'One big snake pit': Internet slams Ted Cruz and GOP over desperate and misleading fundraising ads and emails

AUSTIN, TEXAS: The recent actions of the restructured Republican National Committee (RNC) leadership have led to increasingly desperate fundraising emails and advertisements from the GOP.

Reportedly, the official Senate Republicans account on X, formerly Twitter was flagged by the Community Notes team for sharing a misleading Ted Cruz advertisement and provided additional context to clarify the disingenuous nature of the post, according to MeidasTouch.

What prompted X to mark the Senate Republicans’ tweet with Community Notes?

The X account, Senate Republicans, claimed in their now-deleted tweet, "It's going to be deleted! Big Tech is about to deleted [sic] Ted Cruz's message in 11 minutes! View it below before it's too late >>"

The tweet was deemed misleading by the Community Notes team, who provided background to the post.

"This post is misleading. The message doesn't violate any of X's content rules, and if it did, it could not be a promoted post. Besides, there is no way to anticipate when a post will be deleted," they wrote.

The advertisement in question has elicited responses dating back to May 16th, indicating that its presence on the “Big Tech” platform significantly predates the brief 11-minute window asserted by Senate Republicans.

This sustained visibility raises concerns regarding "Big Tech's" role in allowing the ad to remain active for an extended period.

The advertisement prompts X users to "unlock the message here" through a link that diverts to a donation page featuring conspicuous text and a pop-up soliciting funds.

Notably, the content on the donation page entails Sen Ted Cruz leveraging his diminished polling figures as a call to solicit donations from conservative voters.

This sharply contrasts the Senate Republicans' assertion that the message would be expunged within 11 minutes.

Internet slams Ted Cruz and the Republican party 

People online derided the Republican Party for reaching new lows in order to attract voter attention.

One person remarked, "Ted Cruz has been a huge disappointment. He has wasted his God given intelligence and career to lick Trump's boots and gravel for whatever attention he can get from this nasty man and his clueless followers."

Another person said, "Ted Cruz should be disconnected from all media access and posts. He is just to stupid to be heard. This guy Teddy wants to support a man that said his wife is ugly and his father tries to kill Kennedy. Trump called Ted 'Lying Ted' so many times and Ted just stood there and said give me more boss. Bend me over, I don't care. Ted is a worthless scumbag. He belongs in Cancun." [sic]

Another person commented, "When are these REPUBLICANS going to STOP LYING to the AMERICAN PUBLIC?!But then again ELON MUSK is the MAIN person that's ALLOWING this GARBAGE to be printed! They have 'NO SHAME' this how they FUNCTION these days, and don't CARE about if it's TRUE!" [sic]

One person wrote, "A fraud and a grifter, just like the convicted felon he calls his fellow republican! All of the republican fraudsters need to be investigated to the fullest and held accountable for crimes they have committed. This isn’t about YOU OR YOUR PARTY! ITS ABOUT THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY!"

Another person quipped, "Say it isn't so.....Cancun Cruz said something misleading??? Well, tip me over with a feather."

Another person argued, "The republican party has become one big snake pit."

Finally, a person claimed, "I'll be really glad when Cruz doesn't get re-elected."

This article contains remarks made on the Internet by individual people and organizations. MEAWW cannot confirm them independently and does not support claims or opinions being made online.