Cruz raps 2016 rival Rubio for skipping Senate debates

The candidate detailed items he said he would do the first day if elected into office, including doing away with all “illegal and unconstitutional executive actions set forth by the president”.

Cruz also spoke with the media before the event, and had plenty of nice things to say about current Republican front-runner Donald Trump. English said Monday the campaign is about halfway to its goal.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz appeared with Iowa Congressman Steve King and Senator Chuck Grassley earlier Monday night at Western Iowa Tech. He begins Monday in Fort Dodge with a Town Hall meeting at 9:30 a.m. then moves on the Rockwell City for a meet and greet at the Pizza Ranch at noon.

Ted Cruz (R-TX) floated his pick for the next House speaker while campaigning in Sioux City, Iowa: Mark Levin, the conservative talk radio host who worked for the Reagan White House.

“If we nominate another candidate in the mold of Bob Dole, or a John McCain or a Mitt Romney, all of whom are good honorable decent men, but what they did didn’t work”, said Cruz.

Recently, Rubio has come under criticism for missing hearings and Senate votes while campaigning and raising money for his presidential bid.

The exit of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker from the race has freed his supporters to consider Cruz.

“I think if we’re going to win in 2016, the central question is: How do you bring back to the polls the millions of conservatives who are staying home?” Ministers are powerful validators in the Republican caucuses, given their regular contact with Iowa’s religious conservatives.

“I’m in the best position, based on a record of fighting for conservative principles, over and over and over again, to mobilize and energize and inspire those conservatives to come out”, he added.