The president of the Family Research Council, one of the most prominent social conservative organizations, said on Friday that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is a de facto Republican leader.
In an interview with CNN’s Peter Hamby at Friday’s Value Voters Summit in Washington, D.C. which his organization sponsors, Perkins said Cruz has “become a de facto leader of the Republican Party” because “he is what people are looking for.” Perkins said Cruz is “somebody who will stand up and say, ‘This is what I stand for, this is what I believe.'”
After saying he “would venture to say that he is going to get a rock star reception here,” Perkins said what “he is doing is he is filling a vacuum.” He then said Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), the architect of the defunding Obamacare strategy, was another conservative leading the charge as well and filling the current void within the Republican Party:
There has been a complete breakdown between the formal GOP leadership and the outside conservative groups. There is even a breakdown between the GOP leadership and the conservatives on the inside. So you have Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and others who are filling that void.
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