Ted Cruz's dire warning that President Bernie Sanders would force his podcast off the air backfires hilariously
Ted Cruz speaks to CBS News (screen grab)

On the latest episode of his podcast, "The Verdict," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) offered a strange, over-the-top warning about what would happen if Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) became president. According to Cruz, Sanders would empower technology companies to purge conservative content across the internet, and his own podcast could be censored.


"As bad as [Big Tech is] now, in a Democratic administration, in a Bernie Sanders administration, they would — I am not exaggerating when I say this podcast could very well be off the air," said Cruz.

Cruz's warning was met with mockery — including from a number of people who joked that this was actually a point in favor of a Sanders presidency: