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NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/opinion/ted-cruz-texas-senate-race.html

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Some pro-Cruz women yell back, and the heckler wanders off through the parked cars. Mr. Cruz seems not to even notice, plowing ahead with his call to “Keep Texas Texas” — his campaign motto — and talking up jobs, freedom and security. The stories in the last category are mostly about crimes committed by members of the Venezuelan gang. He takes a shot at Colin Allred, who he calls a formidable candidate if he were running for City Council in San Francisco. Mr. Cruz uses this line many times. The crowd likes it, it is a real crowd pleaser. And when asked if he’s concerned about the influx of new voters to Texas in recent years and the state’s shifting demographics, he fires back with absolute confidence:

On the jumbotron at Madison Square Garden, there is a scene from the 1970 film “Patton”. George C. Scott was playing a general in World War II and he yelled at the Nazis, “We’re not just going to shoot the bastards.” We’re going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.” While it was nice, I suppose, to hear anti-Hitler rhetoric at a Trump rally, the belligerent talk of total war was unnerving in the context of a campaign focused on crushing internal enemies.

The bill stretched for over six hours and opened with a set by Tony Hinchcliffe, a Texas comedian. I was somewhat surprised by his racism, because the Trump campaign usually serves its bigotry with a nice veneer of plausible deniability. He said that these Latino people love making babies. They come inside, like they did to our country, and there is no pulling out. I don’t know if you know this. but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.” He made a joke about watermelons being carved for Halloween.

It was one of the uglier rallies I can remember. Grant Cardone, a businessman and Scientologist, said during his speech that “we need to slaughter these other people,” referring to the opponents of Trump. David Rem, a childhood friend of Trump, held up a crucifix and called Harris the Antichrist. (Then he announced he was running for mayor.) The radio personality Sid Rosenberg said Democrats were “a bunch of degenerates,” prefaced by an expletive. Trump once again described Democrats as “the enemy from within.” The stadium was covered in red lights and used heavy metal music which made it feel like watching pro wrestling in hell.

The event probably didn’t help Trump win a lot of votes. New York is not, despite the fantasies Vivek Ramaswamy spun onstage, a swing state. Hinchcliffe’s slurs against a key voting bloc proved an in-kind contribution to the Harris campaign, leading Puerto Rican artists including the megastar Bad Bunny to throw their support behind her.

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