Posted on 02/27/2014 10:07:24 AM PST by cotton1706
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Thursday didn't rule out involvement in GOP primaries this year against incumbent Republican senators.
Cruz said he had made no "ironclad promise" to stay out of the primaries.
"What I have said is that I'm likely going to stay out of incumbent Republican primaries," he said. "I haven't put that in concrete."
A fundraising email Cruz wrote for the Madison Project emerged this week. The group has backed Republican candidates running against Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Sen. Pat Roberts (Kan.). Cruz had told other Republican senators that he wouldn't help outside groups targeting his opponents, and he said the email for the Madison Project had been written last April, before the conversation had taken place.
But Cruz, who irritated his colleagues earlier this month with a filibuster on legislation to raise the debt ceiling, said nothing is certain.
"Things can change in politics," he said.
He also criticized the National Republican Senatorial Committee for its involvement in GOP primaries. Cruz is the vice chairman of the NRSC, though he has often worked at cross-purposes with the group.
"I disagree with what the NRSC has done there," he said. "When I took on the role leadership had told me that they'd learned the lessons from 2010 to stay out of primaries."
Cruz disagreed that he was causing problems for other GOP senators — and blamed leadership.
"I don't want to throw any Republicans under the bus," he said, criticizing McConnell and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) for whipping Republicans to vote for the procedural motion to get to a final vote on the debt ceiling bill. "To be clear, it was Republican leadership that was looking to throw Republicans under the bus."
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Thanks for the link, deport!
I checked 2/26 and found only 4 counties went Dem. I early voted today in Tarrant Co. and it seemed at least 3 of every 4 were voting Republican.
I recall he also endorsed Katrina Pearson.
If he is doing that, no reason to avoid stepping up in the Senate race.
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Wasn’t that just Rafeal Cruz?
Or did Ted endorse also? (
Well I THOUGHT it was Sen Cruz, it was part of a web page or a graphic. I looked at it and thought that ought to wrinkle Pete’s tie...
I will look some more.
Thanks!
TLI
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well, regardless, I sure hope Katrina sends Pete packing to Florida come Tuesday!
Go Katrina!!!
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