Gretchen Whitmer destroyed Ted Cruz and he deleted the tweet in minutes

[kpete]

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[riversedge]

1. Gretchen Whitmer has class. She did it right--the post.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

17. Yep. From the Chelsea Clinton playbook. n/t

[Siwsan]

2. I am SO proud of my Governor!

The GOP better come to understand that she is fierce when it comes to defending and taking care of her state. Classy and fierce.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

13. +1...

Hi Siwsan...hope all is well. I’ll miss her if she gets picked for VP but all in good time.
Stay safe and healthy

[Siwsan]

20. Thanks! Things are as well as they can be, under the circumstances!

I'd miss her, too, but we have a great Lt. Governor, too. A very TALL, great Lt. Governor.

[demmiblue]

3. And the person (who appears to be a "journalist") who posted it hasn't taken it down:

Link to tweet

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[MyOwnPeace]

4. It's amazing how many times

Ted Cruz goes out of his way to prove what an idiot he is! And yet he is a person in a position of power, making decisions that affect us all.

[DFW]

5. Eloquently phrased!

The speed with which Cruz took his post down is indicative of how deeply he felt the sting.

One brilliant post on that thread, I thought, was this:

"Nobody tell the Evangelicals that as soon as they made a godless, lying, lawless, womanizing conman their messiah, a plague showed up."

That should be on placards in front of every Evangelical church in the country.

[2naSalit]

6. +1

It would be a good thing to put on a billboard.

[flibbitygiblets]

9. I would change it to "EVERYBODY tell the Evangelicals..."

They're prone to magical thinking anyway, why not use their gullibility to persuade them to act in their own best interest for a change?

[DFW]

16. I actually agree with you

I just pasted the post as I saw it.

[thesquanderer]

21. re: "The speed with which Cruz took his post down is indicative of how deeply he felt the sting"

Maybe he just took it down once he learned he was in error. I don't see where speed comes into it. If he had seen it an hour later (or more) and taken it down then, what difference would that make?

I don't know, I just don't get these posts like the OP saying he was "destroyed", etc. He found out he was wrong, he took it down, seems as simple as that.

[DFW]

22. I don't follow twitter

But I think either Cruz or someone on his staff didn't want an erroneous nasty swipe at the Governor up there a second longer when they found out it was wrong, because EVERYTHING is ammunition for the opposition these days. Plus, his post was snarky where Whitmer killed him with kindness. I don't think he wanted THAT comparison up there for the world to see any longer than he had to, either.

[LisaM]

26. But why wouldn't they check it out first? Honestly.

It doesn't take long to research something like that, and public officials should be held to a higher standard in that regard anyway.

[dalton99a]

7. Kick

[Bettie]

8. I like that she doesn't let this

stuff go.

She's willing and able to stand up to them.

[panader0]

10. Where is Cruz's tweet?

[TheRickles]

11. At the top of DaltonA's expanded image

"As I count it, that's $11k right there" (ie, the 11 people in the photo should be fined for standing so close to each other)

[marble falls]

12. This Texan supports THAT woman.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. "destroyed Ted Cruz"

THAT's a headline that gets attention! Yeah, she uppercut him really good. Make that 'destroyed lame brain Ted Cruz'.

[tiredtoo]

15. Thanks for sharing this

I searched all day yesterday to find data to debunk this picture/statement.

[Takket]

18. it was a dumb thing for Cruz to say... but as a frequent channel 7 viewer i will be writing them to

complain about the picture they used. there is no way they could make such mistake by accident. it is just an amazing coincidence that in a story about social distancing they went and found a photo to use of her a a bill signing surrounded by people? no one thought about how bad that would look to a viewer that didn't realize it was stock? Give me a break

[Tripper11]

19. The decent thing to do...

...would have been to simply apologize for the mistake. Pathetic children with no humanity, no empathy, no brains. All I can say is Darwinism will prevail.

[lettucebe]

23. She didn't destroy him, just corrected him, and surprisingly he did the right thing

[Permanut]

25. Disagree..

He slandered a public figure (typical GOP tactic), got caught, and pressed the undo button. Rinse and repeat.

[Blue Owl]

24. Whitmer ain't bailing out the Cruz industry