Actress Sydney Sweeney has drawn an unlikely supporter after an ad campaign for denim sparked outrage. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz weighed in on the backlash over the American Eagle campaign this week, blaming the “crazy left” for the uproar.

U.S. fashion retailer American Eagle Outfitters wanted to make a splash with its new advertising campaign starring 27-year-old actor Sydney Sweeney. It has.

For context, the tagline of the campaign is “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans,” and, as is explicitly pointed out, the whole thing is a play on Sydney’s “great genes.” Some people have taken issue with the glorification of Sydney’s genetics as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, white woman, accusing AE of promoting eugenics and “ white supremacy .”