Rick Perry, the former Texas governor and two-time presidential hopeful, has endorsed Ted Cruz for his bid for the White House.
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Perry told the website Politico that he spent a day with Cruz in December and found him to be a good listener. Observers say Perry still is well-liked in Iowa but question his ability to impact the race elsewhere.
Though lagging behind Trump nationally, Cruz is locked in a cutthroat race with Trump in Iowa as the broader Republican Party slowly comes around to the likelihood that one of the two could be their nominee. And he nearly never speaks Spanish on the trail, unlike the other Cuban-American candidate, Marco Rubio.
Sen. Ted Cruz has landed a pretty major endorsement.
According to the Real Clear Politics national polling average, Trump is leading the Republican pack with 34.6 percent support while Cruz is in second with 18.8 percent.
Cruz said he is glad Perry is on board. Beck warned a Cruz crowd that if Trump wins the nomination, Democrats would “pick his bones apart and destroy him”.
After the interview with Brody, Cruz spoke to a pastors’ event sponsored by right-wing extremist David Lane, where he told attendees that “the federal government daily wages a war on life, on marriage, on religious liberty, on the Judeo-Christian values that built this country”.
Between the phone calls and hit pieces that are in my daily mail box, I’m sure my fellow Iowans are just as ready as I am for the Iowa caucus to be over. And as of the moment, Cruz believes that this attack is a desperate move by Trump to recover support from the Republicans after his different controversies.
By making this appeal, Cruz figures he can get three of the four wings of the Republican party-tea partiers, evangelicals, and libertarians-and not have to worry about the fourth, the moderate establishment. In the court proceedings, the lawyer is asking the Supreme Court to decide whether Cruz would be violating the “natural born” requirement of a president if he ever wins in the upcoming election.
He said the race has come down to Cruz and Trump, and he’s definitely siding with Cruz.
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Perry’s 2016 effort was always dogged by his “oops” moment in 2012 – a nagging perception that turned out to be unshakeable, no matter how much he had boned up in the intervening years. Ted Cruz is getting some love from his home state of Texas. “Listen”, he continued, “if you think things in Washington are doing great and we need to keep heading in the same basic direction-just kind of fiddle around the edges-then I ain’t your guy”.
