{"id":87202,"date":"2021-11-10T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T14:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=87202"},"modified":"2021-11-10T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T14:19:20","slug":"ted-cruz-wants-texas-to-secede-if-things-become-hopeless-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=87202","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ted Cruz wants Texas to secede if &#8216;things become hopeless&#8217; in the US&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/580613-ted-cruz-wants-texas-to-secede-if-things-become-hopeless-in-the-us\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill:<\/a> &#8220;Sen.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/ted-cruz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ted Cruz<\/a>\u00a0(R-Texas) said that Texas should secede if Democrats &#8220;fundamentally&#8221; destroy the U.S. but added that &#8220;he is not ready to give up on America yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;If the Democrats end the filibuster, if they fundamentally destroy the country, if they pack the Supreme Court, if they make&nbsp;D.C. a state, if they federalize elections, if they massively expand voter fraud, there may come a point where it&#8217;s hopeless,&#8221;&nbsp;Cruz said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QK0ZXLwzY7g&amp;t=5005s&amp;ab_channel=YoungAmerica%27sFoundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">while speaking at an event at Texas A&amp;M last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Republican senator was responding to a question posed by a student in the crowd who asked him how he felt about the Texas secessionist movement.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: &#8220;Sen.\u00a0Ted Cruz\u00a0(R-Texas) said that Texas should secede if Democrats &#8220;fundamentally&#8221; destroy the U.S. but added that &#8220;he is not ready to give up on America yet.&#8221; &#8220;If the Democrats end the filibuster, if they fundamentally destroy the country, if they pack the Supreme Court, if they make&nbsp;D.C. a state, if they federalize elections,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87203,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87202\/revisions\/87203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}