Fox News:
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz announced that he will run for president in 2016 via a Twitter post early Monday.
The tweet announcing Cruz’s candidacy was accompanied by a 30-second video which featured Cruz speaking over a montage of American scenes and calling on “a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again.”
“I’m ready to stand with you to lead the fight,” Cruz says as the video concludes.
Cruz, the first candidate to enter the 2016 White House race, had been expected to make the announcement later Monday during a speech at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. He is expected to start his campaign immediately rather than launch an exploratory committee, which many do as a precursor to a campaign.
Other candidates who have been rumored to run for the GOP nomination include former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker; Florida Sen. Marco Rubio; and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.
Following his speech at Liberty, Cruz is scheduled to speak with Fox News’ Sean Hannity in an exclusive interview.
Cruz, 44, who has made headlines for his conservative stance on immigration, has gone after other Republicans for their more moderate views.
In recent weeks, Cruz has already come under fire over his own citizenship. Two former Justice Department lawyers said last week there is no doubt the Canadian-born senator is eligible to run for the White House.
“There is no question that Senator Cruz has been a citizen from birth and is thus a ‘natural born Citizen’ within the meaning of the Constitution,” Neal Katyal, acting solicitor general in the Obama administration, and Paul Clemente, solicitor general in the President George W. Bush administration, wrote in a joint article.
I am glad Ted got into the race. It gives me hope. Not hope and change, but hope.
I really liked Ted Cruz before this announcement. I am glad to hear it. I have to agree with Old guy…this gives me Hope after 6 years of frustration, seeing my country and our Constitution be destroyed bit by bit….by a community organizer and his puppet mas tress (woman puppet master).
Now we can all look forward to the unraveling of the left begin at this announcement.
Let the viciousness of LIES, the intolerance of common sense, and the hate from the left begin… yet again..
Beware though. The left has nothing but lies to run on…people need to think if they are better off now, or were they better off 8 or even 9 years ago…
I feel like 7 years has be utterly wasted in this country… the elite in our Government have raped the taxpayers with their unending theft….we can never get any of that back.
@FAITH7:
And electing another Non Natural born citizen to the presidency is not a way to stop the slide. Ted Cruz is just as ineligible as Obama.
@Redteam:
https://drewmusings.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/yes-ted-cruz-is-eligible-to-be-president/
I like Ted Cruz. He’s smart, a very gifted orator. Yet, I wish candidates who announce their intent to run for President of the United States would refrain from making an early announcement on Twitter/Facebook and other social media platforms.
@Redteam –
Regarding Ted Cruz’s place of birth in Calgary, I’m with you on this. In matter of fact, I think it may be a bigger hurdle for Cruz versus Obama’s place of birth. If you remember, George Romney (Mitt’s dad) had similar problems when he ran for president in 1968. George Romney was born in Mexico. Though his parents were Americans, they did not register his birth with the US Consulate/Embassy in Mexico and sign the paper saying the Mexican citizenship was being waived. It was still an open question when he dropped out of the 1968 race.
John McCain, who was born at the US Naval Hospital in the Panama Canal Zone, his parents registered his birth with the US Consulate/Embassy in Panama and signed the paper waiving Panamanian citizenship. Numerous US military dependent children born out of country have the births registered with the US Consulate/Embassy and sign the paperwork waiving the foreign citizenship at that time. This is the example of how it’s supposed to be done.
When Ross Perot ran for president he was able to do something that needed doing: getting a conversation started about that ”giant sucking sound” as foreign trade deficits grew with support by both major parties.
He didn’t win, naturally, but his presence meant we had a chance to turn a big problem around, as both major parties had to address it.
With any and all of these seemingly ”can’t win” candidates, we get a new chance to see issues brought to the fore where both final candidates must address them.
Sen. Cruz has some major points he’s making…….
He has put his money where his mouth is where gov’t growth and uncontrolled spending is concerned.
He showed that by 2012 our gross federal debt exceeded our GDP.
He is for drilling here and now.
He opposes executive actions that override Congress & the Constitution.
He favors a moratorium on all earmarked spending until the budget is balanced.
He favors the repeal of the Death Tax.
He favors arming those fighting ISIS such as the Peshmerga Kurds.
He favors more sanctions against Iran until we have full rights to inspect even secret facilities.
All of these, as well as other of his viewpoints will be discussed instead of dismissed because he is throwing his hat into the ring.
More power to him for this.
I’m not sure whether I consider Ted Cruz or Twitter to be the most unworthy of the nation’s attention. It’s a tough call. Neither is a reliable source of factual information.
