Utah Senator Mike Lee announced on Thursday to reporters that he is endorsing Ted Cruz for President, becoming the first sitting U.S. senator to back his fellow colleague.
"We have reached a point when we need to unite behind a single candidate," Lee said, addressing reporters inside the debate media spin room in University of Miami, Florida. "I'm sending the signal that it is time to unite. We as Republicans need to unite behind one leader... we need to unite behind Ted Cruz."
GOP front-runner Donald Trump has hit Cruz in the past for not being able to gain any support or endorsement from his colleagues. This endorsement in Rubio's own backyard comes in days before the Florida Republican primary as many GOP leaders are now looking to the Texas Senator as the only viable candidate who has the best chance to stop Trump as
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"I expect that I'll be the first of many Republican senators who will endorse Ted Cruz," he said. "I'm confident that more are on the way, and I welcome others to join me."
In the past, Lee declined to formally endorse Cruz, or the two other Senators, Rubio and Rand Paul, citing he was very close with all three. "One of the weirdest things that can happen to a person is to have his three favorite co-workers all running for president of the United States at the same time," Lee said in December when asked who would he endorsed.
Now Paul has dropped out early February to focus on his reelection seat in Kentucky, it was down to two young Senators for Lee to decide. With Rubio's campaign on life support heading into next Tuesday's contest, with all or nothing left in his home state of Florida, Cruz is having a good week. He has already won seven contested states and gained a total count of 359 delegates, establishing himself as the candidate with the best chance to defeat
Since then, the Duggars haven't shared who they are supporting, but a lot of people assume that it could be Cruz. Everyone would love to know who the Duggars want to win, but they are smart. They know that if they back someone it could hurt their campaign. After the big Josh Duggar scandal, they have been staying out of the headlines if they can.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) after his speech at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., on March 23, 2015.
Senator Cornyn has a long history in politics and legislation. He served as a district judge, a justice on the Texas Supreme Court, and Attorney General of Texas, all before being elected to the Texas State Senate in 2002. Cornyn has worked to improve international relationships, tax reform, and small business relationships. He has been recognized and awarded for his work in all three subjects. Senator Cornyn is actively serving on the Senate’s Finance and Judiciary Committees, and is also the Majority Whip. Senator Ted Cruz is a first time senator who was elected in 2012. Cruz is currently serving on five senate committees: Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Armed Services; Judiciary; Joint Economic; and Rules and Administration. Before becoming a Senator, Cruz was the youngest, longest serving, and first Hispanic Solicitor General in the state of Texas. Now, Senator Ted Cruz is running as a republican candidate for President in the elections of
The sponsor of SB 4 is Senator Charles Perry from Lubbock, Texas and of the Republican Party. He received his education at Texas Tech University and is a practicing Certified Public Account from the city of Lubbock found in the northwest area of the state. Before becoming a member of the Senate in 2014, he was a member of the House from 2010-2014. Additionally, he is supported by 19 co-sponsors also of the Republican Party making this a partisan bill (Texas Legislature Online, 2016).
Rafael Edward Cruz was born December 22, 1970. Cruz was elected to the U.S senate in 2012 and was the first Hispanic American to serve as a U.S senator representing Texas. Ted Cruz is a republican candidate who strongly supports keeping god in public schools, stricter punishment that reduces crime, expanding the military, stricter limits on political campaign funds, and never legalizing marijuana. As well Cruz opposes abortion being a woman s right, same sex marriage and LGBT rights, pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens, and stay out of Iran.
Many candidates could be elected to senate, but Marco Rubio would be the best. Marco Rubio should be elected to senate because he will lower healthcare cost for seniors, repeal Obamacare, and allow people to control their own healthcare choices.
Two months ago, Kasich became the last GOP candidate to drop out, making Trump the presumptive nominee. If he would have gone forward, Kasich told the crowd he would have told voters things that weren't true.
My name is Khoa Mai and I’m writing to you to actively support the nomination of Rand Paul as your party ‘s nominee for the office of President of the United States of America. Rand Paul is the only person who addressed many issues that many of his colleagues on both side of the political spectrum failed to address. Mr. Paul proposed the establishment of Economic Freedom Zones in which taxes are dramatically lowered on poor and struggling cities such as Detroit. Furthermore, he is the only Republican and Democrat candidate that has a solid plan for criminal justice reform. Rand Paul also addressed the National Security Agency scandal and he spoke on the senate floor for hours arguing against illegal and unconstitutional spying of Americans. Therefore; I’m here writing this letter in order to hoping you, with your big prestiges, would support him for the president election.
According to the article “No one has ever won the Iowa caucus vote without endorsing ethanol” Dwyer, Paula. Before Iowa, Cruz Opposed Ethanol, Omaha World Herald, January 12, 2016. Senator Cruz adamantly denies being against ethanol, but his political actions say otherwise. Over the past two years he has taken anti ethanol stances in the senate. When asked about the issue Senator Cruz continue to deny his history and blames democrats and lobbyist for spreading falsely labeling him as against ethanol.
There are many intelligent candidates that will be running for presidency in the next election. All of them come from a different back ground and have a different goal to achieve while they are in the president’s seat. However, I believe Ted Cruz would be a great candidate to the white house seat. Ted Cruz is a senator from Texas and his gifted talent in public speaking has given him a great opportunity to defeat his fellow competitors. He graduated at Houston's Second Baptist High School as a valedictorian of his class. He used his talent and further his education at Princeton University. He graduated in 1992; however, he is not yet
Upon serving as solicitor general, Cruz was essentially unheard-of at almost every level of government: local, state, or federal. Within a short amount of time, he emerged as a prominent political figure due to the Tea Party wave in 2010 (Parker and Haberman). On July 31, 2012, Cruz defeated Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the run-off election for the Republican Senate nomination with a vote of 57% to 43%. Four months later, he was elected Texas senator after defeating Democrat Paul Sadler 56% to 41% (“Ted Cruz Fast Facts”). Originally, many people considered him a long shot for senator; however, Cruz’s tenacity transformed him into a Tea Party favorite. His “ultraconservatism” earned him support of major Tea Party figures such as Sarah
After finishing sixth gaining only about 53,000 votes in the South Carolina primary, Ben Carson says he isn’t giving up nor is he quitting the race.
Two presidential hopefuls- Senator Ted Cruz and Real Estate mogul Donald Trump joined forces to headline a rally against the Iran nuclear deal outside the U.S. Capitol.
The article I read about Ted Cruz was particularly worrisome. I am a firm believer that who ever decides to run for president should be an american first and then be a religious person in their day to day life. I find it terrifying that some of Ted Cruz supporters are saying these cruel and horrendous things and he seems it be going right along with it. I have to admit that Ted Cruz would make a much better candidate than Donald Trump however, based on what I just read I am slowly beginning to doubt that. I will never understand what drives certain individuals to want to control individual who are just a bit different from the majority. I believe that regardless of what any one is and especially if they are a presidential candidate, should be a humanitarian and advocate fairness for all and go against those who want to hurt others.
In this documentary we learn about the different views politicians have when running for many offices. Particularly, in this film, we see the diverse opinions from Rick Green, a republican and Patrick Rose, a democrat. These two politicians are running to become the Texas state representative and do so by many ways of campaigning.