Ted Cruz's dire warning that President Bernie Sanders would force his podcast off the air backfires hilariously

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: