Machine Gunning Cruz
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A Cruz engraved shotgun
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Ted Cruz defends the Second Amendment
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As president, I'll defend the Second Amendment
and our entire Bill of Rights!
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Rafael Edward
"Ted" Cruz (born December 22, 1970) is an American
politician and attorney, who has served as the junior United States Senator
from Texas since 2013.[1] He was a candidate for the Republican
nomination for President of
the United States in the 2016
election.
Cruz
graduated from Princeton University,
New Jersey, in 1992, and from Harvard Law School,
Massachusetts, in 1995. From 1999 to 2003, he served in various political
appointee positions: the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade
Commission (FTC), an Associate
Deputy Attorney General at the United
States Department of Justice, and a Domestic Policy Advisor to George W. Bush on the 2000 George
W. Bush Presidential campaign.
Cruz served
as Solicitor General of Texas,
from 2003 to 2008, appointed by Texas Attorney General,
Greg Abbott. He was the first Hispanic, and the
longest-serving, Solicitor General in Texas history. From 2004 to 2009, Cruz
was an Adjunct Professor
at the University
of Texas School of Law in Austin, Texas, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court
litigation.
Cruz ran for
the Senate seat vacated by fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison
and, in July 2012, defeated Lieutenant
Governor David Dewhurst
during the Republican primary runoff, 57%–43%. He defeated former State
Representative Paul Sadler in the
November 2012 general election, winning 56%–41%. He is the first Hispanic American to serve as a U.S. Senator
representing Texas, and is one of three senators of Cuban descent. He chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Federal Rights
and Agency Activities, and is the Chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Space, Science and
Competitiveness. In November 2012, he was appointed Vice-Chairman of
the National
Republican Senatorial Committee.
Cruz began
campaigning for the Republican
presidential nomination in March 2015. During the primary campaign,
his base of support was strongest with "women, white evangelical
Protestants, people over the age of 50, and those who identified themselves as
conservatives", though he had crossover appeal to other factions within
his party, including libertarian
conservatives and millennials.
Cruz's
victory in the February 2016 Iowa caucuses marked the first time a Hispanic
person won a U.S. presidential caucus or primary. He eventually emerged as the
main challenger to frontrunner Donald Trump. He suspended his campaign for
president on May 3, 2016, after losing the Republican
primary in Indiana to Trump.
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