Posted on 03/22/2015 10:13:50 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
(CNN)Ted Cruz is first out the gate.
The first-term senator from Texas announced early Monday he is running for president.
Cruz announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in a 30-second video message in a tweet shortly after midnight Monday. Later in the day, he will appear at Virginia's Liberty University, the largest Christian university in the world, where he will make his in-person declaration.
"I'm running for President and I hope to earn your support!" Cruz said in his tweet.
Cruz, 44, will be the first candidate to formally throw his hat in the ring for what's expected to be a crowded GOP primary, with more than a dozen high-profile Republicans expressing serious interest in a White House run.
"It's a time for truth, a time to rise to the challenge just as Americans have always done," Cruz says over clips of American landscapes and people. "It's going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again. And I'm ready to stand with you to lead the fight."
The Houston Chronicle first reported that Cruz would declare his candidacy on Monday, skipping the step of forming an exploratory committee, according to advisers with direct knowledge of his plans.
Cruz, armed with his trademark ostrich boots and impressive oratory skills, has quickly made a name for himself in the past two years since he started in the Senate, solidifying his brand as a conservative firebrand willing to take on establishment Republicans in Washington.
A constant and vocal critic of the Obama administration, he's perhaps best known for his stalwart fight against Obamacare in 2013, which led to a tense standoff between Democrats
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Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt's Generals: 'How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?'Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt's military -- even as Cairo's security forces massacre anti-government activists. [by "anti-government activists" is meant church-burning Christian-murdering jihadists][Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat]
Significant artistry school drawings likely from his kids..family shots and a bust of Martin Luther King
The Obvious
These are in a work room side office.....where a man can be among his favorite things.
GO TED!!!
Social conservative here. Cruz has always been in my top tier. Glad that he’s running. Will be watching with hope.
Debbie Wasserman will complain and bitch that Cruz is too young at the age of 34 to run and that being he is a latino,he just isn’t smart enough to be President.
GO CRUZ!
FINALLY ! someone amazing on our side runs!
Why does he have a Menorah? Interesting choice. I wonder if it has always been there.
Will it be live?
Excellent news.
Will he get Secret Service protection or does that have to wait until the nomination?
Likewise. I would be interesting to know how much money comes in today.
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“Will be? Is.”
Not yet.. Today after his announcement he will be. But I get what you are saying.
On another note, I like the term, “First term Senator,” like they are trying to make his experience an issue with the GOPe candidates.
The MSM are slimebags.
“Cruz and Walker are my top two choices. Theyd make one hell of a great team.”
I am good with that, either way.16 years of these two is just what the country will need to get back to greatness.
Did they use that term when King Barry announced?
Homeland Security gets to make the decision. But he can get it now...they are eligible during primary season.
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