims of a stolen election, falsely claiming that Philadelphia officials have been kicking out Republican election observers and counting legally cast ballots "in a shroud of darkness."

Bill McCarthy, PolitiFact reporter

Sen. Ted Cruz calls for investigation into Netflix film 'Cuties'

Cruz says Netflix or the filmmakers broke federal laws against the production and distribution of child pornography.

Fact check: Social media posts mislead about 'Antifa' website

Antifa.com redirects to Joe Biden's campaign website. But anyone can buy and redirect an Internet domain name -- and there's no clear evidence Biden's team set it up.

Samantha Putterman, PolitiFact reporter

Ted Cruz pushes for El Chapo to pay for the wall after drug lord's conviction

Sen. Ted Cruz is proposing a new source of funding for a border wall: recently convicted drug kingpin El Chapo.

By Katie Bernard, CNN

WATCH THIS VIDEO: Sen. Michael Bennet on the government shutdown

Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019 -- Colorado Sen.Michael Bennet took to the Senate floor a week ago calling on his colleagues to reopen the government immediately. "We should reopen this government today. We should open it today. And then, what I hope much more than that, is that we actually come together to figure out how we're going to govern this country again and stop playing petty partisan politics that are going to do nothing to educate the next generation of Americans."

2 Visions of Texas Vie for Its Ideological Future

LONGVIEW, Texas — Beto O’Rourke was racing left again, insisting he knew what he was doing.

Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times