Dallas Morning News Trolled for Report Ted Cruz's Teen 'Disagrees With Most of His Views'

People are trolling The Dallas Morning News over its report that Caroline Cruz, the 13-year-old daughter of Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz, disagrees with most of his views.

The article, headlined, "Ted Cruz's daughter takes to TikTok to discuss life as senator's kid," mentioned Caroline's recent TikTok in which she discussed the pros and cons of being a senator's daughter.

She said she enjoys the travel perks as well as the gifts that her father's supporters send. However, she also said she dislikes having two security guards following her around whenever she goes on a walk or to a friend's house.

"A lot of people judge me based upon him at first glance," she added, "but I really disagree with most of his views."

Her TikTok account has since been set to private.

Michael Williams, author of The Dallas Morning News article, wrote, "Children of politicians sharing their views are nothing new. Former President Ronald Reagan's son, Ron, said he often disagreed with his father. But politicians raising Generation Z children have to contend with a ready access to social media that previous generations never did."

Some Twitter users praised his daughter's disagreement, especially since Cruz is an infamously outspoken right-wing senator. He has opposed child COVID-19 vaccinations, legal recognition of same-sex marriages, fled Texas for a vacation during its deadly winter storms and encouraged investigations into baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election.

However, some commenters questioned the article's newsworthiness, noting that it's hardly news that teenagers often disagree with their parents. Some said the article proved the publication's anti-conservative political bias.

Others found it "sleazy" that a news organization monitored the social media of a politician's teenage daughter. However, Williams' article noted that the story was first broken by another local publication, The Dallas Observer.

Republican Texas state Senator @DrewSpringer tagged Dallas Morning News, the publication's Austin bureau chief and the publication's Texas statehouse reporter in his denunciation of the story on Twitter. He told the reporters never to contact him again.

Springer's tweet read, "Hey @DallasNews, @RobertTGarrett, @MorrisReports do you need my kids TikTok account to do your next story? Because don't bother calling me. Bob & Allie y'all are better than this. #txlege #LeaveKidsOutOfPolitics".

Right-wing men's rights activist and conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich wrote, "Why are you stalking a child's TikTok - auditioning for CNN?"

Twitter user @EricColumbus wrote, "What a 13-year-old says about her dad on TikTok — in an account that had been made private prior to publishing this story — is not newsworthy, absent some extraordinary revelation. And I say this as someone who despises him."

@aaron_renn wrote, "His daughter is 13 and the media is stalking and writing about her TikTok. Very sleazy and inappropriate."

@heckyessica wrote, "Ted Cruz's daughters are 10 and 13. we're getting more 'dirt' from minors than the president's 51 year-old son. Our media is so gross."

@douglaskarr wrote, "Dallas Morning News agrees 'with views of a 13-year old'. #ifixeditforyou".