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Forget about Mike Tyson versus Roy Jones Jr. The biggest fight of 2020 is taking place in the virtual arena: Ted Cruz against Alyssa Milana on Twitter. The political combatants are warring over the debate to raise the federal minimum wage to 15 dollars.
Today’s Dems are the party of the rich.
GOP is and should be the party of the working class. https://t.co/WMTDtKTzwU
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 29, 2020
This is hilarious. Why is the GOP blocking covid relief from working class families if it’s the party of working class? Or blocking the bill to raise minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour. Sit down.
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) November 29, 2020
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Ted Cruz is a US Senator from Texas and Alyssa Milano is an actress and political activist. He is Republican and she is a Democrat, and the political divide became quickly apparent on Twitter. Cruz’s claim that the Democrats are the “party of the rich” and the GOP represents the “working class” was put through the shredder.
The GOP was never about the working class. It has been and will always be a party for the rich. The motto “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” only applies to those that can afford boots…and is clearly a polite way of saying “if you can’t make it, too bad.”
— Dogman (@SevendogsB) November 30, 2020
INTERESTING FACT: @tedcruz's wife is a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs. https://t.co/hrhKlqmUs3
— Zack Calhoon (@VisibleSoul) November 29, 2020
DeMS aRe ThE PaRTy oF tHe riCh pic.twitter.com/Ie5cTMWSSx
— ATOMIC RAT (@atomic_rat) November 29, 2020
@tedcruz Why are all your tweets bad? pic.twitter.com/hJJJ6PMLIW
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) November 29, 2020
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Users wasted no time mocking Cruz and his statements.
Ted Cruz had the audacity to say that the Democrats were the party of the rich and the Republicans were the party of the working class. Yet this is their pattern, huge tax breaks for the rich, which they pay for by picking the pockets of the poor and middle class.
— Eowyn Dernhelm (@dernhelm_eowyn) November 29, 2020
Did Ted Cruz really just say today's Dems are the party of the rich? Talk about something that's rich…
— Resister Nurse Says Wear a Mask 😷🌊 (@karebear0517) November 29, 2020
Ted Cruz called the GOP “the working class party.”
Which is odd, because none of their elected officials work or have class.
— Steve Hofstetter (@SteveHofstetter) November 29, 2020
Ted’s superpower is being disingenuous permanently.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 29, 2020
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Ted Cruz can’t be bothered with pesky things like truth or facts.
Don’t disturb Rafael Edward with facts.
— Julian Rüther 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 (@Julian81295) November 29, 2020
Working classhttps://t.co/HNiR3IpJHV
— Jeff Joseph 🦅🐝 (@Jeffdc5) November 29, 2020
Look at me, just a regular blue collar working class joe @OpenSecretsDC pic.twitter.com/q4pNUC0Nwa
— wendy h (@aglio_o_morte) November 29, 2020
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According to Ted Cruz, the GOP “is and always will be the party of the working class.” Yet, as one user pointed out, Mitch McConnell voted against raising the minimum wage at least 16 times, while he voted to increase his own pay and uphold an automatic pay increase of $4,900 for Congress members.
While working-class Texans are lining up at food banks, Ted Cruz’s wife is an executive of Goldman Sachs with a net worth of $4 million. Milano had it right when she told this out-of-touch senator to “sit down”.
$15 federal minimum wage needed. pic.twitter.com/3fHzX2YGsZ
— VivaBidenHarris (@Fronterakid) December 29, 2019
His wife is an executive for @GoldmanSachs and his here trying to fool people with the @GOP is the party of the working class Schick meanwhile Mitch McConnel voted against increasing minimum wage at least 16 times and voted to increase his own wages 4 times pic.twitter.com/uULtFy4viA
— jolie me (@jolievie123) November 29, 2020
Ted Cruz, as always, is wrong. Turns out the working class doesn’t like anti-Union tactics and refusing to raise the minimum wage. https://t.co/TnhZX5mIk7 pic.twitter.com/Ds2M3r7IqG
— Stanley Rhodes (@sw_rhodes) November 29, 2020
Oh Dear God.
So impose a minimum sales tax on Amazon on top of the $15 minimum wage.
Install a UBI.
If you need creative ideas, fella, just look to progressives.
Don’t be looking to Ted Cruz for anything except the spectacle of fellatio to power.
— Mickey Hawaii (@BoxofChox) December 1, 2020
Ted, bro. Listen you love to get into it with people on Twitter but we see no action from you. @JamesGunn wouldn’t name an outhouse after you. Alyssa just answered the question. She’s the boss.
— Manos Torgo (@manostorgo) November 30, 2020
