It’s a clip his campaign now plays at town-hall meetings. “How about talking about the substantive issues people care about?” Cruz asked as the crowd roared its approval. He got one of the loudest ovations of any debate in October when he skewered questions being asked by the moderators. and Mexico border.Ĭruz was a collegiate debating champion at Princeton, and he has shown flashes of rhetorical flourish during the debates.
Along the way he wants to abolish the IRS and Education Department, undo the Iranian nuclear deal and build a wall between the U.S. Cruz argues he wants to make the 2016 presidential election a referendum on the health care law and his plans to institute a flat tax, rewriting and simplifying the income tax code. Seuss classic “Green Eggs and Ham” to his daughters, said to be watching their father at home, was partly behind a 16-day partial government shutdown the next month. The speech, during which Cruz read the Dr. Bush administration, at both the Federal Trade Commission and as an associate deputy attorney general at the Justice Department.Ĭruz became a favorite of tea party conservatives when for 21 hours and 19 minutes in September 2013, he stood in the Senate to urge Congress to cut off money for Obama’s health care law. A graduate of Harvard Law School and clerk for Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, Cruz led a Houston-based firm’s Supreme Court practice, taught such litigation at the University of Texas and was charged with representing the state before the high court as its solicitor general. As he likes to tell voters in early voting states, “If you see a candidate who Washington embraces, run and hide.”īefore his election to the Senate, Cruz had a career centered on practicing law at the highest level. John McCain famously labeled Cruz as one of the Senate’s “wacko birds” - but Cruz is unapologetic. It’s an approach that has annoyed fellow Republicans - Arizona Sen. He’s proceeded since with the same disregard for the GOP establishment, at times maneuvering quixotically in the Senate to mount an aggressive opposition to President Barack Obama. He won election to the Senate in 2012 as a political rookie in Texas, riding a tea party wave to upset a candidate with decades of experience and deep connections inside the Republican Party. Ted Cruz has risen from being almost unknown in Iowa to being one of the front-runners. Here’s a quick snapshot of things to know about him. Ted Cruz tries to position himself as the only consistent conservative in the race for president, railing against the “Washington cartel” while pushing a conservative agenda that appeals to the tea party and evangelical wings of the Republican Party.
(AP Photo/Chris Carlson)ĭES MOINES, Iowa - Texas Sen. Donald, you are a sniveling coward, and leave Heidi the hell alone.Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio talk after a Republican presidential primary debate, Thursday, Jan. "But you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that'll do it every time. I don't get angry often," Cruz told reporters after touring a manufacturing plant in Dane, Wis. "Your wife is lovely, and Heidi is the love of my life," Cruz tweeted back Tuesday evening.Ĭampaigning Thursday afternoon in Wisconsin, which holds its GOP primary on April 5, Cruz went even further on the attack against his GOP rival after the latest volley from Trump against Heidi Cruz, a former Goldman Sachs executive. On Tuesday evening, Trump attacked Cruz for the ad, threatening on Twitter, "Be careful, Lyin' Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!" Cruz has disavowed the ad from the unaffiliated Make America Awesome superPAC. The latest swipe at Heidi Cruz's appearance comes after an anti-Trump superPAC ran a Facebook ad campaign in Utah using a photo of Trump's wife, Melania, a former model, posing partially nude. " "A picture is worth a thousand words" #LyingTed #NeverCruz /5bvVEwMVF8"- Donald J.
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