Cruz Stock Soars with Tea Party, Sours in U.S. Congress
By Julie Bykowicz and Heidi Przybyla - Oct 17, 2013
Texas Senator Ted Cruz stayed true to his campaign mantra “stand and fight” yesterday as he stood amid a crowd of reporters and vowed to keep pressing to dismantle President Barack Obama’s health-care law.
“This fight, this debate will continue until collectively the American people can make D.C. listen,” said Cruz, as other Republican senators streamed out of a meeting lamenting the political damage wrought by an unwinnable showdown with the White House championed by one of their newest members.
Cruz, 42, is emerging from what Arizona Republican Senator John McCain called a “shameful chapter” in the Senate’s history largely unscathed in the eyes of his donors and Republican activists.
“To the conservative movement in America, he is what courage looks like,” said Matt Hoskins, executive director of the Senate Conservatives Fund, which promotes Tea Party-backed candidates who favor smaller government.
Cruz, a lawyer who argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court prior to his 2012 election, is counted among prospective Republican Party presidential contenders in 2016. His take-no-prisoners approach could play well in Iowa, where caucuses typically start the nomination process, said David Yepsen, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and a former political reporter in Iowa for 30 years.
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