Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz has criticized former U.S. President Donald Trump for failing to make financial donations to the election campaigns of Republican Senate candidates for the midterm elections scheduled for next Tuesday.
According to Cruz, Trump has spent «almost nothing» of the enormous fortune at his disposal to boost election campaigns at a key moment for the Republican Party, which could win the majority of the upper house and weigh down Joe Biden’s next two years at the head of the country.
«I wish Trump was spending some of his money (…) He has 100 million dollars (about 102 million euros) and spends almost nothing to support these candidates,» said the senator during his podcast, ‘Verdict with Ted Cruz’, according to the news portal The Hill.
In the same vein, Cruz has denounced that the Republican minority leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, has prioritized the sending of economic funds to the campaigns of the most moderate candidates and Trump’s critics, to the detriment of those who have spoken out in favor of the ideas of the former president.
«It would be nice if Trump would spend some of that $100 million to help some of these candidates that Mitch is abandoning because they are pro-Trump,» Senator Cruz has said. Over the past few months, the former president has shown his support for certain candidates, although it is true that the economic support has been limited.
Cruz was Trump’s rival in the Republican Party primaries prior to the 2016 presidential election that resulted in the rise of the U.S. tycoon to the White House. In recent months it has been theorized that the senator could run again as a contender for the 2024 elections, as well as Trump, who also flirts with this possibility.
