Conservative Iowa Talk Radio Host Steve Deace Endorses Ted Cruz

NBC News ^ | Aug 19 2015 | Danny Freeman and Vaughn Hillyard

[Isara]

Influential conservative Iowa talk radio host Steve Deace has officially endorsed Texas Senator Ted Cruz for president.

"The candidate we are supporting is Texas Senator Ted Cruz…He's what we've been waiting for," said the conservative host.

The announcement, which Deace made on his radio program on Wednesday afternoon, came two days ahead of the candidate's visit to the Iowa State Fair and about six months ahead of the Iowa Republican Caucus.

He also tweeted about the endorsement after making the announcement on the air.

The syndicated radio host has promised to fully put his weight behind Cruz's candidacy on his air waves in order to push him toward a victory in Iowa.

"My wife and I have decided we are going to back a candidate early again for 2016 and then do everything we can to help him win Iowa," Deace told NBC News last week and has emphasized on his website continuously throughout the past year.

The Christian host wields a large amount of influence among conservative evangelical Iowans and he demonstrated his reach in 2008, when he endorsed former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee early in 2007. Deace promoted Governor Huckabee on his radio program for months leading into caucus season, and it is widely said to have played a considerable part in helping the governor win the Iowa caucuses.

In contrast, Deace threw his support behind former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich less than a week ahead of the 2012 caucuses, and Gingrich finished in distant fourth on caucus night.

U.S. Representative Steve King from Iowa explained the importance of the evangelical caucus goer to NBC News on Wednesday.

"Well we're talking about caucus goers, so the business community doesn't turn that many out from a numbers standpoint. The Evangelical does. I mean when the pastors step up to the pulpit and say 'Here's how you get a godly government, you show up and caucus and vote for a godly candidate, that's powerful.'"

Representative King, whose endorsement would carry a tremendous amount of influence with conservatives in Iowa, said on Deace's radio program earlier Wednesday that he would not be endorsing a candidate for at least a month or two, though he looked forward to hearing who the radio host supported.

Just a few weeks ago, Deace wrote that he had narrowed the field of 17 Republican presidential candidates to four: Senator Cruz, Governor Huckabee, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.

[Isara]

FYI

[cripplecreek]

Nice catch.

[Liz]

There are serious differences between Trump and Cruz on immigration.

Trump and Cruz are miles apart on legal immigration......Cruz has championed an expansion of legal immigration, arguing it would help the economy. During the 2013 immigration debate, the Texas senator proposed an amendment to the comprehensive “gang of eight” Senate bill that he boasted would “dramatically increase” the annual limit on H-1B skilled guest worker visas from—65,000 to 325,000—a five-fold expansion.

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It's disappointing that Cruz's transparent "VP-pick-me" gambit keeps propagating that "the two bonded over the issue of illegal immigration."

Cruz also voted for Obama's trade deal...a deal Trump plans to obliterate.

A huge red flag is that Cruz seemingly grovels for latino votes....consistently depicting himself as "latino" Yet his family bgrnd indicates only his father is Spanish; his mother is not---has two nationalities, one from each of her parents. Cruz has been living large, seeking the spotlight off his last name for ages. Could be a latino "us against them" battle-cry lurking behind all of his conservative blather.

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And while Trump has ignited America's visceral contempt for politicians... voters will be aghast knowing Cruz is a Washington Insider. He has yet to highlight even one of these committees as a campaign credential......guess he knows that would put the kibosh to his aspirations.

CURRENT COMMITTES (Cruz web site):

•Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities

•Subcommittee on Seapower

•Subcommittee on Strategic Forces

Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation

•Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, Chairman

•Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security

•Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet

•Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security

•Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard

Committee on the Judiciary

•Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, Chairman

•Subcommittee on The Constitution

•Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest

Joint Economic Committee

Committee on Rules & Administration

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BGRND (WIKI)---Elected US senator in 2012---Canadian-born Cruz was touted as "the first Hispanic or Cuban American to serve as a U.S. Senator" representing Texas. He is the chairman of the subcommittee on the Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.[7] He is also the chairman of the United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee.

Between 1999 and 2003, Canadian-born Cruz was the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an associate deputy attorney general at the United States Department of Justice, and domestic policy advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign. He served as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to May 2008, after being appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.[8]

Cruz was also an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, from 2004 to 2009.[12][13] While there, he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation.[12]

Cruz, born in Canada, is one of three US Senators of Cuban descent.

Cruz was the Republican nominee for the Senate seat vacated by fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison.[15] On July 31, 2012, he defeated Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican primary runoff, 57%–43%.[16] Cruz defeated former state Representative Paul Sadler in the general election on November 6, 2012. He prevailed 56%–41% over Sadler.[16][17]

On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. (WIKI excerpt)

NOTE Cruz recently renounced his Canadian citizenship.