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| Tea Party Agitator Aims for White House: Ted Cruz
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 23-March-2015
11:54:0 AM |
| Once reviled by fellow Republicans as a "wacko bird" for leading the US government to a 2013 shutdown, resurgent Senator Ted Cruz has turned his Constitution-above-all conservatism into a Tea Party quest for the White House.
As a freshman in the upper chamber of Congress, the 44-year-old Texas lawmaker - an intellectual proponent of a grassroots movement that has simmered for years under the Republican mainstream - has just two years under his belt in Washington.
But in the 2016 presidential race now underway - Cruz on today became the first major candidate to announce he is running - that outsider status could play well with the right-wing base furious with what he derides as the "mushy middle" GOP establishment unwilling to play hardball against US President Barack Obama.
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For Democrats, Cruz is a dangerous demagogue they love to hate, while supporters elevate him as the thinking man's champion of the common folk who came to Washington leading the charge by the ultraconservative Tea Party faction.
He has since become the movement's north star, but critics blast him as a posterboy for Washington gridlock.
Cruz has angered his elders in both parties for showing little deference to seniority and taking over the spotlight from more experienced political stalwarts.
A master orator with a clear sense of mission, he appears to revel in defying the Washington establishment.
He insists the government has wrecked the economy, infringed on religious liberty, put constitutional rights "under assault," overtaxed Americans and sought to take away their guns.
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