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Ted Cruz Eyes 2028 Bid, Vance Showdown Looms
Newsmax ^ | December 22nd, 2025 | By Charlie McCarthy

Posted on 12/22/2025 11:56:04 AM PST by Mariner

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, reportedly is considering a 2028 presidential run, which could put him on a collision course with Vice President JD Vance.

Cruz privately has been signaling to allies that he's hearing growing encouragement to jump into the next open Republican primary, as the party begins to look past President Donald Trump's second term, The Washington Post reported Monday.

Cruz's deliberations, the newspaper said, have intensified as he positions himself as a leading voice for a more traditional, hawkish GOP foreign policy — and as he wages an increasingly public feud with influential MAGA media figure Tucker Carlson.

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Lyin' Ted wants to overturn MAGA with neoconservatism.

Just stay home Ted. We have a great deal of animus toward you that we would like to keep in check.

1 posted on 12/22/2025 11:56:04 AM PST by Mariner
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Better dead than ted


2 posted on 12/22/2025 11:58:55 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: Mariner

Can’t we get thru until at least mid-terms before the signs start going back up?


3 posted on 12/22/2025 11:59:45 AM PST by albie
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To: Mariner

I think USSC would be Ted’s best course.


4 posted on 12/22/2025 12:01:05 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Mariner
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, reportedly is considering a 2028 presidential run

No.

5 posted on 12/22/2025 12:01:30 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Mariner

I’m leaning heavily towards a Vance/Rubio ticket right now. 2028’s a long way off though — politically speaking. Anything can change. Just where I’m at right now.


6 posted on 12/22/2025 12:02:34 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Mariner

Ted Cruz has ZERO charisma. The idea that he would even consider a run for president shows how divorced these perfumed legislative princes are from reality.

Perhaps he could be a supreme court justice.


7 posted on 12/22/2025 12:02:40 PM PST by Freee-dame (The left never dreamed that Trump would be back in the White House in 2025. )
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To: Mariner

Ahole spoiler baby.


8 posted on 12/22/2025 12:03:41 PM PST by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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To: Mariner

I am sure Ron DeSantis is making plans to run. His mission statement last time was that a vote for him was a vote for Trump without Trump.


9 posted on 12/22/2025 12:03:43 PM PST by odawg
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To: Mariner

Seems like a good time to remind everyone that Cruz’s 2016 “running mate” voted for Biden in 2020.


10 posted on 12/22/2025 12:03:46 PM PST by MountainWalker
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Can’t we get thru until at least mid-terms before the signs start going back up?

I'd say "I'm with you!" were I still in Illinois where it was just a sea of blue Democrat signs where I lived. But now that I'm in Tennessee and having deliberately moved into a heavily RED voting area, I can't wait for the signs to go back up, LOL!!

11 posted on 12/22/2025 12:03:57 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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Ted has consistently been one of the better senators, IMO, so I won’t join the silly bashing. That being said, I’m fully behind Vance on ‘08.


12 posted on 12/22/2025 12:04:04 PM PST by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
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To: Mariner

Rafael Edward Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada.


13 posted on 12/22/2025 12:06:05 PM PST by DFG
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“Ted Cruz has ZERO charisma.”

He has SOME charisma. The same amount as the ping pong ball my cats are playing with. 1% charisma.


14 posted on 12/22/2025 12:06:32 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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Imho, there could be far worse candidates


15 posted on 12/22/2025 12:07:32 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: CaptainK

Cruz is Deep State’s.


16 posted on 12/22/2025 12:08:02 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: Mariner

Ted Cruz, like Vivek would have to overcome his fear of speaking into a microphone while a camera is on. That shyness of his holds him back. /S


17 posted on 12/22/2025 12:08:58 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: MayflowerMadam

.... maybe the same as the ping pong ball but your cats have a lot more charisma than Ted.


18 posted on 12/22/2025 12:09:06 PM PST by Freee-dame (The left never dreamed that Trump would be back in the White House in 2025. )
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To: Mariner
The Washington Post reported Monday.
Do you really need to read more than that?? Sources say...
19 posted on 12/22/2025 12:09:20 PM PST by citizen (A transgender malel competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: faithhopecharity

“Imho, there could be far worse candidates”

Not many.

And JD Vance is not among them.


20 posted on 12/22/2025 12:09:27 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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