Conservative Party Officially Endorses Ted Cruz For President

After careful consideration and serious reflection, the Conservative Party is pleased to announce it officially endorses Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) for President of these United States.Ted Cruz is a solid conservative patriot who has a keen understanding of what is needed to save America from the liberal-induced moral and social decline and the duplicity of a cowardly, hidebound Republican Party establishment that refuses to stop it.
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How Ted Cruz Became Ted Cruz

In 2008, in the high-profile Supreme Court gun-rights case called District of Columbia v. Heller, a brief was filed from the eighth floor of the Price Daniel Sr. State Office Building in Austin, Texas, specifically from the corner office of the man who was then the state’s solicitor general, Ted Cruz.

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Fact Checking for Partisan Fun and Profit

Who will fact check the fact checkers?  How about you and me? Take a PolitiFact story last week out of Iowa, where Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is the current Republican front-runner as the state's Feb. 1 presidential caucus approaches. Earlier this month, Sen. Cruz told a Cedar Rapids crowd, "The Democrats in the Senate last year introduced a constitutional amendment to repeal the free speech protections of the First Amendment."

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Terrific Night for Cruz

Ted Cruz went a long way Wednesday night in making the case for himself as the conservative consensus candidate. It didn't hurt that he used his first extended answer in the debate to excoriate the journalists asking the questions. --The righteous rant got one of the loudest rounds of applause of the night from the crowd at the University of Colorado. It was a smart move for Cruz to take time to go after the media since the CNBC moderators were, indeed, asking questions right out of the Hillary Clinton opposition book.

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Glenn Beck Describes the Unique and Impressive Skill Ted Cruz Possesses, but Is ‘Not Comfortable Talking About’

Glenn Beck said Wednesday he believes 2016 hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) self-described “audiographic memory” would be a “massive plus” in a president. --Beck said Cruz remembers anything as long as it’s been said to him out loud because it “imprints on him an audio file.”

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Carly Fiorina Fades, As Ted Cruz Climbs In The Chase

Carly Fiorina couldn't capitalize on her scrappy second debate performance while Sen. Ted Cruz looks to be assembling an organization for the long haul. --That's why they are trading places in the latest rankings of The Chase – U.S. News' snapshot of the 2016 presidential contenders and their shot at their party's nominations.

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Cruz: America Only 1 Liberal Justice Away From Gun Confiscation

The amount of power that the Supreme Court was wielded during the Obama years has been disconcerting to say the least. --Not many presidential candidates are focusing on the fact that the Supreme Court has taken a noticeable turn to the left and is slowly being filled with judges that hold some very radical views along with a general disdain for the rule of law. --Senator Ted Cruz is well aware of this shift and has been hammering the message home on the campaign trail.

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How Cruz Won the NH Conservative Caucus Vote

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was the undisputed winner of the first ever caucus of New Hampshire conservatives to rally behind a candidate in advance of the state's first-in-the-nation presidential primary in February. The 603 Alliance, a grassroots organization of New Hampshire conservatives, has endorsed Cruz.  Earlier this year the alliance began organizing the caucus as a means to prevent the conservative vote from getting split among so many candidates and thus handing the primary to an establishment candidate like Jeb Bush.

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Ted Cruz is wooing voters who favored rival Rand Paul's father, and it's working

When Rand Paul entered the GOP presidential race, he sought to stitch together a distinct coalition: his father's fiercely loyal libertarian supporters, millennials, and others new to Republican politics whom he hoped to draw with his provocative stances on privacy and marijuana laws.Six months later, none of that is working. Paul is a low single-digit blip in the polls. He barely meets the threshold to participate in the next debate later this month. Influential conservatives are urging him to bail out.

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Ted Cruz taps former Pilgrim’s Pride president to lead campaign faith outreach

Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign on Thursday named, Lindy M. “Buddy” Pilgrim, the former president of poultry giant Pilgrim’s Pride, to lead its faith outreach initiative. --Pilgrim, an ordained minister, will serve as National Director of the Faith and Religious Liberties Coalition. Along with leading the multi-billion dollar poultry company from 1993 to 1998, Pilgrim was a top bundler for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s 2008 presidential campaign, and has a long track record in conservative politics.

