Presidential politics complicates life in the Senate

The campaign also pointed to an interview with Hugh Hewitt in July where Cruz boasted about being a co-sponsor of the bill.

In the presidential campaign, Sens. And compared to Carson, the first-term senator seems experienced. The average donation from his 360,000 contributors has been $73. He has more money in his political coffers than the rest of the GOP field, and has a first-rate campaign infrastructure, with a heavy presence in the first voting states, Politico noted. Ted Cruz, a GOP candidate for president. “He never embarrasses me”. “I don’t know that’s the case anymore”.

Cruz tied with Trump among Texans for the Republican nomination, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll.

Cruz’s next stop is in Charleston, where he will have a meet-and-greet with voters at the College of Charleston. Unlike his rivals, Cruz has been careful to avoid publicly mocking or criticizing either Trump or Carson, mindful he might one day be courting their supporters.

Even with two prominent Florida politicians in the race – former Gov. Jeb Bush and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio still supports a path to citizenship for the millions of people in the country illegally.

“There is a sorting that’s happening”, Cruz said in Lubbock.

“You can’t pick up the phone and call Syria, and that’s one of the reasons why I said we won’t be able to take more refugees”, Rubio said on ABC. Ted Cruz, who have been sparring over a separate amendment that Cruz proposed to the immigration bill.

While Bush has a far more conservative record (naturally, in Florida, rather than blue New Jersey), Christie’s campaign skills are vastly superior. Hickey said she hasn’t decided on a candidate yet, but was impressed with Heidi Cruz.

“You have senators running to be the nominee of the Republican Party, and you have senators who are running to win re-election in the general election in the fall of 2016, and those at the moment are fundamentally different priorities”, said Brian Walsh, a Republican consultant. We need health insurance reform. As Eliana Johnson and Alexis Levinson explain, Rubio was referring to was Cruz’s introduction, during the debate over the Gang of Eight bill, of an amendment that would have removed the language in the bill that granted citizenship to those here illegally but nonetheless allowed them to remain in the country with legal status.

Cruz has wanted to increase legal immigration for years, and now, less than 90 days before Iowa votes, he has changed his position.

HUGH HEWITT: “Now Senator Cruz, I’m not sure, I can’t recall if you voted against the collection of metadata or for the ending of it, but if it existed, we could be right now connecting dots with Abdulazeez”.

The amendment hit the floor during Senate deliberations on the immigration bill in 2013, but senators voted 61-37 to table the provision.

“We love you, Ted!” a voice hollered from the crowd.

Huckabee also attacked President Obama for saying recently that Isis had been “contained” and said the president was more concerned with “image of Islam” than defeating extremist terror groups.

Cruz wouldn’t say who her favorite first lady was, answering, “I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about first ladies”. “I just don’t get a good feeling”.

The GOP’s best and brightest are getting stomped by a carnival barker whose vocabulary barely extends beyond “terrific” and “terrible”, and an exceptional neurosurgeon who is completely incapable of being president.

With the Thanksgiving break and the holiday season nearly upon us (and the attendant lack of movement in election news which usually attends this period) I’m noticing a few serious panic beginning to set in among fans of politics as usual.