More than 10,000 people here at Liberty University’s convocation on Monday morning went wild as conservative Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) announced his presidential campaign, asking Americans to “imagine a president” who stands up for the values they believe in.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made his official speech announcing he was running for President in 2016 on Monday at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. His speech focused on the “promise of America” and asked listeners to “imagine” events in the past — both from his own family’s history and the nation’s — and to imagine a bright future for America, restored to the great “shining city on a hill.”
Inside the Carter Glass Mansion on the campus of Liberty University here, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was gracious enough to allow Breitbart News to capture some photos of him and his family—wife Heidi and daughters Caroline and Catherine—as the potential first family got ready for bed ahead of the senator’s big speech on Monday morning.
Following the Twitter announcement where Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced his entrance to the race for President of the United States, the Senator is formally announcing his campaign before a crowd of 11,000 at Liberty University. Following is a live stream of the first Republican candidate for the 2016 Republican nomination’s speech:
Jenny Beth Martin, the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots and the head of the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund Super PAC, is celebrating Sen. Ted Cruz’s announcement on Twitter that he’s running for president.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is expected to announce he is running for President in 2016 in a speech scheduled Monday morning at Liberty University, but a tweet he posted Sunday evening indicated the news could come within a few hours.
Grassroots conservatives across Texas are cheering the news that Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will announce that he is running for President in 2016 on Monday. The news was especially welcomed by many activists who have supported Cruz for years, long before he became a household name.
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon will be hosting a program discussing all of the most important recent news stories and especially the developments in the 2016 presidential race. Bannon will be discussing the possible launch of the Ted Cruz 2016 presidential campaign that could be announced at Liberty University on Monday as reported by Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle.
Maryland’s former Democrat Governor Martin O’Malley has been making all the moves necessary to present himself as a sensible alternative to Hillary Clinton for the Democrat nomination for President in 2016, but by some accounts he has yet to make much headway towards his goal.
“There has never been a candidate like me,” Donald Trump says. He’s considering a 2016 presidential bid.
Steve Deace, a nationally syndicated conservative radio host based in Iowa, said in an interview with Breitbart News that newly-hired Walker digital director Liz Mair “is on the wrong side of three issues that are non-starters, non-negotiables for Iowa conservatives.”
During the midterm elections, conservatives ushered in a new crop of Republican representatives, senators, governors, and state legislators. Most of the winners promised to cut the size and scope of government. While we still have many obstacles on the federal level, there are real examples on the state level of cutting government waste.
Sen. Rand Paul looks to build campaign strength, but in Texas this weekend, rather than New Hampshire or Iowa.
As the bank accounts of Silicon Valley swell, so too does their appetite for lobbying the government. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, over the last 25 years, lobbying has spiked almost 2,000%, from 800K in 1990 to over 60M in 2012.
Donald Trump speaks out during a conference call with grassroots activists nationwide from Tea Party Patriots on Sunday night.
Jeb Bush finishes a disappointing fifth in the CPAC straw poll, even though he reportedly brought busloads of supporters to back his candidacy.
Like a bad moon rising, a Clinton revival takes shape now as Hillary Rodham Clinton, presumed front runner among Democrats, casts her eyes on the prize she has chased with every fiber of her being for so long–a chance to be elected the first female President of the United States.
Sen. Rand Paul speaks out at CPAC.
Public Policy Polling (PPP) numbers have Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker emerging as “a clear leader in the race for the first time,” according to a new release.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign is using mainstream media “gotcha” questions regarding Barack Obama to start an email fundraising campaign.
As former Governor Rick Perry (R-Texas) prepares to launch his second presidential campaign, the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) could very well be a do-or-die moment for him, as he seeks to reconnect with grassroots conservatives who are concerned he is out-of-step with their views on issues like immigration and border security. During the past month, Perry has made comments that indicate he may be taking a more moderate path than in 2012, putting him at odds with the traditionally conservative CPAC audience.
Calling Sen. Rand Paul’s rhetoric regarding the Federal Reserve “dangerous and irresponsible,” the Wall Street-backed establishment GOP is pushing back on what’s become a Paul talking point.
RIVERSIDE, California—“I am giving very serious consideration to a run for the white house,” former candidate for U.S. Senate in California and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina said, as she closed out her comments to a theater full of tea partiers from across California’s Inland Empire region and beyond. She used the opportunity to not only discuss her vision, but also to slam potential 2016 Democrat Presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren.
A major player in Rand Paul’s finance team stands accused of caddish behavior and sexual assault, and the civil litigation is ongoing. Indeed, the case could become an issue in Paul’s potential presidential run.
With a generous baker’s dozen preening and jockeying for early attention, this Republican presidential nomination fight appears to be turning into another none-of-the-above contest. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker crashed this week’s Drudge Poll by collecting 46 percent of votes, and that was in a pared-down field of 13 possible candidates.
Potential GOP 2016 presidential hopeful Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) unveiled an education policy plan Monday that confronted the dismal state of public education in the United States and put forth a pathway that emphasizes the role of parents–and not government–as the greatest influence in students’ lives.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” former Obama administration green jobs czar Van Jones said the upcoming 2016 presidential campaign will look like a “rainbow coalition,” on the Republican side which should have Democrats worried. Jones said, “Democrats
News is emerging that wealthy Hillary Clinton donors Albert and Claire Dwoskin are also critics of vaccination.
There’s no debate. Or is there? New Hampshire’s Democratic Party chair refuses to say whether there’ll be a debate ahead of the state’s primary next year.
Sen. Rand Paul took the occasion of former Florida Gov. Jeb’s Bush’s admission that he smoked pot as a teenager as an opportunity to jab his probable 2016 opponent as a hypocrite on the issue of medical marijuana, something Bush opposes.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is the top choice for president in 2016 among Republican voters in Iowa, surging past a crowded field of rivals to take the lead in a Bloomberg/Des Moines Register poll of prospective Republican candidates for president.
Rush Limbaugh said on his Monday radio program that Scott Walker is the “blueprint for the Republican party” if they want to beat the Left in 2016.
According to the pundits, this weekend’s Iowa Freedom Summit recalibrated the Republican presidential field. The summit, run by archconservative Rep. Steve King (R-IA), drew candidates from across the spectrum – and shook up the widespread perceptions of frontrunners versus also-rans. Here are the weekend’s big winners and losers.
“I can make America great again,” entrepreneur and television host Donald Trump told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview broadcast on SiriusXM Patriot Sunday.
On Breitbart News Sunday hosted by Breitbart Executive News Chairman Stephen K. Bannon and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Marlow, Trump spoke in an easy matter-of-fact way that America needs a leader that understands international relationships and global politics.
At the Iowa Freedom Summit, Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) let Republican voters know that the Common Core standards are a huge electoral issue for the 2016 presidential election – and that he’s anxious they’ll remember his support for the controversial education reform initiative.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer named Florida Senator Marco Rubio his pick as most likely to be the GOP nominee on Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. Krauthammer was asked by fellow panelist Steve Hayes how he would allocate his
In a video published on ABCNews.com on Friday, former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) left open the possibility of a 2016 run for president when asked about the 2016 race and the possibility she would run by network’s Neal Karlinsky. “Yeah,
In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” on Friday, former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon and possible 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson reacted to the news Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is on the verge of pursuing a 2016 presidential
On Friday’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made an appearance to discuss the fallout from the collapse of Yemen in recent days. However, toward the end of the segment, Graham discussed 2016 presidential politics. According to Graham, the
Mitt Romney said Wednesday night that he believes in global warming and that humans contribute to it.
