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In the Texas Senate primary elections of May 29, 2012, Cruz finished second to Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, but the nine-candidate Republican field forced a run-off. On July 31, Cruz defeated Dewhurst in a second round of voting. Cruz easily defeated [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] former State Representative Paul Sadler in the general election.
In the Texas Senate primary elections of May 29, 2012, Cruz finished second to Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, but the nine-candidate Republican field forced a run-off. On July 31, Cruz defeated Dewhurst in a second round of voting. Cruz easily defeated [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] former State Representative Paul Sadler in the general election.
Since the 2016 election, prominent [[Cruzites|supporters]] of his such as [[Steve Bannon]] have done all they could to "reconcile" what ''they'' believe to be Cruz's ideology with Trump's ideology, by engaging in highly unethical behavior behind the scenes, with the end goal to pervert [[conservatism]] into something accommodating to both [[nationalism]] and [[neoconservatism]].
==Early life==
==Early life==