@Greg:
Well then, perhaps you can relate to us any instances of Cruz putting out incorrect information. You know, along the lines of:
1. If you like your doctor or your insurance, you can keep them.
2. Benghazi was a spontaneous protest over a video.
3. If you make less than $250,000 a year, your taxes won’t go up a dime.
4. Obamacare is not a tax.
5. The cost of an average healthcare plan will go down $2500 a year for a family of 4 under obamacare.
6. Hands up, don’t shoot.
7. There isn’t even a hint of corruption in the IRS.
8. Obamacare was not written purposefully to exclude states that did not set up state exchanges from getting obamacare premium subsidies.
9. Holder perjuring himself during his congressional testimony on Fast and Furious.
10. Hillary’s violation of law in operating an unsecured server while SecState.
Please, show us a single instance of such unreliability – or illegal – actions by Sen. Cruz.
@Pete, #8:
Happy to oblige. From Politifacts: All statements involving Ted Cruz.
I find it puzzling how anyone couldn’t have seen through this guy act. He’s a huckster telling people the lies that they want to hear. Obama’s problem is that he tells some people truths that they don’t want to hear.
@Greg:
Greg, that has to be the most laughable attempt at a refutation you have ever posted. Every one of the quotes that politifacts claims as false are demonstrably true, and the reliance on statements from the Occupy movement to try to discredit anyone – other than Occupy supporters – is hysterical.
And to claim that Obama has ever said anything even remotely a “truth some people don’t want to hear” is so delusional as to defy description. Honestly, you should stop mixing formaldehyde in your leftist kool-aid. It kills brain cells.
The threat of climate change is one such truth. Even the Chinese acknowledge there’s a big problem. Pollution there is a nightmare. We’re lucky to have had the EPA regulating industrial pollution for all of these years. Cruz seems to think the agency is a public enemy.
@Greg: Yes, Greg, climate change is a truth. The lie is that humans and CO2 are the cause of climate change. The climate has changed since the formation of the Earth! It is not likely that the climate will be prevented from changing by humans!
@Pete: If Cruz somehow gets the nom.–currently behind Bush, Walker,Paul and Rubio it would be a gift to the Dem nominee.
@rich wheeler:
Continue to under estimate Ted Cruz. But if we’re lucky, we’ll see a debate between Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton. Be sure that Hillary has an EMT handy when she is so bloodied she can barely walk.
@retire05: 4 I see nothing in that link that relates to how Cruz (or Obama) are natural born citizens. While I think Cruz would likely certainly make a better president than Hillary or Obama, there is no way I can support an ineligible person being elected to the job. I have always voted for Repubs for pres, but I won’t vote for an ineligible person. And I won’t vote for a Dimocrat. But my vote isn’t going to matter in the long run because there is not a chance in hell Louisiana would go Dimocrat so my vote won’t really be necessary.
My problem is that to be ‘natural born’ both parents have to be American citizens so that the person is not born a dual citizen. Persons with dual citizenship are the main concern of the writers of the Constitution, desiring that only a person with a clear allegiance only to America should be it’s leader. In Cruz’s case, he was born a Canadian, an American and a Cuban. Only by ‘law’ is he a citizen, not naturally as is required.
@Greg:
You’re talking about Obama, right? Though i’m not sure he’s really a huckster, he hasn’t advanced to that level yet.
@Redteam:
You’re wrong, but I don’t anticipate you changing your mind anytime soon. So you will have to excuse me if I rely on the opinions of Constitutional scholars (which you’re not) like Alan Dershowitz, who most certainly isn’t a conservative that would back Cruz for the highest office in our land.
@retire05:
Only one opinion has been made by any Constitutional scholars that count and they were Supreme court justices and their opinion agreed with the commonly accepted opinion until Obama got elected. That to be natural born means it can’t depend on a law to make them a citizen.
@Redteam, #16:
Uh, no.
@Greg:
Then you shouldn’t have described him so well in comment 9:
yep, you nailed it, that’s obozo.
There’s one small problem.
@Greg: Oooooh Greggie, you’re a ……..shiver…… gasp!……..BIRTHER?
I was, in fact, born myself once.
I’ve always liked Canadian bacon, and I was a big fan of both Sgt. Preston and Dudley Do-Right as a child, but I suppose a guy has got to draw a line somewhere.
@rich wheeler:
Pardon me if I don’t give much credence to such speculation from the left. If Bush gets the nomination, THAT would be a gift to the dems, as Bush has alienated the conservatives that voted for GOP control of Congress, and will not engender any grassroots support. I can already see the dem commercials and talking points the MSM would put out equating Jeb to W, should the GOP be stupid enough to have him on the ticket. Paul cannot get sufficient GOP support either. Rubio may have a chance, but his wavering position on illegal amnesty will be a problem for him. The difficulty Cruz has will be overcoming opposition from GOP establmentarians, just like Reagan had. Christie has no chance, and will function only as a spoiler, until such time as the GOP establishment feels his candidacy is diluting support for Bush. Walker at present would appear to be a formidable candidate from a conservative point of view. I can forsee a combined Walker-Cruz or Cruz-Walker ticket, notwithstanding the inevitable crossover voting from dems playing hanky-panky with GOP primaries. Huckabee is a joke, as is Trump. Fiorina has made some early good statements, and Jindal has some appeal to conservatives. But this early in the campaign, who knows what could happen. What the establishmentarians refuse to accept is that nominating another squishy candidate like Bush under the impression that we will hold our noses and vote against Clinton, Warren or O’Malley, is the conservative electoral rage over McConnell and Boehner caving to Obama after pretending to be conservative during the 2014 elections.
We want an authentic, principled conservative – not another milquetoast weenie who is unwilling to fight against whatever unamerican marxist wimp the dems will nominate. What I find particularly egregious from the left is the false portrayal of Cruz as “dumb” and “too inexperienced” in contrast to their hyperventilation over Obama as being the second coming of Einstein, Lincoln and Christ all rolled into one person. Even that leftwing law professor ( whose name unfortunately escapes me at the moment) who taught Cruz at Harvard has stated he is brilliant. Yet the MSM and idiots like Gov. Moonbeam troll out the ridiculous meme that Cruz is dumb.
But by all means, you leftists continue telling us who you think would be “best” for the GOP to nominate, and who would be “stupid” for us to pick. That tells us who you are confident you can beat in the election, and of whom you are most afraid, respectively.
@Pete:
The name of the Harvard Law professor is Alan Dershowitz, hardly a conservative, but who said that Cruz was the most brilliant student he ever had.
The establishmentarians will solidly back Jeb Bush. But the rank and file won’t and so Jeb can pimp himself out to all the big money backers he wants to, he will not win the primaries.
If the primaries offer me nothing more than another squishy liberal-lite like Dole, McCain and Romney, I abstain from voting for president come November, 2016. I have held my nose while in the voting booth for the last time.
@Greg:
Kenya, perhaps? or Indonesia?
@retire05:
Thanks, Retire. I could not remember his name. Though Dershowitz is a leftist, he is one of the rare ones who demonstrates a measure of integrity.
Your comment on not holding your nose to vote for another squishy moderate is, I believe, much greater a factor than the likes of Rove and Jeb appreciate. Grassroots conservatives are sick and tired of DC insiders like McConnell and Boehner blowing smoke about standing up for conservative principles, then hopping into bed with Pelosi and Reid. Continued programmed failure to support true conservative policies leads us towards a potential third party, with growing numbers of conservatives reaching the conclusion that there is little difference between donks and ‘phants.
@Pete: The screeching from the liberal press seems to be directly proportional to what they think his chances are of getting the nomination. Something they fear. The louder they screech, the greater they think his chances are.
Though I won’t be voting for a person that says he is strongly for upholding the constitution, then his very first act is to violate it for not being eligible to be president.
@Pete:
More and more people tell me they no longer donate to a party, but rather to the candidate themselves, hoping to get true conservatives. Even life long Democrats are telling me that they are tired of working their butts off just to have a decent life while their elected officials in D.C. thinks they should contribute more and more to providing for those that won’t work and refuse to donate to the Democrat Party now.
It’s almost a race to see which party can move further to the left the fastest.
@retire05:
I remember during the 1992 election, Rush Limbaugh said the difference between the Repubs and Dims were that the Dimocrats want socialism NOW and the Repubs are okay with it being just a few years further down the road. I’ve seen nothing since to change that. Both houses are full of leftists, some far left, some slightly left. Jeb and Rubio are pretty far left on that scale on Amnesty.
@Redteam:
Illegal immigration will not matter to the elites in D. C. until it really, REALLY affects them.
Let one of them be murdered by an illegal, or have their wife/daughter raped, or their mother killed in a car wreck by a drunk illegal. Or let one of them have their Social Security number stolen and used by an illegal who bought it at a flea market. Then, it will matter.
@retire05: yes, they are much more interested in the votes.