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KCBD-TV
April 28, 2018
Texas Senator Ted Cruz made a stop on the South Plains to speak to the citizens of Seminole on Friday. Hundreds of people packed the community center to hear Senator Cruz talk to his constituents and listen to their concerns. Cruz says he is very encouraged by the draft of this year's farm bill, and that itÃâà...
San Angelo Standard Times
April 28, 2018
Ted Cruz, who is still only in his first term, is arguably the best-known political figure in Texas today. During his first year in the U.S. Senate, Cruz was the force behind shutting down the federal government over his opposition to the Affordable Care Act, and during his third year in the Senate, he launched hisÃâà...
Washington Examiner
April 26, 2018
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and House lawmakers upped the pressure on President Trump to make a decision soon on a way to save oil refineries from the costs of meeting the Environmental Protection Agency's ethanol mandate. “The president can solve this with the stroke of a pen,” the Texas RepublicanÃâà...
El Paso Times
April 26, 2018
Ted Cruz, who is still only in his first term, is arguably the best-known political figure in Texas today. During his first year in the U.S. Senate, Cruz was the force behind shutting down the federal government over his opposition to the Affordable Care Act, and during his third year in the Senate, he launched hisÃâà...
Texas Monthly
April 25, 2018
The Fire Ted Cruz committee—officially the FTC PAC—makes a point on its website to note that it is “not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.” And so far, there are only two major donors: $100,000 from investment banker Vaughn Vennerberg II of MorningStar Partners and $10,000 fromÃâà...
HPPR
April 21, 2018
The just-released Quinnipiac University survey of some 1,029 registered Texas voters says incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz can count on 47 percent of the vote, while Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke has 44 percent. That 3-point lead for Cruz makes this race too close to call, with an electionÃâà...
CNBC
April 18, 2018
Sen. Ted Cruz has only a narrow advantage over Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke in the Texas Senate race, according to a new poll. O'Rourke, a representative from Texas, is managing an enormous fundraising haul in the red state. The state's electoral dynamics have favored Republicans in recentÃâà...
The Hill (blog)
April 15, 2018
He's 'Lyin Ted!' I'm gonna start calling him 'Repeatin Don.' ” Trump, who used the similar nickname for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who ran against him in the 2016 Republican presidential primary, unleashed a barrage of attacks on Comey this week as excerpts from the former FBI chief's new book surfaced.
Washington Examiner
April 15, 2018
Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke outraised Republican Sen. Ted Cruz by $3.5 million during the first three months of the year. Cruz raised $3.2 million in the first quarter, according to his campaign, the Texas Tribune reports. O'Rourke, who is challenging Cruz for his Texas Senate seat, raised $6.7 million inÃâà...
Texas Tribune
April 14, 2018
In tallying Cruz's numbers, his team takes into account three groups: Ted Cruz for Senate, a re-election campaign committee; the Jobs, Freedom, and Security PAC, a leadership PAC; and Ted Cruz Victory Committee, a joint fundraising committee that sends contributions to the re-election campaign and hisÃâà...
KXAN.com
April 4, 2018
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Sen. Ted Cruz is traveling around the state in his campaign bus. KXAN spoke with him on his bus and we came to the topic of whether the Austin bomber should be called a domestic terrorist. "Unquestionably," said Cruz, the state's junior Republican senator. "I mean somebody setting offÃâà...
New York Times
April 4, 2018
HOUSTON — Senator Ted Cruz of Texas kicked off his re-election campaign this week with a new Texas-themed slogan and a new video, but something else that was entirely new went largely unspoken — a formidable and well-funded Democratic opponent. For the first time in Mr. Cruz's rise to politicalÃâà...
KTRE
April 3, 2018
More than 200 people attended a re-election campaign event for U.S. Senator Ted Cruz at a McGregor farm on Monday. The Texas Farm Bureau who is endorsing Cruz hosted the event at the farm of the McLennan County Farm Bureau President Rodney Schmalriede. During his speech, the senator,Ãâà...
NBCNews.com
April 3, 2018
Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, raised a whopping $6.7 million in the first quarter of 2018 for his campaign to unseat GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, O'Rourke's campaign announced Tuesday. The Democrat pledged to turn down contributions from political actions committees, but his uphill battle against one of theÃâà...
Texas Tribune
April 3, 2018
Ted Cruz, R-Texas, formally began his re-election campaign Monday, hitting the road extolling Lone Star State exceptionalism — especially in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. It was an ostensibly unifying message that complemented Cruz's new campaign slogan — “Tough as Texas” — and punctuated aÃâà...
Dallas News (blog)
March 26, 2018
WASHINGTON — After easily winning his primary and releasing a jingle needling his opponent, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is officially kicking off his re-election campaign. The Republican powerhouse, who will face Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke in November, will launch his general re-election bid nextÃâà...
