Ted Cruz

Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville Joins Group Challenging Electoral College Vote

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by Alabama News Network Staff

Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama)(Stefani Reynolds/Pool via AP) Alabama U.S. Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville is joining a growing number of Republican lawmakers to support President Trump’s effort to overturn the presidential election, pledging to reject the results. Congress will meet on January 6 to count the Electoral College votes and certify President-elect Joe Biden’s win. Today, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced a…

Cruz Ends Bid For Republican Nomination

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by Darryl Hood

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is ending his presidential campaign, eliminating the biggest impediment to Donald Trump’s march to the Republican nomination. Cruz’s campaign said he plans to drop out of the race Tuesday following his loss in Indiana’s Republican primary to Trump. Cruz’s campaign placed its hopes on a data-driven effort to turn out conservative evangelical Christians who had opted…

New Cruz Ad Says Much Is At Stake on High Court

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by Darryl Hood

WASHINGTON (AP) – There’s a new campaign ad from Republican Ted Cruz today, warning that conservatives are “just one Supreme Court justice away” from losing on issues that are important to them. Those issues, the ad says, include “life, marriage, religious liberty, the Second Amendment.” It also suggests that Donald Trump would nominate more liberal justices. The ad comes two…

Cruz Takes Iowa, Clinton and Sanders Deadlocked

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by Darryl Hood

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has won Iowa’s Republican caucuses, moving past billionaire Donald Trump and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Cruz’s victory over Trump is credited in part to his massive get-out-the-vote operation in Iowa and the months he spent wooing the state’s influential conservative and evangelical leaders. It was also a harsh blow to Trump,…