Actually, I wouldn't put that past him.
I won't call him a liar, because that upsets people.
But I will call him a prevaricator.
As noted elsewhere, he is a sophist, a rhetorician -- a man who makes his living as a spinner of words, for the purpose of persuasion. He comes across to me like a member of the Plaintiff's Bar; and all he cares about is winning his case.
And his wife is a lawyer, too. They probably see eye to eye on most things.... She is an elitist, to put it mildly. Ted's claims of populist sympathies -- of caring about the little guy (a/k/a the great unwashed, i.e., working and middle class Americans) -- is probably pure spin designed to improve his chances of electoral success. It is otherwise void, empty.
Well, that's my estimation of the man, FWIW.
I hope I'll never have to vote for him. But I will if I have to, holding my nose all the while.
No, she is not. She is an expert in international finance from CMC with a Harvard MBA.
[1][10][11] [12] Her brother, Scott C. Nelson, today is an orthopedic surgeon and humanitarian.[13][14] Her Finnish-American maternal grandfather served for 22 years as a missionary physician and pastor in the former Belgian Congo.[15]
Cruz announced in fifth grade that she intended to attend Harvard Business School one day, her mother reflecting that she was unsure of how her daughter knew of the school and described her as a "slacker".[16] Cruz's political interest developed when she traveled to Washington with her parents at age 8,[16] and grew when she was age 12 and read an issue of Time magazine concerning the 1984 presidential election, while working at a bread stand.[17]
She graduated with a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Claremont McKenna College in 1994. She was active in Claremont McKenna's Republican group, but was asked to resign after spying on Bill Clinton's campaign for reelection.[16] During her time at Claremont McKenna College, she studied abroad at the University of Strasbourg.[18] In 1995, she received a Masters of European Business from Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium and in 2000, she graduated with a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.[1][11][19]