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In the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has won more states than anyone other than Donald Trump and runs second in delegates won. But is that enough to persuade the anti-Trump forces that the rebellious outsider is now their best hope of blocking the New York billionaire? Cruz told supporters at his post-election rally Tuesday night in Houston that only he and Trump have a viable strategy to assemble the delegates needed to capture the nomination. That assertion is based on the campaign’s internal data analysis of the contests ahead, Cruz’s confidence in the...

GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz is securing a majority of the delegates from county Republican parties in Wyoming, with over half of the results in Saturday afternoon. Republicans in Sheridan, Sweetwater, Laramie, Hot Springs, Converse and Uinta counties selected delegates who are pledging to support the U.S. senator from Texas in the Republican National Convention in July. In Albany County, Republicans selected a delegate who will support Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida. The delegate from Teton County will support businessman Donald Trump. Republican parties in all 23 counties are meeting Saturday to select delegates or alternates to the...

Ted Cruz's presidential bid is in turmoil after repeated allegations of unsavory campaign tactics by his Republican rivals, leading some key supporters to call for a shake-up in the candidate's message and strategy a week ahead of the crucial Super Tuesday primaries. Aides and allies of the insurgent senator from Texas acknowledged in interviews this week that the campaign has been damaged by attacks on Cruz's integrity from Donald Trump and Marco Rubio. They have pointed to a series of questionable tactics by the Cruz camp, including calls to voters suggesting that candidate Ben Carson was dropping out and the...

Reading Senator Ted Cruz's high school yearbook page, which included the Republican presidential candidate's future aspirations, is nothing short of prophetic. high school student Ted Cruz wanted to run for President pic.twitter.com/Y8ZmgIj4jM - Robert Caruso (@robertcaruso) January 25, 2016 As a senior in high school, Cruz aspired to study at Princeton University, attend Harvard law school, achieve success as a lawyer, hold public office, and eventually run for President of the United States-and win: Upon graduation Ted hopes to attend Princeton University and major in Political Science and Economics. From there he wants to attend law school (possibly Harvard) and achieve a...

Ted Cruz said during an appearance in Iowa on Monday that there’s a difference between him and Donald Trump on immigration. The Texas senator, who is leading the field of Republican presidential candidates in Iowa according to the latest polls, was asked by a man in the state if, like Trump, he believed that all undocumented immigrants should be deported. Cruz replied, “Absolutely yes.” “And in fact, look, there’s a difference,” said Cruz. “He’s advocated allowing folks to come back in and become citizens. I oppose that.” Cruz is on a six-day trip around the state to shore up support...

Oh, I could hear the balloon deflating all the way from the Politico headquarters.Phllloooooooopppphhtt.Last week, on the day of the highly-watched GOP presidential debate, someone gave Politico’s Mike Allen an enticing piece of catnip to put in his insidery morning email. Secret audio tape would soon be published on a conservative news site supposedly showing that Ted Cruz talks much differently to NYC moderates than Iowa evangelicals. “These leaks are designed to undermine Cruz’s authenticity,” Allen wrote.The prospect of a juicy secret recording flew around the Internet. People reported on the prospect of the audio tape, before ever hearing a...

In an exclusive interview with The Brody File, Ted Cruz says he has a plan to begin highlighting, “policy differences” between him and Donald Trump. “There are plenty of policy differences and there may well come a time when we start highlighting those more,” Cruz tells The Brody File. “In a political campaign there are seasons and phases to it…as the race narrows down, as people start making choices, we may see some more policy contrasts.” Cruz has been climbing in the polls and has the money to make a serious run at the nomination. He’s been courting evangelical voters...

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said Donald Trump's campaign has been "immensely beneficial" to his own campaign but added that his supporters will soon turn to him as they become "more educated." "I think Donald's campaign has been immensely beneficial for our campaign and the reason is, he's framed the central issue of the Republican primary as, who will stand up to Washington," [sic] Trump told "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd. "Well, the natural follow up if that's the question is, who has actually stood up to Washington?" [sic] Trump continued, adding that he's the only one with the...

If you had a child/son/daughter, would you like to see him or her go into politics as a life’s work? That’s how Gallup phrased its questions to a random sample of 2,048 adults, 18 and older, living in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The telephone survey on June 20-24 found that by a 2-to-1 margin—64 percent to 31 percent—the answer was no, Americans would not like their child to go in to politics as a career. … Gallup found that non-whites were much more likely than whites to want a political career for their offspring. Democrats tended...

President Barack Obama has endorsed Michigan Rep. John Conyers in his bid for a twenty-fifth term. "Congressman John Conyers, Jr. is a tireless champion for all of South Eastern Michigan's working families, especially the many struggling to get by," Obama said in a statement. "That is why we need his dedicated efforts back in Congress to continue the fight with me to bring real jobs to the greater Metro Detroit area and our nation. I need you to cast your vote for Congressman John Conyers, Jr. in the August Democratic Congressional Primary." Conyers, the longest-serving black House member, has drawn...

By the time they're done with him, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich will look like a leading Democratic spokesman as the party moves quickly to harness his attacks on Republican plans to change Medicare. According to party sources, they plan to use Gingrich's assault on House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's plan in a bid to knock down every Republican who voted for it. "By calling Paul Ryan's budget 'radical' and 'right-wing social engineering,' Newt merely echoed criticisms millions of Americans across the political spectrum have voiced at house Republicans' budget for weeks now," says Ryan Rudominer, a Democratic consultant...

A Republican senator from Utah is set to lose the party's nomination on Saturday and become a high-profile casualty of the Tea Party movement. After 18 years representing the western state, Bob Bennett, 76, faces the wrath of party activists who think he has drifted too far to the middle ground and become too identified with broken central government. He will be opposed at caucuses by eight opponents all to his Right politically who have all sought the endorsement of the state's active Tea Party groups. Under Utah's quirky rules, without 40 per cent of the vote at Saturday's party...

How many times have we heard well-intentioned Americans, with much justification, saying they didn't want a Washington "insider" running things during presidential campaigns? Carter, Reagan, Clinton (barf!), and Dubya were all elected in part because of that sentiment alone. Now comes John Kerry, an ultimate Washington insider who has done NOTHING in two decades as a United Sates senator to make any significant headway or noticeably improve anyone's life. How many significant bills bear his name or influence? Yep, that's what I thought. So he's been a real "leader" in Washington...right, and Michael Moore should be president in 2008! This...

Daley is king of Chicago BY LEE ENOKIAN Richard M. Daley has assumed the hereditary mantle of mayor for life to become the unquestioned ruler of the Chicago Metropolitan area. He will reside on the mayoral throne for a long time to come since nobody has the political juice to challenge his regal claims. Citizens could appeal to the Cook County government if it wasn't ruled by an allied monarch, John Stroger, oh and John Daley, the mayor's brother. Daley's hold on the city remains stable despite the various scandals associated with his administration. His Teflon skin continues to slough...

Hiram Johnson confronted the same problem; he was also a political maverick," McClintock said. "He realized he had to take his case directly to the people, and he did." If state lawmakers won't curb their spending, McClintock says he'll take his case for reform directly to the people too. "Ultimately, the governor, whoever he is, will have to rally the people for the fundamental reforms needed to change our state," he said. "The Constitution gives the people the ultimate authority."