High Steaks: Cruz Says That A Vote For O’Rourke Is A Vote To Ban Barbecue

EMMETSBURG, IA - JANUARY 29 : Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz (second from right) laughs as he applauds a woman who sang him a song as he waits to be introduced during a campaign event at Iowa Lake Communi... EMMETSBURG, IA - JANUARY 29 : Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz (second from right) laughs as he applauds a woman who sang him a song as he waits to be introduced during a campaign event at Iowa Lake Community College January 29, 2016 in Emmetsburg, Iowa. Cruz, who is seeking the nomination for the Republican Party is on the presidential campaign trail across Iowa ahead of the Iowa Caucus taking place February 1, a week before the New Hampshire Primaries. Joshua Lott for The Washington Post via Getty Images MORE LESS
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has made meat (and its substitutes) a focal point of his recent campaign stops. He raised eyebrows when he said that his Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke would turn Texas into a California-like hellscape replete with “tofu and silicon and dyed hair.”

He brought up tofu again at a campaign stop this weekend after he spotted a few PETA members outside the building, according to a Tuesday Austin-American Statesman report.

“When I got here someone told me that even PETA was protesting and giving out barbecued tofu, so I got to say, they summed up the entire election: If Texas elects a Democrat, they’re going to ban barbecue across the state of Texas,” he said to laughter.

The PETA protestors were reportedly holding up signs that read: “Republicans eat tofu too,” a playful callback to Cruz’s second-most-recent tofu comment.

Cruz and O’Rourke are in a surprisingly tight race, with the Republican incumbent currently leading by 3.2 points according to Real Clear Politics, which classifies the race a “toss up.”

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  1. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    I hope everyone laughed at him.

    How pathetic for a Republican to have to pull out all the stops in Texas (which is Texas!), digging so far into the bag of tricks that you pull out 1994’s Greatest Hits. OH NO EVERYONE PETA IS GOING TO BAN STEAKS

    Jesus, Ted, do you have no sense of shame? I don’t mean shame out of acting unethically (I know you don’t have that), I mean shame out of acting pitiful.

  2. Pretty clear that Beto has to make an ad showing him BBQ’ing a large dead animal…

    Anyone of the Trump children would do…

  3. And football. Those nasty Dems want to take your guns, your BBQ, and your foo’ball. We’ve gotta stop 'em, folks!

  4. An absolutely idiotic talking point that Beto will nevertheless have to address. Hopefully he just says it’s stupid and moves on. Cruz is throwing out shit hoping O’Rourke gets mired in it.

  5. Pathetic indeed. Not the sign of a confident man.

    Here in IA Rod “reporter doxxer” Blum is running similarly hair-on-fire ads, saying his opponent Abby Finkenauer will end all healthcare in America.

    Noticeably absent from these ads? The word “Obamacare”. Maybe Gop’ers have been told not to bring up anything that reminds voters of their inability to repeal their biggest target even with all the reins of power at their fingertips.

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