Senator Ted Cruz Calls Hollywood 'Out of Touch,' Democrats 'Coastal Elites' | TMZ Live - video Dailymotion

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Senator Ted Cruz is taking shots at Hollywood ... calling the industry's brightest stars "out of touch" with what America actually wants.

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00:00Senator Ted Cruz the guy who some would say earned the nickname lion Ted Cruz except this time he might be dropping a truth bomb

00:08One that will be difficult for some people

00:10to digest but

00:12Especially in our town. Yes. He was in DC. I think this is at Reagan National

00:18It is photog caught up with him and asked him about in the after in the aftermath of the election

00:24What can Hollywood learn from this will

00:28Hollywood learn anything from what happened on Election Day

00:31Here's what he had to say the truth with Hollywood is it's about time Hollywood switches over now

00:37It comes over more to the Republican sides. They understand

00:40Well, if they want to listen to America, they should election night was pretty compelling

00:44It's not new that Hollywood is out of touch that they're

00:48They're rich and they're protected. They've got armed guards

00:52So they don't they don't actually understand what working people are locked today Democrats are the party of rich coastal elites

01:00and

01:01Republicans in the party of truck drivers and steelworkers

01:04Thomas firefighters waiters waitresses and the people who work for a living and you know Hollywood

01:10Frankly, they look down on on the working men and women of this country

01:14And I think election was a giant screw you to the folks who looked out on them and said, you know

01:20Do you know what really bugs me about this is he says how Hollywood doesn't understand the working people and is disconnected with America

01:28But doesn't give any reasons as to why I'd love to hear from Ted Cruz and from other people who say this type of stuff

01:34How is all Hollywood out of touch? Is it out of touch because there's too much of an emphasis on diversity and inclusion

01:42Is that the issue here? Because if you just say Hollywood's out of touch, you know, they don't get what's going on with real people

01:49It's like anyone can just make statements like that

01:52Why don't you go into depth a little bit more rather than just creating a boogeyman for people to turn against I hear you Jacob

01:59But I think he's right. I mean when you look at this election

02:03It's true that I mean

02:05I'm an old-line Democrat and it used to be the Party of Labor and it was a party of working people and all and

02:14Minorities and it's shifting and it there's got to be there are reasons that are reasons that what he's saying

02:21Again with the it's irrelevant whether you support this guy or not

02:25But what he's saying is that I think shaming people, you know, which is what happened in Hollywood

02:31You know talking about supporters is garbage and deplorables and all of that and saying if you support Trump

02:38You're automatically a racist and a xenophobe. I think

02:42He's kind of right I want to say people reacted to that and I don't disagree with you

02:46but I want to say something in defense of Hollywood and I think outside of

02:51LA a lot of people may not realize this Hollywood is the majority of Hollywood are hard-working people

02:57Yes, we all see the actors who are on screen and they're make millions and millions of dollars, right?

03:03But there are you're right every one of them. There are you're right 400

03:09Hard-working people who don't make millions and millions of dollars, but the thing and they are

03:13Hard-working people just like anyone really true, but it's absolutely true

03:16But the problem is the people with the megaphone are those people with a lot of money

03:21Yeah, Jacob's really involved in politics. He's in he's our senior producer in New York

03:27If you were running a campaign next time, would you in would you?

03:33Would you cater to celebrities and say oh we want so-and-so to appear so-and-so to sing so-and-so to speak

03:39I think I would I just as a Democrat. I would definitely do it

03:43I would just be again mindful of it because what the Democrats at this time is they just

03:47Replicated the Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign, which obviously didn't work at all

03:52I'm not sure I would embrace celebrities the way it's been done in the past because it ain't working

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