HUMBOLDT, Iowa (AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) relishes his role as Washington insurgent. But today’s political outsider built much of his professional career around being a GOP insider — thriving in powerful circles he now says he’d like to dismantle.
A Princeton graduate and Harvard-trained attorney, Cruz clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist at the Supreme Court — the very court he now accuses of “judicial tyranny.” While working as a Washington lawyer in 1998, Cruz represented one of his future Capitol Hill nemeses, John Boehner.
Despite his insider resume, Cruz won the 2012 Texas Senate race with the backing of conservative grass-roots activists who helped him tap into the emerging tea party wave. The experience showed him the power of being an unwavering, uncompromising conservative — and a political insurgent was born.
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