Tag: Ted Cruz

Last night, Breitbart News contributors Brandon Darby and Lee Stranahan gave a presentation on their new film, “Occupy Unmasked,” which is presented by Andrew Breitbart and directed by Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon. They described how the film

Ted Cruz kicked off the Red State Gathering 2012 conference in Jacksonville, Florida by telling the fired up crowd that he’s seeing an ‘awakening’ in the American people who are fed up with liberal policy and establishment politicians on both

Texas Tea Party candidate Ted Cruz’s victory over Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in Tuesday’s Texas Republican primary runoff was arguably the most significant victory for the Tea Party movement to date.  And Cruz’s victory continued former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s

When they ask when the walls began to crumble for the GOP establishment, politicos will point to this race. Ted Cruz, the underfunded, under-famed grassroots conservative took on the abundantly funded, well-known Texas Lieutenant Governor and won.  The Associated Press

A new poll released on Sunday night showed Tea Party Texas Senate candidate Ted Cruz has widened his lead over Lieutenant Gov. David Dewhurst. Cruz, powered by the Tea Party to what is looking like a “Texas-sized blowout,” now leads

The death of the “tea party” has been reported breathlessly for over a year. With the election of a GOP House, the large rallies and protests receded from the public square and the number of people attending local tea party

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will star in a new television ad for Missouri Senate candidate Sarah Steelman, Breitbart News has learned. The ad will begin to run statewide on Monday and can be seen below.  In the ad, which

A new poll from Public Policy Polling, a liberal-leaning outfit, finds that Tea Party Texas Senate candidate Ted Cruz has 52-42 lead over the establishment Lieutenant Gov. David Dewhurst heading into Tuesday’s Texas Republican Senate primary runoff. Former Alaska Gov.

This weekend, the Ending Spending Action Fund, the Super PAC formed in 2010 by Brian Baker and Joe Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade, will place a six-figure targeted radio buy in Texas on behalf of Cruz, boosting his media

This coming Tuesday will mark the culmination of one of the most watched, most expensive, and most important primary elections for U.S. Senate in recent memory. On July 31st, Republican voters in Texas will go to the polls to choose

Rumors of the Tea Party’s demise have been greatly exaggerated, as Mark Twain might say. Following massive victories across the country, which netted 63 House pickups and seven new Republican senators last cycle, this year alone, the Tea Party has

Momentum is building for former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz to pull the biggest upset in the 2012 election cycle by defeating establishment candidate Lt. Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican U.S. Senate primary in Tuesday’s July 31 runoff. When

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will campaign in Texas at a get-out-the-vote rally for Ted Cruz on Friday along with other prominent Tea Party leaders like Jim DeMint.  Palin will lead a cadre of conservatives, including Texas and National Tea Party

Former state Solicitor General Ted Cruz has come from behind to take a lead over Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican runoff primary for U.S. Senate in Texas. Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling, a left-wing pollster, called the

While the political world watches conservative change agent Ted Cruz and establishment moderate David Dewhurst slug it out in the July 31st U.S. Senate run-off election in Texas, there is another run-off right around the corner where similar dynamics are

Texas Republican Senate candidate Ted Cruz leads David Dewhurst in two new polls released by independent polling organizations on Thursday. Cruz, in both polls, was powered by his overwhelming support among the conservative Tea Party voters who dominate low-turnout GOP

Texas Lieutenant Gov. David Dewhurst said that he had not supported a guest worker program during his debate with Tea Party candidate Ted Cruz last month.  After Dewhurst was called out for misleading voters on this issue, a 2007 speech available on

When the Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate and Obamacare by labeling the individual mandate a tax, the U.S. Senate became that much more important and a battleground for conservatives who want to repeal Obamacare. In the runoff for the

To get a sense of the state of on-line political world today, consider this: RightOnline, the annual gathering of conservative and libertarian bloggers and activists met this weekend in Las Vegas, the biggest city in the swingiest of swing states,

On the heels of the conservative movement’s success in Indiana with a critically important primary victory for Richard Mourdock over RINO U.S. Senator Dick Lugar, our focus must now shift to Texas and the U.S. Senate run-off between Ted Cruz and

Texas’ Senate seat just became ground zero in the struggle for the soul of the GOP between constitutional conservatives and the establishment. Rising GOP starTed Cruz managed to keep ultra-wealthy Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst from winning the May 29 primary,

David Dewhurst is an institution in Texas. The powerful Lieutenant Governor has been a political powerbroker in the state for decades. With the backing of the entire Republican establishment, including Gov. Rick Perry, Dewhurst raised a colossal $13 million for

Last week, Public Policy Polling had TX Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst on the cusp of winning outright the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate. In Texas, any candidate winning more than 50% of the primary vote wins the nomination. Less than