Cruz is casting himself as the grown-up, conservative alternative to outsiders Donald Trump and Ben Carson. Ted Cruz’s tell-it-like-it-is, in-your-face style is now raising his stock.
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But racing down an Iowa highway on a snowy weekend morning, a solemn Cruz suggested a few of his Republican rivals for president have amped up their rhetoric too much especially on policy toward people who are in the US illegally.Tone matters, Cruz, the son of a Cuban immigrant, told The Associated Press in an interview between campaign stops. Rand Paul, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Pennsylvania Sen.
Six GOP presidential candidates would beat Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in a head-to-head matchup, according to a Fox News poll released Sunday. The only other candidate who comes in close in the poll is Marco Rubio, showing 11 percent support.
Christian conservative voters wield influence in the Iowa caucuses because they tend to be organized and motivated.
Iowa Democratic Party chairwoman Andy McGuire issued a statement expressing her disappointment that Republican voters in Iowa would not have an opportunity to see their candidates talk about issues important to minority communities.
Cruz’s biggest challenge in Iowa, however, ranges beyond this state’s borders. After a forum in Des Moines went way over its scheduled length – stretching on for more than three hours as several inches of snow blanketed the city – a still-lively Cruz was holding court in his reception room, taking another half hour of questions from a crowd spilling out into the hallways. I remember having him on my show in the early day’s of his Senate campaign when no one gave him a chance.
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After bemoaning his secondhand embarrassment for the UT football team at their 24-0 loss to Iowa State last month, Cruz says in the video: “I think they cancelled their football program and brought in a girls junior high team instead”. Slowly, Cruz began to rise in Texas.
