Cruz received more than 175,000 donations, and the average contribution was $81. Donors from every state in the nation and five territories backed him, and he has donors in 48 percent of all postal ZIP codes in America. Outside groups backing Cruz have also raised an addition $38 million.
Breitbart News previously reported that Rubio’s campaign had raised more than $12 million. The final figures, as reported by Politico, are $12,942,732.44 raised (including $3.2 million transferred over from Rubio’s Senate campaign account) and $3,083,666.95 spent. This resulted in a total $9,859,065.49 cash on hand and a burn rate of 18.37 percent.
The Senate voted to end debate on the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA) Wednesday, 86-12, allowing for a final vote on Thursday on the measure that is that chamber’s version of the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind law.
Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz repeated references he heard to the Iran nuclear deal as the “the jihadist stimulus deal” and said “If this deal goes through, the Obama administration will become the leading financier of terrorism against America
The New York Times acknowledged on Wednesday that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s book, A Time For Truth, belongs on its best-seller list and gave it a no. 7 ranking in nonfiction, after snubbing it and accusing the Cruz campaign of making “strategic bulk purchases.”
On Tuesday, the pro-life Center for Medical Progress released an undercover video with Dr. Deborah Nucatola, the Planned Parenthood senior director of medical research. In the video, Nucatola calmly explains while chomping on a salad how Planned Parenthood sells the body parts of aborted babies.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Republican Study Committee Chairman Bill Flores (R-TX), Sen Mike Lee (R-UT), House Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and other conservatives pushed back against calls to bring the export-import bank — whose charter expired at the end of June — back to life.
Cruz, the first Republican to declare a run for the presidency, will step onto Trump’s territory in Manhattan and is visiting Trump, not the other way around. As the Washington Post notes, the two candidates are on friendly terms and both take a strong, popular stand against mass illegal immigration.
Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz argued “the Democratic Party supports illegal immigration” on Tuesday’s “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel. Cruz said that sanctuary cities were a “persistent problem” where “you’ve got, often Democratic, mayors
This year, however, Texas will join eleven other states on a “Super Tuesday” primary on March 1. With fifteen-and-counting Republicans in the race, the chances that the field would significantly narrow with just the first four states are very low. “Texas is the reddest of the red states, and unfortunately, in previous cycles our primary hasn’t mattered much,” Texas GOP chairman Tom Mechler told the Morning News, sharing his satisfaction that in 2016, Texas Republicans would “have a say in who is the next Republican nominee for president.”
The presidential campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is reporting raising more than $12 million through the end of June, slightly more than the $11.4 million reported by the campaign of Rubio’s fellow Floridian, former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL).
In a press statement released on Friday, the Cruz campaign noted that “this week’s #1 and #2 books on Bookscan are also #1 and #2 on the NYT list. But the #3 book, Cruz’s A Time for Truth, has been omitted altogether from the top twenty spots on the New York Times list.”
“Cruz’s average tallies $10 billion more in spending cuts than his Republican colleagues. For every dollar of new spending, Cruz’s agenda would cut $8.47 billion in spending,” the press release states.
An immigration advocacy group, The Coalition for Humane Immigrants Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), has planned to protest 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump outside of the Luxe Hotel in Brentwood on Friday, where he will be addressing a group of powerful Hollywood Republicans known as “Friends of Abe” (FOA).
A group of California’s top Democratic lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill targeting 2016 presidential candidates Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) after Trump made controversial comments about illegal immigrants from Mexico, and Cruz defended him.
The New York Times will not include Ted Cruz’s new biography on its upcoming bestsellers list, despite the fact that the book has sold more copies in its first week than all but two of the Times’ bestselling titles.
Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said many Republican candidates are attacking Donald Trump “Because they haven’t been speaking out on the need to secure the border” on Thursday’s broadcast of “The Intelligence Report with Trish Regan” on
Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz declared “I am proud to defend Donald Trump” and promoted his “legislation to increase the number of H-1B visas if there are people who are educated and talented and creating jobs” on
Vox has a piece on Hillary Clinton’s unique relationship with the press which sounds a lot like special pleading in favor of a candidate who, by the author’s own admission, has a long history of lying.
MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews said that Ted Cruz fears Donald Trump in a similar fashion to how people feared Uday and Qusay on Monday. After playing a clip of Cru saying he wouldn’t attack Trump, the Huffington Post’s Howard
New Jersey Governor and GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie said that he doesn’t “need to be lectured by Ted Cruz” on “Republican-on-Republican violence” on Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” Christie re-iterated that he thought Trump’s comments were “wrong,”
It was an important moment in 2008 when a black man was elected president of the United States. It’s time to make history in 2016. We must elect the first Generation X president.
Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign has raised more than $14 million since the Texas senator launched his bid for the Republican presidential nomination just over three months ago, his campaign said Sunday.
Sunday on “Meet the Press,” Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Donald Trumps comments about Mexico sending it’s criminals to the Untied States were “bold” and “brash,” but put a needed focus on the many Republicans who support the
Pro-amnesty and anti-amnesty activists held separate demonstrations on Wednesday commemorating the one -year anniversary of protests that blocked buses of illegal immigrants from overcrowded Texas detention facilities from arriving at the Murrieta, California Border Patrol station. Many amnesty advocates singled out Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate and business tycoon, for criticism, along with anti-amnesty conservative author Ann Coulter.
