Does Ted believe in the rapture doctrine? Most evangelicals I know do. If their rapture happens before November who will fill Ted’s spot?
Actually, if he believes what his father preaches, he is an adherent to Dominionism. Which apparently says the Christians have to create the Kingdom of God on Earth without Jesus’ help. So the End of Days is not near and there is no need for a Rapture.
For example, see: https://jonathanturley.org/2013/10/12/ted-cruz-dominionism-and-jesus/
“U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz — whose father is Rafael Cruz, a rabid right-wing Christian preacher and the director of the Purifying Fire International ministry — and legions of the senator’s wealthy supporters, some of whom orchestrated the shutdown, are rooted in a radical Christian ideology known as Dominionism or Christian Reconstructionism.
This ideology calls on anointed “Christian” leaders to take over the state and make the goals and laws of the nation “biblical.” It seeks to reduce government to organizing little more than defense, internal security and the protection of property rights. It fuses with the Christian religion the iconography and language of American imperialism and nationalism, along with the cruelest aspects of corporate capitalism. The intellectual and moral hollowness of the ideology, its flagrant distortion and misuse of the Bible, the contradictions that abound within it — its leaders champion small government and a large military, as if the military is not part of government — and its laughable pseudo-science are impervious to reason and fact. And that is why the movement is dangerous.