Texas Tribune
March 25, 2018
Hosted in part by Texas High School Democrats and Republicans, the Day of Unity that was held here drew two of the state's most well-known partisans: GOP U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Democratic U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro of San Antonio. And it brought together the Democratic and Republican state partyÃâà...
Quartz
March 21, 2018
It is no secret that Donald Trump wasn't the first choice of the Republican party, or some of its most powerful donors. The powerful Mercer family originally backed Texas senator Ted Cruz for president in 2016. By January that year, the mega-donors, Cambridge Analytica backers, and Stephen BannonÃâà...
Texas Tribune
March 20, 2018
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential campaign relied on Cambridge Analytica for over $5.8 million in services, according to federal records. The data firm is now under fire for allegedly improperly harvesting information from Facebook. by Patrick Svitek and Haley Samsel March 20, 2018 Updated: 2 PM. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz at aÃâà...
CNN
March 7, 2018
Washington (CNN) Sen. Ted Cruz said Wednesday that his re-election campaign was "just having a sense of humor" when it released a radio ad teasing Rep. Beto O'Rourke, who won the Democratic primary, for going by Beto rather than his given name, Robert. "In terms of the jingle, some of it is justÃâà...
Heavy.com
March 6, 2018
The Texas primaries are underway today, and although the results won't be known until later tonight, both Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke are currently favored in their respective primary elections. But if the Republican and Democrat ultimately face each other in the Senate race, who would win? The latestÃâà...
Patch.com
March 6, 2018
Texas Republican U.S.Senate incumbent Ted Cruz will face Democrat challenger Beto O'Rourke after both won their respective party's primary ballot Tuesday night. The headliner on the Texas ballot was the race for the United States Senate seat held by incumbent Ted Cruz, the junior senator windingÃâà...
VICE News
March 6, 2018
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke is hoping to defeat Sen. Ted Cruz, and end a 30-year streak of statewide losses for his party, by taking his grassroots-driven campaign to every single one of Texas' 254 counties — including the deep-red ones that Democrats have ignored forÃâà...
Seattle Times
March 6, 2018
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has endorsed Republican Russ Fulcher in the Idaho's open 1st Congressional District. Cruz, a Republican from Texas, said in a statement distributed by Fulcher's campaign on Tuesday that voters should carefully consider their choices in the upcoming May primaryÃâà...
Texas Tribune
March 6, 2018
It's official: Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke will face off in the general election for U.S. Senate in Texas. Cruz, the Republican incumbent, and O'Rourke, a Democratic congressman from El Paso, were on track to easily capture their parties' nominations Tuesday night, according to early returns. Cruz, who isÃâà...
CNN
March 6, 2018
There probably won't be any surprises in the Senate race there: Incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Democrat Rep. Beto O'Rourke are clear favorites to win their respective primaries. So the bigger question after tonight is whether O'Rourke, who outraised Cruz last quarter and has been aggressivelyÃâà...
Vanity Fair
March 6, 2018
The unique unlikability of Ted Cruz was, for a time, an asset in deep-red Texas. Elected to the Senate in 2012 on a wave of Tea Party discontent, Cruz quickly established his outsider credentials by shutting down the government, grandstanding, maligning his colleagues, blithely stoking ignorance andÃâà...
McClatchy Washington Bureau
March 5, 2018
Days before the Texas primary, one of Sen. Ted Cruz's primary opponents was the target of the senator's own campaign calls. Rather than asking Stefano de Stefano, a Republican running against Cruz, for his support in the March 6 primary, the caller, paid by Cruz's campaign, repeatedly refused toÃâà...
TIME
December 31, 1999
For the better part of its first two hours, Mark Zuckerberg's testimony before Congress on Tuesday was a tedious affair. The problem, it seemed, were the senators questioning him. Rarely before has the senescence of this Senate — which, with an average age of 63, is the oldest in history — been soÃâà...
Daily Signal
December 31, 1999
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spared over political bias and censorship during the Senate's hearing Tuesday. Lawmakers questioned Zuckerberg about the social media company and its handling of user data. Cruz specifically asked if Facebook considers itself a neutralÃâà...
Texas Tribune
December 31, 1999
Ted Cruz tacked toward a different, earlier controversy, repeatedly asking Zuckerberg if Facebook considers "itself a neutral public forum." Zuckerberg said the company viewed the site as an open forum for ideas. Cruz then accused Facebook of engaging in "bias and censorship," quoting a 2016 GizmodoÃâà...
Dallas News
December 31, 1999
Updated at 5:30 p.m. with additional comment from Texas Sen. John Cornyn. WASHINGTON — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued a mea culpa in a Senate hearing Tuesday for a massive leak of personal data involving Cambridge Analytica, the voter-targeting firm used by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz andÃâà...
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