Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was brutally mocked by political analysts and observers after he made an inadvertent admission during an interview onFox News.

Cruz joined Fox News host Sean Hannity for an interview on Monday, where the two discussed the potential impact of the upcoming midterm elections. Cruz pointed out that Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) want to pass policies that could stifle entrepreneurial growth in America. However, Cruz may have told too much of the truth in making that point, according to some analysts.

"By the way, AOC also said it is impossible for someone to earn a billion dollars," Cruz said. "Which, look, I recognize for her, given she was a bartender, that is probably true. No disrespect to bartenders. Bartenders are an honorable profession. But she went from that to being a government employee and a parasite sucking on the taxpayer."

Some political analysts and observers called out Cruz for the notable phrase he included in his answer.

"Ted Cruz just called himself a parasite sucking on the taxpayer," Hemant Mehta, a former "Jeopardy!" champion, posted on X.

"Love him calling himself a parasite," comedian Sam Weber posted on X.

"Ted Cruz seems to have forgotten what he is, and what he was," John F. Clark, professor emeritus of media studies at the University of Kentucky, posted on X. "He’s never done anything but go to school, do some lawyering, and then go to work for the government. We need more bartenders and fewer lawyers in Congress."

A conservative columnist warned on Monday that her Republican colleagues just made a "tacit admission" about the 2026 midterms that could blow up in their face.

S.E. Cupp, a columnist for CNN, said during a segment on "The Source" with host Kaitlan Collins that Republicans have all but admitted that they don't stand a chance during the midterms with their push for mid-cycle redistricting. While those efforts seem to have paid off so far, Cupp warned that they could energize the Democratic base in a way that thwarts all the time Republicans spent trying to rig the election in their favor.

"Here's the thing that I think is important to point out if you care about democracy," Cupp said. "The republicans have done what they've done because they've been allowed to. But it's also a tacit admission that they know they cannot win without rigging it. They're out of ideas. They're not even attempting to win new voters or win back the voters that they've been losing since gaining them in 2024."

Several Republican states from Texas to Louisiana and Tennessee have adopted new election maps ahead of the midterms in an effort to preserve the Republican majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Cupp warned that voters can see through the Republicans' plans, and that may cause them to backfire in November.

"So this is the giddiness and the crowing I'm seeing from republicans about the state of the redistricting math and how it's helping Republicans," she said. "What they're not saying out loud is what I think a lot of voters can see, which is you had to rig it to make yourself competitive. And I don't even know if this will still make them competitive. They might actually be handing Democrats an advantage by really ginning up that base, firing them up to go and vote."

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board reviewed President Donald Trump's new package of ideas for reducing cost of living as voters call for blood over the issue in the midterms — and found serious problems with some of them.

Ultimately, the board concluded, some of the ideas have merit, like pausing tariffs on beef. But one other particular idea would be a massive dud.

"Mr. Trump is scavenging for ideas to reduce gasoline prices, which have climbed to a national average of $4.52 a gallon," wrote the board. "On Monday he resurrected the hoary idea of suspending the 18.4-cent-a-gallon federal excise tax on gas. 'We’re going to take off the gas tax for a period of time, and when gas goes down, we’ll let it phase back in,' he told CBS News."

The problem, wrote the board, is that aside from the fact that "Mr. Trump doesn’t have the legal authority to pause the tax on his own, so he would need Congress to pass legislation," the issue is that "a temporary pause on the federal gas tax won’t appreciably reduce how much Americans pay at the pump. After the tax holiday ends, prices will increase. A suspension would cost the highway trust fund about $2.1 billion a month in revenue, which would have to be made up with general fund revenue."

The WSJ argued that if Trump is serious about reforming federal gas taxes, a better idea is to encourage states to bear more of the responsibility.

Ultimately, the board concluded, "the best and most immediate way Mr. Trump could reduce costs for Americans would be to drop his tariffs en toto. We know that won’t happen, but it would be a big political and economic winner."