Ted Cruz
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Ted Cruz Calculates a Path to the Nomination
If America's 58th presidential election validates Ted Cruz's audacious "base plus" strategy, he will have refuted assumptions about the importance of independent "swing" voters and the inertia of many missing voters. Critics say his plan for pursuing the Republican nomination precludes winning the presidency.
Ted Cruz Is Right on Planned Parenthood Funding
Ted Cruz is once again talking about government shutdown. This time it is about funding for Planned Parenthood. And once again it is not going over well with some in his party. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has called a strategy to withhold funding for the federal government unless taxpayer funds are pulled from Planned Parenthood an "exercise in futility."
Can the GOP at Least Slow Iran Deal?
The review clock never began because Obama ignored the law.
The Racing Form, Third Edition
Both presidential nomination contests having been scrambled by recent events — the FBI taking control of Hillary Clinton's private email server and a raucous, roiling GOP debate — the third edition of the Racing Form is herewith rushed into print. Legal disclaimer: This column is for betting purposes only. What follows is analysis — scrubbed, as thoroughly as a Clinton server, of advocacy. (Unless I simply can't resist.) *Hillary Clinton:* Ever since her disastrous book-launch performance, I've thought her both (1) a weak candidate and (2) the inevitable Democratic nominee.
Best of the First Republican Confab
The "debates" Thursday were endurance exercises, given the number of candidates on stage.
Ted Cruz Was Right
Last Friday, in a two-pronged strategy aimed at challenging the odious status quo of the Establishment GOP and promoting his presidential candidacy, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) "went postal" on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). "The majority leader looked at me and said there is no deal there is no deal, there is no deal, there is no deal. Like St. Peter, he said it three times," Cruz thundered, referring to McConnell's assurance that there was no pact in the works to revive the federal Export-Import Bank, even though there was. That was the specific bit that set Cruz off. But he far better articulated the essence of what drives millions of American nuts...
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