This damning accusation could spell the end of Ted Cruz’s presidential hopes if it proves to be true.
My San Antonio reports that a “mysterious dude in Iowa is following Ted Cruz around and accusing him of liking Nickelback.”
“Nickelback is a Canadian band that has become synonymous with bad musical taste,” according to a report by The Washington Post.
Several sightings of him appearing outside of Cruz campaign events have been posted to Twitter showing him holding a sign that reads: “Ted Cruz Likes Nickelback.”
In most of the images, he is merely holding up his sign, but as The Washington Post reports, last “Saturday, he showed up outside a rally hosted by Cruz’s super PAC. He was dressed in a Royal Canadian Mounted Police uniform and stood behind Canadian flags he placed in the ground, as well as a picture of Cruz’s face inside a maple leaf – very similar to an image put in an ad by a super PAC supporting Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla).”
According to Washington Post, “The young man would not give his name or his affiliation, despite boasting that photos of him have whipped around the Internet, and that one appeared on the front page of The Wall Street Journal.”
“They’re both Canadian,” he said.
He has also been handing out copies of Cruz’s birth certificate. You might recall that Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Nickelback is also from Alberta.
The man told reporters: “I just don’t want, really, a Canadian in office. It seems like he’s got a lot of controversy behind him whether he’s a U.S.-born citizen or not and I’m just out here making a statement.”
Nickelback themselves weighed in on the affair in a tweet earlier this month:
NICKELBACK Employee of the Month. January 2016.#Election2016 #Nickelback4President pic.twitter.com/L4j2Y7hKbX
— Nickelback (@Nickelback) January 12, 2016
Below, you can see the man donning a Royal Canadian Mounted Police uniform followed by a few more select example of him in action.
This guy is back at Ted Cruz events in Iowa, now dressed as a Mountie pic.twitter.com/Fyb3qzAc5z
— Katie Zezima (@katiezez) January 23, 2016
NICKELBACK Employee of the Month. January 2016.#Election2016 #Nickelback4President pic.twitter.com/L4j2Y7hKbX
— Nickelback (@Nickelback) January 12, 2016
Spotted outside @tedcruz's stop this hour in Webster City, Iowa — the Nickelback protester: pic.twitter.com/5sW5cUh6E2
— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) January 7, 2016
On the Cruz bus right now pulling into his next event & this guy just greeted us. pic.twitter.com/xXoMtvMMTG
— Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) January 5, 2016
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