| − | '''Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz''' (born December 22, 1970, in [[Calgary]], Canada) is the junior [[United States Senator]] from [[Texas]], having won the [[U.S. Senate]] seat vacated by [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]] in 2012. A [[Republican]], Cruz was a Solicitor General of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state before the [[U.S. Supreme Court]].<ref>Cruz has been listed as an author of more than eighty U.S. Supreme Court briefs and personally argued in nine before the U.S. Supreme Court, plus another 31 before other courts. He graduated ''[[magna cum laude]]'' from [[Harvard Law School]] and served as an editor of the ''[[Harvard Law Review]]''.</ref> A [[globalist]], Cruz supported the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), also known as "Fast Track").<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/11/11/senator-ted-cruz-did-support-tpa/</ref> | + | '''Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz''' (born December 22, 1970, in [[Calgary]], Canada) is the junior [[United States Senator]] from [[Texas]], having won the [[U.S. Senate]] seat vacated by [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]] in 2012. A [[Republican]], Cruz was a Solicitor General of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state before the [[U.S. Supreme Court]].<ref>Cruz has been listed as an author of more than eighty U.S. Supreme Court briefs and personally argued in nine before the U.S. Supreme Court, plus another 31 before other courts. He graduated ''[[magna cum laude]]'' from [[Harvard Law School]] and served as an editor of the ''[[Harvard Law Review]]''.</ref> A [[globalist]], Cruz supported the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), also known as "Fast Track").<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/11/11/senator-ted-cruz-did-support-tpa/</ref> Cruz attends the secret [[Koch brothers]]'s meetings and advances their agenda without admitting it.<ref>http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/24/koch-brothers-pence-trump-239928</ref> |
| | Senator Cruz is the first candidate to run for president in 2020, announcing the forming of multiple organizations for such purpose even prior to the official nomination by the Republican Party of [[Donald Trump]] in the summer of 2016. Cruz thinks this is 1976 (it isn't), and that Cruz is [[Ronald Reagan]] (Cruz isn't).<ref>Reagan lost the Republican nomination for president in 1976, but then won the nomination and the presidency in 1980.</ref> By most accounts Cruz ended his national political career by selfishly refusing during his televised address at the Republican 2016 convention to endorse [[Donald Trump]], and Cruz was loudly booed by the audience for it.<ref>[http://www.conservativehq.com/node/23643 Analysis by Richard Viguerie, a former Cruz supporter]</ref> Eventually, Cruz did endorse Trump,<ref>http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Ted-Cruz-Endorses-Donald-Trump/2016/09/23/id/749888 Retrieved September 24, 2016</ref> but not before becoming the recipient of anger and disdain from many for his hesitation. | | Senator Cruz is the first candidate to run for president in 2020, announcing the forming of multiple organizations for such purpose even prior to the official nomination by the Republican Party of [[Donald Trump]] in the summer of 2016. Cruz thinks this is 1976 (it isn't), and that Cruz is [[Ronald Reagan]] (Cruz isn't).<ref>Reagan lost the Republican nomination for president in 1976, but then won the nomination and the presidency in 1980.</ref> By most accounts Cruz ended his national political career by selfishly refusing during his televised address at the Republican 2016 convention to endorse [[Donald Trump]], and Cruz was loudly booed by the audience for it.<ref>[http://www.conservativehq.com/node/23643 Analysis by Richard Viguerie, a former Cruz supporter]</ref> Eventually, Cruz did endorse Trump,<ref>http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Ted-Cruz-Endorses-Donald-Trump/2016/09/23/id/749888 Retrieved September 24, 2016</ref> but not before becoming the recipient of anger and disdain from many for his hesitation. |