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Ted Cruz was, is and
will always be PRO-Life!
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Former presidential
candidate Ted Cruz reacted
after the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a Texas law requiring
abortion clinics to meet the standards of surgical centers. What do you think?
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"These Planned Parenthood videos are
horrifying. I would encourage every American to watch the videos. It is a
felony with ten years' jail term to sell the body parts of unborn children for
profit; that's what these videos show Planned Parenthood doing. Absolutely we
shouldn't be sending $500 million of taxpayer money to funding an ongoing
criminal enterprise.”
– Senator Ted Cruz
Learn more: http://bit.ly/1YIYhNP
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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. 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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