Ted Cruz, left, campaigns in Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday, May 9, for Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Ricketts, right. Ricketts won the party's nomination in last night's primary
Posted on 05/14/2014 7:31:12 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Tea Party Senator Ted Cruz claimed his first victory in the battle to control the Republican Party on Tuesday night when his two candidates in Nebraska won their primary elections.
Cruz endorsed gubernatorial candidate Pete Ricketts and Senate candidate Ben Sasse won their respective primary races, positioning Cruz as kingmaker in November.
'Ben Sasse’s decisive victory in Nebraska tonight is a clear indication that the grassroots are rising up to Make DC Listen. They’re rising up to take our country back,' Cruz posted to his Facebook.
Ted Cruz, left, campaigns in Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday, May 9, for Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Ricketts, right. Ricketts won the party's nomination in last night's primary
Cruz won his own Senate primary after being endorsed by then-Senator Jim DeMint, the upper chamber's resident kingmaker at the time.
DeMint left the Senate to run conservative non-profit The Heritage Foundation just as Cruz was taking office and Cruz has since sought to fill his mentor's shoes.
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Thanks for the ping.
Proof please.
How about in his own words? In the first video he discusses an amendment he was proposing to add to Rubio’s bill back a year ago. At about 3:40 of the video he talks about legal status in his amendment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iloBCB59O0#t=256
Later in the video, he talks about the need for more foreign workers.
I too thought Cruz and Rubio were both the real deal when they first came on the scene. Both have shown themselves to be crony capitalists like most of the clowns around them.
Yeah, this doesn’t convince me that he supports amnesty. It convinces me that he proposed an amendment to a bill in the Senate, and didn’t, at that time, support deportation of illegals. But at the same time wanted there to be consequences for those who came here illegally.
And? Yeah, it’s more moderate than I’d like, but this isn’t supporting amnesty. He didn’t propose the bill; he attempted to amend it to take some of the amnesty out of it.
Not exactly fire in the belly, but not enough to get me to denounce him.
Anything else?
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