Texas' personal Kacey Musgraves took a shot at 'buzzkill' Ted Cruz whereas performing deep within the coronary heart of the Lone Star State.
“You'll be able to inform Kacey Musgraves is an actual Texan by the amount of her hair and the way a lot she hates Ted Cruz,” tweeted Cat Cardenas. The author/editor/photographer was in attendance throughout Kacey’s headlining set on the Austin Metropolis Limits Music Competition on Sunday night time and shared a video of Musgraves, 34, taking a shot at Sen. Ted Cruz. Whereas performing her music “Excessive Horse,” Musgraves labored the Texan Republican’s identify into the lyrics, singing, “trigger everybody is aware of somebody who kills the thrill / each time they open their mouth — Ted Cruz!” Because the viewers cheered, Musgraves added, “I stated what I stated.”
you possibly can inform @KaceyMusgraves is an actual Texan by the amount of her hair and the way a lot she hates Ted Cruz ❤️ pic.twitter.com/HNXbN0xjo3
— Cat Cardenas (@catrcardenas) October 10, 2022
The nation singer has a historical past of taking a shot on the controversial politician. Cruz, 51, famously took his household on a visit to Cancún, Mexico, in February 2021 after a winter storm hit Texas, leaving residents with out electrical energy, water, and warmth. Although Cruz initially claimed he was dropping off his kids, The New York Instances revealed leaked texts between Sen. Cruz’s spouse, Heidi Cruz, and a few of their Houston neighbors. Mrs. Cruz complained that their home was “FREEZING,” she allegedly “invited others to hitch them on the Ritz-Carlton in Cancún, the place they'd stayed “many instances.” In response to all this, Kacey Musgraves tweeted, “*makes ‘CRUZIN FOR A BRUZIN’ tees* donates earnings to Texans in want.” She later tweeted, “Hyperlink coming quickly. Don’t RUN OFF wherever…” and “Texas is chilly, I will be chilly.
*makes “CRUZIN FOR A BRUZIN” tees
* donates earnings to Texans in want— Okay A C E Y (@KaceyMusgraves) February 18, 2021
Texas is chilly, I will be chilly. https://t.co/TglB3AsEkt
— Okay A C E Y (@KaceyMusgraves) February 19, 2021
Musgraves’s shade comes roughly every week after Harry Kinds dipped his toe into Texas politics. Whereas performing on the Moody Middle in Austin, the “As It Was” singer determined to throw his help behind Beto O’Rourke, who's at the moment operating to unseat Texas Gov. Greg Abbott within the upcoming election. Whereas enjoying his guitar, Harry pointed to the “Beto For Texas” sticker he positioned on the instrument. O’Rourke, 50, was in attendance that night time, and Kinds identified the politician earlier than calling him a “beautiful, beautiful man.”
O’Rourke has been hammering Abbot over gun violence – he famously crashed Gov. Abbot’s press convention following the bloodbath at Robb Elementary faculty in Uvalde – and Abbot’s marketing campaign to strip bodily autonomy away from ladies by outlawing abortion after six weeks.
Nonetheless, it’s been an uphill battle for Beto. Although O’Rourke got here near defeating Ted Cruz within the 2018 Senate race, Newsweekfactors out that Gov. Abbot has led O’Rourke “in each Texas ballot this 12 months.” Although Abbot has led the polls, Newsweek additionally famous that O’Rourke has been in a position to reduce that lead right down to single digits.