Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) told the Truth Gazette that he thinks it’s very likely he’ll win the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
Noting that he ended up “placing second” during the 2016 GOP primaries, Cruz said: “There’s a reason historically that the runner-up is almost always the next nominee. That’s been true going back to Nixon or Reagan, or McCain or Romney. That’s played out repeatedly.”
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Navigating the Nonsense
Trial Balloon · Ep. 189: Navigating the Nonsense
Quote of the Day
“Trump broke Ted Cruz. A real man would be defending his wife, and his father and the Constitution.”
— Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), on CNN.
Ted Cruz Mulling Another Presidential Bid
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told Newsmax he was considering a presidential run in 2024.
Said Cruz: “I’m certainly looking at it… 2016 was the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. We came incredibly close.”
Don’t Retweet Ted Cruz
Dan Pfieffer: “I understand the impulse. Ted Cruz is incredibly annoying. He is one of the most transparently cynical human beings to walk the planet. If the two most annoying people in your high school class had a child, that child would be Ted Cruz.”
“But every reply, quote tweet, and clever dunk aids them and gives them the thing they strive for most: attention. Every time someone yells at Cruz online, it makes him happy because it means his strategy is working.”
Anil Dash: “A reminder that may not be obvious: amplification on social networks has monetary value. Twitter’s algorithm counts it as engagement even if you shared a tweet to criticize it or mock it, and uses that signal to amplify the tweet further. Only RT what you would pay to promote.”
Ted Cruz Builds Massive War Chest
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) announced on Tuesday that he raised a massive $5,317,000 in the January-March first quarter of fundraising this year, Fox News reports.
Cruz Offers a ‘Cancel Culture Collectible’
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) emailed donors offering those who chip in $60 will get a copy of Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs & Ham signed by the Texas senator, calling it a “cancel culture collectible” that will “be a great conversation piece.”
Cruz Pocketing Money He’s Raising for Georgia Runoffs
“Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) needs your help to keep the U.S. Senate in Republican hands. So blared a handful of Facebook’s ads that Cruz’s campaign committee purchased this month. But none of them were actually raising money for the Republican candidates in Georgia. Instead, every penny donated went directly to…Cruz,” the Daily Beast reports.
“The Cruz campaign bought 15 separate ads on Facebook over the past two weeks, each featuring a video of the senator dramatically hyping the need to hold two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia runoff contests.”
Cruz Plans to Run for President Again
Sen. Ted. Cruz (R-TX) told the Christian Science Monitor that he would take another crack at the White House one day.
Said Cruz: “Look, I hope to run again. We came very, very close in 2016. And it’s the most fun I’ve ever had in my life.”
Cruz Was Dismayed Over Pro-Trump Bias of Fox News
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was convinced during the 2016 presidential campaign that Donald Trump was actively assisted by Fox News and its late chief Roger Ailes, according to an explosive new book, American Carnage, The Guardian reports.
The book “reveals vivid details of the relationship between Trump and his favorite TV channel, as well as chronicling the dismay it invoked in senior Republicans.”
Cruz Blasts Bennet’s Presidential Bid
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) ripped Sen. Michael Bennet’s (D-CO) newly announced presidential campaign, calling it a “Seinfeld campaign” because it is “about nothing,” The Hill reports.
Said Cruz: “In a decade in the Senate, he’s done very little…but he did stomp his foot and yell at me on Senate floor (which he features in fundraising emails).”
“Bennet, a normally quiet, moderate senator, made headlines earlier this year after he blasted Cruz in a now viral speech after Cruz with other Republicans introduced a bill to pay the Coast Guard during a partial government shutdown.”
Bennet Eviscerates Cruz In Senate Speech
“Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), typically a mild-mannered, congenial guy, on Thursday unleashed all of his furor over the partial government shutdown on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX),” the Washington Post reports.
“In a fiery exchange that played out on the Senate floor shortly before votes on two competing bills to reopen the government, Bennet raised his voice and seemed to let loose six years of pent-up ire directed at Cruz for leading an earlier shutdown.”
Trump’s Rally for Cruz Could Energize Democrats
Texas Tribune: “When President Donald Trump first announced he would travel to Texas to campaign for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, at least one Texas Republican operative prayed for the rally to take place at Kyle Field in College Station — and the sentiment had nothing to do with Aggie pride.”
“At issue was a fear that if the Trump rally took place in one of Texas’ big cities — particularly Dallas or Houston — the president’s presence could further incite the Democratic base in races where Republican incumbents are in the fights of their political lives.”
“The prayer wasn’t answered. Instead, Trump is headed to the heart of Houston on Monday. And some — but not all — Texas Republican operatives are anxious that he could hurt local incumbents, particularly U.S. Rep. John Culberson and state Rep. Sarah Davis.”
Cruz Won’t Say If Trump Is a Friend
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) declined to say whether he views President Trump as a friend or a foe, describing him as simply “the president,” the Washington Post reports.
Said Cruz: “He’s the president. I work with the president in delivering on our promises. What I told the president the week after the election, I said, ‘Mr. President, I want to do everything humanly possible to roll up my sleeves and lead the fight in the Senate to deliver on our promises.”
Is Ted Cruz ‘Tough as Texas’?
Rolling Stone: “The ad — which was paid for by an anti-Cruz PAC and was not endorsed by his senate opponent, Beto O’Rourke — is beautiful in its simplicity, and strikes to the heart of Cruz’s campaign, which has revolved around the idea that he is more authentically Texan than his challenger.”
Cruz Heckled Out of Restaurant
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “was forced to leave a Washington restaurant Monday after left-wing activists swarmed the senator, heckling him with chants and demanding to know his position on embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh,” CNN reports.
Trump Tweet Attacking Cruz Will Be Featured on Billboard
David Hogg, a Parkland school shooting survivor, has helped to raise nearly $10,000 through a GoFundMe campaign to put up a billboard featuring a 2016 tweet from Donald Trump attacking Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Axios reports.
Said the tweet: “Why would the people of Texas support Ted Cruz when he has accomplished absolutely nothing for them. He is another all talk, no action pol!”
Cruz Says Obama Was a ‘Russian Bootlicker’
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “used a protester’s outburst Saturday to riff on how unhinged the left is, how the display of anger was evidence of the tough race he faces against Rep. Beto O’Rourke in the fall, and how it was really President Obama who colluded with Russia,” the Austin American Statesman reports.
Said Cruz: “It seems to me the very definition of cowardice is standing up and screaming like a child and being afraid to engage in any substance, not knowing any substance, which is why you’re afraid to engage in any substance, and just yelling, ‘Russia, Russia, Russia,’ which is what I guess the fever swamps of the left have told him.”
He added: “The irony of course is that eight years of Obama were eight years of absolute appeasement. We saw eight years of bootlicking for Vladimir Putin.”
Cruz Urges Vote Against Republican In Illinois
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “made known his distaste for a Republican congressional candidate who is a Holocaust denier — so much so that he encouraged people in that district to vote for the Democrat,” the Daily Beast reports.
Said Cruz: “This is horrific. An avowed Nazi running for Congress.”
He added: “To the good people of Illinois, you have two reasonable choices: write in another candidate, or vote for the Democrat. This bigoted fool should receive ZERO votes.”
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