Ted Cruz's Approval Rating Among Republicans Drops More Than 20 Percent After Cancun Fiasco

Cruz's approval rating with Republicans dropped 23 points from January when he had a 76 percent approval rating from Texas Republicans. Cruz faced off against Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-TX) in 2018, where the incumbent Cruz won with just 50.9 percent to O'Rourke's 48.3 percent.

'Therapeutic' Ted Cruz pinata draws cheers from Texans (Raw Storylink): A party store in Dallas, Texas is earning some praise from critics of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) after it created a piñata in the senator's likeness. 

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reports that the ABC Party HQ in Dallas created the Cruz pinata after the senator was caught fleeing his state's catastrophic power outages to vacation on the beaches of Cancun.

The pinata depicts Cruz carrying a suitcase and holding a passport while wearing his face mask that has the Texas state flag emblazoned across the front of it.

 "Each pinata is handmade and takes three to five days to complete," reports NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. "The Cruz 3-and-a-half-feet-tall piñata costs $100 and has to be pre-ordered, followed by an approximate 2-week wait."

Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Trump had been banned from Facebook and Instagram indefinitely following the Capitol insurrection, which took place after the former president incited his supporters to disrupt the electoral certification of President Joe Biden’s win.

“We can confirm that a user statement has been received in the case before the Oversight Board concerning President Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts,” a spokesperson said in a statement. 

Facebook requested the board’s “observations or recommendations on suspensions when the user is a political leader,” a sign that the board’s decision on Trump could influence how the platform handles future bans on world leaders. 

“The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden,” Zuckerberg wrote on January 7, the day after the attack, which left five people, including a Capitol Police officer, dead. 

“His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the US and around the world. We removed these statements yesterday because we judged that their effect — and likely their intent — would be to provoke further violence.”

Mod: I guess we shall see.

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