At least 800 people were in a gym at the Patterson Community Center and another 200 listened from an adjoining gym.
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After watching the senator rally supporters in the parking lot of a fried chicken restaurant in Tupelo, Cruz supporter Mike Sauvageot said Bush and other more moderate candidates probably would have a harder time catching fire in his corner of the state.
Cruz told a crowd of 300 in Little Rock that Arkansas is in play.
“He really kind of won my heart when he did a filibuster in 2013, and people on both sides of the aisle excoriated him for doing it”, said Stockdale-Klaus, who recalled how the senator spent 21 hours and 19 minutes speaking out against Obamacare.
“What I consider is important for the conservative motion to return collectively and unite”. “He stands for all the values we respect…and the reason I believe [what he says] is he’s demonstrated it in Congress”.
Grant Sowell, chairman of the Tupelo Tea Party, said Cruz’s arrival was a dream come true.
“My pen has got an eraser”, said Cruz, who also contends that the U.S. Justice Department has been corrupt and partisan under Obama.
He also jabbed at fellow Republican senators and other Republicans on the proposed Iran nuclear deal pending before Congress, calling it “catastrophic”. All are passionate about Second Amendment rights. While not criticizing Trump’s comments, Cruz told reporters he was glad Trump has “managed to finally getting the media to talk about illegal immigration”. While he has remained rather quiet in the face of repeated jabs from Cruz and other conservatives, McConnell offered a parting shot to Cruz before the Senate recessed for the summer: “There will not be a government shutdown”. This is a window now where we can invest, and invest early in March primary states.
“He wouldn’t have to win, by the way, to have huge momentum”, Bailey said.
“The difference, frankly, between me and the very fine gentlemen on that debate stage is that I’ve walked the walk and have been a consistent conservative every day”, the Texas politician said. Cruz’s wife Heidi had signed it.
To say there was a sea of humanity gathered in a large field at Jackson Street and Sprayberry Road in Newnan on August 8 for an appearance by U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) would be an understatement.
“We have so many candidates for president”, said Tom Powers, expecting to meet more hopefuls in person just like an undecided Iowan might. Suddenly – and to the shock and horror of Republican Party dons from K Street to Wall Street – his take-no-prisoners, never-mind-maneuvers, telling-it-like-it-is message shot him to the top of the polls among 2016 contenders. “We need to seal the border”, said Cruz. And he traveled all the way from Washington, DC to let local party members know that the GOP candidate wants their votes come convention time.
Cruz isn’t writing off Iowa and New Hampshire, but his fallback strategy is centered here in the South, where the reception to his week-long, seven-state “Cruz Country” bus tour – marked by big, enthusiastic crowds and often rapturous appreciation of his scorched earth, anti-Washington rhetoric – explains why he sees a lane. ” has now become a staple of the Cruz stump speech”.
Cruz said he arrived late to the Murfreesboro rally because he had made a stop after a breakfast event in Chattanooga to visit a memorial to four Marines and a sailor who he said “were murdered by an act of radical Islamic terrorism”.
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People attending the dinner were served by about 25 youths from the Crawford County 4-H Club and the Believers Homeschool Association.
