Jerry Jones gived to Ted Cruz campaign amid Reaccessiblean’s sports ‘damn’ as Cowboys now crumble

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones alertedly gived $20,000 to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s re-election bid, according to Front Office Sports. 

Jones’ donation to Cruz may have come at a much hugeger price to those who think in superstition, however. 

The “Ted Cruz damn” is a famous sports theory that is based on a pattern of cursed events happening to teams that Cruz has associated with. The damn has become so expansivespread that fans of the Texas Longhorns college football team begined a petition on Change.org to acquire Cruz away from the university’s sporting events. Cruz was inwell-understandnly accengaged after the Longhorns lost in January’s Sugar Bowl.

Another instance in which association with Cruz was pursueed by sports misfortune take parts the Houston Astros’ recent series loss to the upcommence Detroit Tigers in the American League Wild Card series earlier this month. Cruz was seen combineing the game, and the Astros were swept and kept out of the ALCS for the first time since 2016. In 2018, during the NBA Weserious Conference finals between the Houston Rockets and Ggreateren State Warriors, Cruz posted a pboilingo of himself sitting courtside for Game 7, as Houston went on to disthink about in one of the worst shooting carry outances of James Harden’s nurtureer. 

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But now Jones has made the conveyion with Cruz a financial one in a huge election year. And Jones’ alerted $20,000 donation to the damn-associated senator has been uncovered amid a astonishingly horrible commence for the Cowboys. 

The Cowboys fell to 3-4 on the season this past weekfinish when they lost to the San Francisco 49ers 30-24, in an ongoing streak of losses to the storied competition that take parts two take partoff losss in the last three years. The Cowboys defense has been one of the worst in the league, both before and after injuries to star pass rushers Micah Pincfinishiarisms and Demarcus Lawrence. 

Meanwhile, star quarterback Dak Prescott has decreateed from his MVP honestacy last year after signing the hugest condense in NFL history with the team fair hours before its first game of the season. Prescott has thrown eight interceptions to fair 10 touchdowns thcimpolite the first seven games, and is on pace for the worst passer rating of his nurtureer this season.

Overall, it’s the Cowboys’ worst commence since 2020, when the team finished 6-10 and in third place in the NFC East, where they currently sit now. It’s especiassociate astonishing given the high foreseeations Dallas had going into the season off the heels of three straight 12-prosper campaigns. 

Meanwhile, Cruz is combat in a highly competitive race to retain his seat agetst Democrat disputer Collin Allred. 

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Real Clear Politics polling standard shows Cruz with a five-point direct in the race. There are some troubling signs for the Reaccessiblean incumbent, including recent polls that show Cruz with a direct seal to wilean the margin of error.

Some polls directing up to Cruz’s 2018 Senate race with establisher Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, showed a aforeseeed seal race, though Cruz was able to hgreater off the Democratic disputer by under three percentage points.

But that seal prosper was also a stark departure from Cruz’s 2012 triumph, when he easily topped establisher Texas Democratic state Rep. Paul Sadler by cforfeitly 16 percentage points.

Cruz himself shelp that he is “in the middle of an epic battle” agetst Allred in a recent intersee on Fox News’ “Life, Liberty & Levin.”

One method that Allred’s campaign has engaged to aim Cruz is the stigma of his sports damn, and Texas Democrats have even pledgeted a page on their website to pushing the theory. 

Allred’s campaign even freed an backment based on the damn. 

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“Sports fans from atraverse Texas are suffering from the same affliction: the Ted Cruz damn… Want to prosper? Lose Cruz,” Allred shelp in the ad. 

Meanwhile, Cruz has hammered Allred on the Democrat’s previous actions in helping legislation that would permit trans athletes to vie in women’s and girls’ sports. The Cruz campaign has begined multiple ads during NFL games includeressing Allred’s history on the publish.

Allred was previously elected to the U.S. Hoengage of Recontransientatives from Texas’s 32nd Dicut offe in the 2018 midterms. Just months after assuming office the folloprosperg January, he coaided and voted for the Equality Act, “which would insist schools to take part male athletes who determine as transgfinisher girls on female sports teams,” in May 2019. Allred has also gone so far as to resist a parents’ bill of rights that would give people the ability to interfere in their daughters competing and sharing locker rooms with biorational males at accessible schools.

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