They’re minors and he used their pictures without their parents’ permission, seemingly calling them “boys in girls’ sports.”
Republican Ted Cruz’s desperate search for trans targets in a hateful series of anti-trans attack ads directed at his Democratic opponent Colin Allred has landed the two-term Texas senator in hot water with the parents of two cisgender girls and their high school.
The teens appear in at least two fear-mongering ads attacking both the trans community and Allred, picturing them alongside former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas and CeCé Telfer, a Jamaican-born sprinter and the first out trans woman to win an NCAA title.
So the one on the right in the picture is actually Jackie Haffner, the one who originally complained to Central Oregon Daily about Ada Gallagher competing as a girl in the Sherwood Need For Speed Classic. Even though they were in different disciplines. Ada was running while Jackie was jumping.
Here is Jackie wearing that same piece of clothing and hairstyle of the picture but at a different meet, just for proof that it’s really her in the picture: https://youtu.be/wLFJRcMVctY?t=35
The one in the left of the picture is Saskia Dorf, see here: https://concordia-university-river-forest-illinois.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?event_id=14466&do=videos&video_id=389703
Certainly neither is Ada. Ada is the winner in heat 1 of the 200m sprint, there is a picture of their photo finish available here: https://live.athletictiming.net/meets/33717/events/individual/1224515
I think it’s most likely that the Cruz campaign fucked up, didn’t do their research and assumed Saskia was trans just because she’s tall and sporty. The other option is that they wanted to depict the poor uncomfortable girls who have to compete against a trans girl, except they didn’t since they weren’t on the track that day.