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Cruz gains support by opposing own party

Since arriving in the Senate, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has sparred not only with Democrats, but members of his own party.During a fiery floor speech earlier this month, he criticized Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker John Boehner for helping Democrats more than their fellow Republicans. Cruz called it a “surrender” to President Obama.

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Ted Cruz raises $12 million over the summer

Ted Cruz raised around $12 million for his presidential campaign during the third quarter, two sources with knowledge of the Texas senator's fundraising told CNN Thursday. --That figure represents a strong haul that will help fuel Cruz's operation at a critical juncture. --His cash flow over the last three months brings his total fundraising so far to $26 million. Cruz raised $10 million in the previous quarter, and $4 million in his first quarter as a candidate. -

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Ted Cruz Amasses Ground Game That Covers Every County in Four States

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas got an early start to the 2016 presidential campaign in March by being the first of what would become a vast field to announce his candidacy. Now, he has turned that starting advantage into a sprawling ground game. --For every county in the first four voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, the Cruz campaign has locked down county chairs in charge of not just lending their names to the campaign, but of spearheading outreach and organizing efforts.

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Ted Cruz sees slow and steady path to 2016 presidential victory

Ted Cruz is playing a slow and steady campaign, but for the firebrand Texas senator, that doesn’t translate into being quiet. --In the past week alone, he has stolen supporters from fellow Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul (Ky.), won the rousing support of evangelicals and had to be shut down by Senate leaders for trying to complicate efforts on a short-term funding extension with a protest vote against Planned Parenthood funding.

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One Fact Everyone Has Forgotten About Ted Cruz Might Be His Key To The White House

Many may not realize that before Ted Cruz was a U.S. Senator he had a lengthy career in various positions, one of which makes him particularly well suited to roll back the explosion of regulations under the Obama administration. --Following Cruz’s graduation from Harvard Law School in 1995, stints as a clerk for Chief Justice William Rehnquist and in the practice of private law, the Texan ultimately ended up serving in George W. Bush administration in the early part of the last decade.

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Cruz: Obama trying to 'tear us apart' with comments on Oregon shooting

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is criticizing President Obama for his comments about a mass shooting at a community college in Oregon that left 9 dead. “Unfortunately that is the approach with President Obama on every issue, is that he seeks to tear us apart, he seeks to politicize it and it’s worth remembering he is ideological and he’s a radical,” Cruz said on "The Mark Levin Show," as first reported by Buzzfeed News.

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Will Voters Buy Donald Trump’s New Attack on Marco Rubio’s Voting Record?

Among the many turbulent moments that Donald Trump contributed to the much-vaunted Republican-primary debate on September 16, one in particular stood out. “I,” Trump griped after Marco Rubio delivered a particularly withering put-down, “am not sitting in the United States Senate with, by the way, the worst voting record there is today . . . I’m a businessman. I am doing business transactions.” --At the time, Trump intended this line as a panicked explanation for his ignorance of foreign affairs. But, in the weeks that have followed, he has begun to use it as a cudgel.

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Ted Cruz snags former Ron Paul supporters

Ted Cruz is siphoning off Rand Paul supporters. For months, the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) has quietly been courting libertarian-leaning supporters ... --On Tuesday, Cruz released a video showing eight former Ron Paul liberty movement supporters -- a number of them from Iowa -- who are now backing Cruz. The campaign announced that former Congressman Bob Barr will chair a Liberty Leaders for Cruz" coalition comprised of libertarian-leaning Republicans.

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Cruz received well at Value Voters Summit

Debbie Houlberg, 53, snagged a selfie with Sen. Ted Cruz after his Value Voters Summit speech. It was her first up close experience with her favorite GOP candidate. --“He can get up and talk from his heart, without reading from a teleprompter. He is not just acting. It is really what he feels,” said Houlberg. “He knows his stuff and has an inner conviction of the truth.”
Cruz’s call for a flat tax and abolishing the IRS resonated with Houlberg, an interior designer from Atlanta.

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Ted Cruz told a 3-year-old her world is on fire. Her mom joined his campaign.

In March, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) told a 3-year-old girl that her world was on fire, and the Internet went nuts. Now the girl's mom has joined Cruz's campaign. --Cruz, speaking in Barrington, N.H., said President Obama and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's foreign policy had set the world on fire. --"The world is on fire?" then-3-year-old Julia Trant immediately asked.

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