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…thing about Ted Cruz is that on paper, on public policy issues, he is almost indistinguishable from a traditional conservative senator. The most interesting thing about Ted Cruz is that…

Senator Ted Cruz picked up the lunch tab Monday at the Draft Sports Bar and Grill. During a business roundtable at the Concord, New Hampshire bar, the Texas senator and…

…One observation. I don’t know… this seems to have slipped through the cracks a little bit but Ted Cruz said something that I found rather astonishing. He said, you know,…

…“compassion, gentleness and mercy.” Even if one might disagree with Cruz’s free-market, limited-government policies, in every way he aims to expand opportunity for the less fortunate. Ted Cruz Is Also…

…to, commented just the other day that people like Cruz never become president. He said the hypothetical of a Cruz presidency was “interesting,” but Medved wasn’t convinced Cruz could be…

Matthew Anderson explains “why I cannot support Ted Cruz.” There have been other critiques, some aggressive, some concealed (but clever like a shiv), that aim to paint Cruz as an…

…secularism in the public sphere. That’s obviously a non-starter. But Cruz offers the wrong solution: Christian identity politics. Ted Cruz’s Christian Identity Politics When Cruz announced his candidacy, he made…

…know Ted Cruz has principles? Did you know it doesn’t matter whether Cruz has any actual legislative accomplishments, because “something—something—GOP establishment?” It comes down to this: Cruz is about as…

…you ask me to do it I will decline.” He repeated that line a few times. As Ben Domenech noted in these pages on Friday, if Cruz was going to…

…Cruz, it ends up looking like an embarrassing climb-down motivated by pure, grasping, pragmatic calculation. This is not exactly a surprise. Cruz is undoubtedly a very intelligent man, but the…

…it is dislike for vindicating Cruz’s approach to success, which is what would happen if Ted Cruz would become the nominee. Vindicating that model of success has much more far-reaching…

Who is Ted Cruz? It’s remarkable we’re still asking the question after months of intense media scrutiny. That in itself should tell you he’s rather an extraordinary politician, for good…

…order not of Ted Cruz the man, but Ted Cruz the model. Yes, Cruz himself is an existential threat to the established order in Washington, someone with the potential to…

…the Trump crew. A move by Ted Cruz to endorse Trump in Cleveland wouldn’t have satisfied anyone already opposed to Cruz, but it would’ve seemed like par for the course…

…his upset in 2012. Unfortunately for Cruz, in 2016 another candidate demonstrated he was even more of a populist and outsider. Fortunately for Cruz, he still had sufficient credibility as…

…The hecklers also shouted “[Cruz’s Senate opponent] Beto is way hotter than you, dude.” After the Cruzes exited through an side door, protesters can be heard shouting “Ted Cruz and…

…or primary. Ted Cruz has the best ad game of the bunch. Let’s look at three recent ads to see their effectiveness. ‘Invasion’ Last week, Cruz released a provocative ad…

There was little surprising about Ted Cruz’s event in Brooklyn last week—apart from, well, Ted Cruz, Republican candidate for president, being in Brooklyn. Cruz toured a matzah factory deep in…

…presidency. He cited Barry Goldwater, Robert Taft, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, etc. Perhaps the most useful comparison for Cruz, though, is Ted Kennedy. As should be expected in our instant-gratification…

…Cruz (@tedcruz) April 28, 2016 Then Cruz, his wife Heidi, and his little daughters Caroline and Catherine walked out from behind the curtains and up the steps to the low…

Welcome to Thunderdome, Ted Cruz! And wow, that’s a video straight out of the consultant minds of Veep. Maybe throw in a puppy? Seriously, though, if announcing via Twitter is…

…at Liberty University. It wasn’t likely to contain a lot of surprises; Ted Cruz is a known entity, unlike another first-term Senator who ran for president. But I wanted to…

Yesterday, in the wake of the horrific Islamic terrorist attack on Brussels, Ted Cruz said we must ignore political correctness and “empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslims neighborhoods…

…“source at United Airlines” who informed him that Cruz rearranged his travel plans to return to the United States earlier than expected. “Spoke to a source at United Airlines, Senator…

CLEVELAND – Ted Cruz knows exactly what he’s doing. On Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention, Cruz walked onto the stage in Cleveland to thunderous applause, smiled, waved, and…

…recipient. In this case, the check is a “simulated check” made out to the Cruz campaign suggesting that the amount indicated will match a similar amount sent in by the…

…on politically-charged moderation questions — has become an imperative.” 2023.03.16 Sen. Cruz Letter… by The Federalist 2023.03.16 Sen. Cruz Letter… by The Federalist 2023.03.16 Sen. Cruz Letter… by The Federalist…

…reading the flurry of misinterpreted responses to his quote-tweet. https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1361333184579960833 Newsweek ran a piece Monday morning showing its lack of clarity on the Cruz reference to Carano’s firing, appearing entirely…

…“Ted Cruz Is No Hero For Insulting A Room Of Persecuted Christians.” My friend and colleague David Harsanyi wrote “Ted Cruz Was Right (And The People Who Booed Him Were…

…went bankrupt,” Cruz said. In contrast, he noted, “Hillary and Bill Clinton have made hundreds of millions of dollars exploiting their government service.” Cruz didn’t seem at all worried about…

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) are clashing over how intelligence agencies should handle the phone data of private citizens. Over the weekend, Cruz retaliated against an…

Republicans across Texas breathed a deep sigh of relief Tuesday night when Sen. Ted Cruz eked out a victory over Beto O’Rourke, who ran the most competitive statewide campaign a…

…the above quotes appear to be a clear case of Ted Cruz vs. Ted Cruz on Snowden. It’s likely that Marco Rubio will bring up his flip flop at the…

…‘George W. Bush was selected not elected.’ Joe Biden: ‘Al Gore was elected president.’” In response, Navarro simply resorted to telling Cruz to “lower your voice because we are really…

…Donald Trump, while attacking Carson’s faith, boasted of his Presbyterianism. The day after Cruz’s speech, GOP voters in Iowa traded their church pews for voting sites. As Cruz predicted, the…

Is Ted Cruz sweetening his presidential pot with a pony? Ozy.com recently reported that the Texas senator turned presidential candidate has endorsed none other than My Little Pony’s Applejack of…