The Many Doppelgangers of Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz is not Grayson Allen, Grandpa Munster, or Wario. But he kinda looks like them.
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Ted Cruz wants you to know he is not Duke basketball player Grayson Allen.
Nor is he Kevin from The Office.
Nor is he Grandpa Munster, Wario, or the Zodiac killer—though he’s been accused of being all those things.
Ted Cruz, it seems, has a serious doppelganger problem.
On Twitter he’s been compared to Amy Sedaris, Wilson the volleyball, a melted Tobey Maguire, three toddlers stacked on top of each other, and “the villain in a movie where the hero is a dog.”
Gawker has even published a rumor that the Texas senator is secretly Princess Diana.
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Sadly for Cruz, no one has accused him of looking like a U.S. president. One person on Twitter, however, has said he “looks like he’s wearing one of those rubber President masks.”
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