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Senator: 'Ted Cruz is my friend'
The Examiner ^ | 2/5/16 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 02/05/2016 4:51:06 PM PST by justlittleoleme

Sen. Mike Lee doesn't like it when GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump claims that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has no friends in the Senate. "It makes me mad when Trump says that," Lee told the Washington Examiner this week. "Ted Cruz is my friend, so if Mr. Trump or anyone else is saying Ted Cruz doesn't have any friends in the Senate, I can say unequivocally, that is not true. I am his friend and I don't regard myself as alone in that either."

Lee in 2010 became the first Tea Party candidate to upset an incumbent GOP senator.

Trump has spent weeks hitting Cruz for failing to garner the endorsement of any fellow senators, but Lee said he has only remained on the sidelines because some of his "close friends" are running for president, such as Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

Paul's departure from the race simplifies the problem for Lee, but only a little. "If either Ted or Marco were the only one of my friends in there, I'd endorse either one," he said. "If it came down to a two-person race, say, between Cruz and Trump or Rubio and Trump, then it's an easy decision to make."


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; lee
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To: andy1954

Because multiple senators were/are running and he’s up for election. That’s my guess.


21 posted on 02/05/2016 5:19:56 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: cripplecreek

Where does Tom Cotton rank on that list?


22 posted on 02/05/2016 5:21:27 PM PST by Paladin2 (w)
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To: map

DeMint would be a pretty good pick.


23 posted on 02/05/2016 5:22:47 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: GodGunsGuts

I have always liked the guy, but thanks for the heads up.


24 posted on 02/05/2016 5:23:38 PM PST by Gator113 (~~Go Trump Go~~~~Go Trump Go~~~~Go Trump Go~~~~Go Trump Go~~~~Go Trump Go~~~~Go Trump Go~~)
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To: map

Can’t be Lee/Sessions since Lee is not on the ballot.


25 posted on 02/05/2016 5:24:10 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: justlittleoleme

I think we have all had friends that did not have the desire to fight the enemy and handed over their lunch money.

Fock islam, illegals, Dindus and gibmedats.


26 posted on 02/05/2016 5:24:58 PM PST by soycd
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To: andy1954

The Hatchling is out to get Lee this year.


27 posted on 02/05/2016 5:25:40 PM PST by Paladin2 (w)
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To: Irenic

That makes sense or he like me really believes friend Rubio has a better chance.


28 posted on 02/05/2016 5:25:50 PM PST by andy1954
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To: ru4liberty

He does leave Nancy Pelosi alone so I guess that shows that he respects women.


29 posted on 02/05/2016 5:28:34 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: justlittleoleme

In the upside down world of FR Ted Cruz is the nasty, inconsistent, opportunistic Texan and Donald Trump is the caring, principled, conservative New Yorker.


30 posted on 02/05/2016 5:29:50 PM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: Paladin2

Ok.


31 posted on 02/05/2016 5:30:26 PM PST by andy1954
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To: andy1954

I think it is that Canadian thing.


32 posted on 02/05/2016 5:30:28 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: jospehm20

I think it is because the down ticket is in real trouble with. Cruz he could lose 40 states and congress. They all know it.


33 posted on 02/05/2016 5:35:49 PM PST by andy1954
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To: andy1954

My mom is for Rubio and my son was for Carson but has mostly come over to Cruz. He thinks Carson doesn’t put enough into his campaign but my son loved how Carson used Facebook to communicate with people, take questions and such. I think my husband has thrown up his hands and thinks nothing is going to change until it all falls apart and we start over. I’m kinda waving the Cruz flag by myself over here, but my son texts with me during debates and I’m pretty sure he’s going Cruz now. My mom will cut me off in a heartbeat if I mention anything negative about Rubio.


34 posted on 02/05/2016 5:35:52 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: justlittleoleme
Why wait Mike? Endorse now while Cruz still has life in the campaign.
35 posted on 02/05/2016 5:36:54 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Irenic

You should listen to your Mother. LOL.


36 posted on 02/05/2016 5:39:48 PM PST by andy1954
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To: cripplecreek
He does leave Nancy Pelosi alone so I guess that shows that he respects women.

Googling: "How to clean iced tea off your monitor and keyboard."

37 posted on 02/05/2016 5:40:24 PM PST by ru4liberty (I wish FR were still "The Premiere *CONSERVATIVE* Site on the Net" :'(.....)
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To: andy1954

hahahahaha! I mostly do.


38 posted on 02/05/2016 5:41:40 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Loved that film. The only Val Kilmer film I like.


39 posted on 02/05/2016 5:42:58 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: Irenic

Good she is right this time. :).


40 posted on 02/05/2016 5:54:02 PM PST by andy1954
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