AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Ted Cruz warns Democrats are building a radical bench with AOC and Mamdani
Sen. Ted Cruz is sounding the alarm that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will run for president and that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will claim Chuck Schumer's Senate seat, a prospect Cruz says is "bad for the country." Cruz laid out both predictions this week during a Fox News appearance and in a post on […] The post Ted Cruz warns Democrats are building a radical bench with AOC and Mamdani appeared first on American Almanac .
Sen. Ted Cruz is sounding the alarm that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will run for president and that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will claim Chuck Schumer's Senate seat, a prospect Cruz says is "bad for the country." Cruz laid out both predictions this week during a Fox News appearance and in a post on X, framing the pair's rise not as a Republican opportunity but as a warning. The Texas senator called Mamdani "the single most powerful Democrat in the country" and pointed to fresh polling that shows Ocasio-Cortez leading the Democratic presidential field in New Hampshire. The back-to-back statements amount to a rare move: a Republican senator telling his own side to stop cheering the Democratic Party's leftward lurch and start…Open