Donna Barrett (right) welcomes Senator Cruz from Texas (left). “This is not a debate“.
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While the 2016 presidential race is full steam ahead in Iowa and New Hampshire, one GOP frontrunner decided to make a stop in Oklahoma.
Cruz will be joined by Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Tulsa, for the “Boots and BBQ Lunch” which is scheduled for noon Thursday at the COHBA Events Center, 430 E Britton Road. Cruz’s visit here Sunday was his second recent chance to woo Alabama voters – he called into a group of Republican activists in Coosa County, a few weeks ago – and he’ll return for a third when he headlines the Lincoln-Reagan dinner in Tuscaloosa in just two weeks.
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As he does regularly, Cruz began his comments telling the audience of his plans on his first day in office.
After seeing him in person, many people at the rally said Cruz has their vote.
“I would … note that an bad lot of Republicans, including other Republican candidates, have gone out of their way to smack Donald Trump with a stick”, Cruz said.
Rutherford County Republican Party Chairwoman Donna Barrett was pleased with the turnout. “He stands for all the values we respect…and the reason I believe [what he says] is he’s demonstrated it in Congress”.
Before leaving for the August recess, Cruz and other social conservatives threw down the gauntlet for Republican leaders, urging a government shutdown for over federal funding for Planned Parenthood. “The notion that we’re all toting our sheet and white top hat and stuff is so wrong, and I’m hoping that’s what people will see”.
That “national campaign” suggests that Cruz would remain in the GOP primary until late into the spring – and possibly even the early summer. “I am going to repeal every word of Obamacare”. Who has stood up to defend religious liberty?
“In 2012, in the state of Texas, I earned 40 percent of the Hispanic vote, statewide”.
Sanders supporter Matthew Hine said, “We invite the press to contrast Ted Cruz’s extreme Tea Party positions with an approach supported by the majority of voters”.
“The simple reality is there’s nothing the media likes to talk about more than the politics of personality, of one Republican throwing rocks at another“. It ties the Hispanic community together, but it ties every American together. “We’ve got to come together”. “Somebody that has a passion for this passion because if they have a passion for it they’re going to do their best to fight for it”, said Bennett.
Spectators across the board want to see what Cruz has to offer.
Spring Hill resident Chris Pixley was one of those parents, with all of his children fanned out below him. “You see the reporter, is walking away”. “We need to stop illegal immigration. Guam is treated as well as the four other territories by the Republican party they’re treated as states so they matter Guam matters immensely this time around”, said Lennox. With as many as 17 candidates potentially dividing up those votes, the eight-state threshold may be harder to come by.
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Wiley, now a semi-retired minister in Lebanon, just happened to be in the crowd and said afterward he was proud to play a role in the Cruz family’s life, saying he was merely “delivering the mail” when he spoke with the elder Cruz in a Houston, Texas home one night in the 1970s.
