| A new column in the San Antonio Current is calling out De La Cruz for claiming to be a fighter for working families, when in reality he’s “an unabashed cheerleader for a president whose policies have repeatedly kicked those same families when they’re down.”
During Republicans’ Dallas convention, De La Cruz claimed he’s “fighting for the family sitting at the kitchen table tonight, doing the math on the rent, the groceries and the gas” — despite the fact that he champions Trump’s agenda that’s sent costs skyrocketing across the board.
The local columnist’s message to De La Cruz is simple: “This assclown can’t have it both ways. He can either stand with working families or keep riding the Trump train. Pretending he can do both is an insult to our intelligence.”
Read the brutal column for yourself:
San Antonio Current: Embracing the Trump grift with U.S. House candidate Carlos De La Cruz
- Carlos De La Cruz, who’s running to represent Texas’ 35th District in the U.S. House, wants voters to believe he’s a champion of working families. The Republican political novice has repeated that claim in speeches and TV ads.
- But here’s one problem with the working-class hero act: De La Cruz is also an unabashed cheerleader for a president whose policies have repeatedly kicked those same families when they’re down.Â
- During a speech at Dallas’ Republican midterm convention, De La Cruz tried to cast himself as a defender of average folks struggling to make ends meet.
- “I’m fighting for the family sitting at the kitchen table tonight, doing the math on the rent, the groceries and the gas, and wondering how it all adds up,” he declared.
- That’s rich coming from someone whose campaign ads trumpet President Donald Trump’s full endorsement, not to mention his own MAGA fealty.
- Worse, Trump championed the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which delivered enormous tax benefits to the wealthy while slashing Medicaid and food assistance programs that millions of working families depend on.Â
- Those cuts aren’t abstract numbers on a congressional spreadsheet. They mean families in District 35 will struggle to afford medical care and put food on the table.
- …As recently as the president’s October rally in San Antonio, De La Cruz was there to kiss the ring. Indeed, the rally was scheduled in part to help drag De La Cruz across the finish line.
- There’s something profoundly dishonest about posing as a defender of working people while enthusiastically embracing policies that bend them over.
- If De La Cruz actually wants an economy that serves working families, he should explain where he parts ways with Trump. Which safety-net cuts would he work to reverse if elected? Which insider deals would he investigate as a member of Congress?
- Until then, his kitchen-table talk is just so much bullshit.Â
- This assclown can’t have it both ways. He can either stand with working families or keep riding the Trump train. Pretending he can do both is an insult to our intelligence.
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