Kacey Musgraves Calls Out Sen. Ted Cruz At Austin Town Limits: ‘I Mentioned What I Mentioned’

Nation track singer Kacey Musgraves, a local Texan and not using a endurance for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), invigorated her lovers on the Austin Town Limits track competition on Saturday via including two phrases to her “Prime Horse” efficiency — and taking goal at Cruz.

“Motive we all know any individual who kills the excitement, each time they open their mouth — Ted Cruz,” Musgraves sang prior to doubling down, in keeping with the Houston Chronicle. “I stated what I stated.”

Pictures on social media confirmed how this slight alteration to the preferred disco-pop music from her “Golden Hour” album elicited overwhelming cheers and audible give a boost to.

“F the Best Courtroom in truth,” she added later. “We’re in a unusual time however we’ve were given each and every different… There’s a gentle. I promise.”

This wasn’t the primary time Musgraves took a public swipe at her Texan consultant.

The 34-year-old trolled Cruz final yr via promoting t-shirts that learn “Cruzin’ for a Bruzin’” and donating their proceeds to quite a lot of nonprofits, after the senator took an abrupt holiday to Cancún whilst Texans suffered thru paralyzing iciness climate that brought about large energy outages around the state.

“Texas is chilly,” Musgraves tweeted. “I will be able to be chilly.”

Saturday’s dig used to be doubtlessly impressed via Cruz’s fresh refusal to believe further gun keep an eye on measures — and telling the oldsters of an Uvalde faculty capturing sufferer he supported an larger police presence in colleges, as a substitute.

Cruz has additionally been a virulent proponent of the debunked conspiracy idea that former president Donald Trump gained the 2020 election, voted towards election reform and known as the legalization of same-sex marriage “obviously mistaken.”

Musgraves wasn’t the one artist to take goal at Cruz over the weekend. Nation crew The Chicks splashed cartoonish visuals throughout large monitors throughout their presentations mocking him, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the Best Courtroom justices who voted towards Roe v. Wade.

For the ones in attendance throughout Musgraves’ headlining set and onlookers on-line, her stance referring to Cruz gave the impression relatively standard — as a roster of supportive tweets urged.