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Ted Cruz Calls Midterm Results a Watergate-Level GOP Rebuke

  • Senator Ted Cruz called Democrats’ midterm victories a “Watergate-level repudiation” of the Republican Party in a post on X.
  • Cruz said Republicans lost every statewide election in Texas, including races involving Governor Greg Abbott and Senate candidate Ken Paxton.
  • Cruz partly blamed the losses on cost-of-living concerns, tariffs that raised prices, and the Iran war lasting too long.
  • Cruz urged Republicans to rebuild around blue-collar voters, Evangelical Christians, rural Americans, young people, and Hispanics.
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The Republican senator acknowledges the scale of the loss and warns that the party could lose up to ten seats in the Senate. High prices, tariffs and dissatisfaction with Trump's policies are weighing on the Republicans' position. Republican Senator Ted Cruz has sounded the alarm about the state of the Republican Party after deep electoral losses in Texas, describing the result as a "blue tsunami" and a political rejection of historic proportion…

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rediff.com broke the news on Wednesday, November 4, 2026.
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