“A new Republican Congress is taking over. Sen. Ted Cruz has been appointed tooverseeing NASA in Congress. He says he wants NASA to focus on finding aliens so he can deport them.” WantHas BeensFocusRepublicanFindingsCongressAliensNasaCruz Author:Conan O'Brien
“Republican Ted Cruz announced that he will run for president in 2016. So finally, Carnival is no longer the most dangerous cruise in America.” RunningAmericaPresidentDangerousRepublicanCruiseCruzCarnivals Author:Jimmy Fallon
“This Ted Cruz guy, I mean, he incurred the wrath, really, of his own party. They don't like him. Democrats hate him. Independents hate him. Republicans hate him. Even Miley Cyrus, he's the one guy she refuses to lick.” MeanGuyHatePartyRepublicanDemocratRefuseWrathCruzHate HimMiley Author:Bill Maher
“[Ted] Cruz is not at all popular in the Senate. Republicans say he may be too disliked to be a nominee. And there is a real concern about that. I think the one way to go after Trump maybe is go after him as a closet Democrat. That he has supported Democrats in the past.” ThinkingWayMayRealPastTrumpRepublicanConcernDemocratOne WaySenateClosetsCruz Author:Dalia Mogahed
“You have two people who I would classify as extremists. Donald Trump because of his behavior and Ted Cruz because of his views, leading the Republican Party.” PeopleTwoViewsPartyTrumpRepublicanBehaviorRepublican PartyExtremistCruz Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“It is highly likely that one of the two of them [ Donald Trump and Ted Cruz ] is going to be the nominee. This is a - look here, what is this - what this is really is a prescription for remaking the Republican Party.” LooksTwoPartyTrumpRepublicanRepublican PartyPrescriptionsCruz Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“Donald Trump and Ted Cruz on the Republican side. On the Democratic side, he sees Hillary Clinton struggling a bit... And Mayor Bloomberg sees a big lane in the middle for a moderate former Republican who believes in gun control and climate change.” BelieveBigsBitsSidesStruggleMiddleTrumpRepublicanGunDemocraticClintonClimateClimate ChangeFormerGun ControlModeratesLanesMayorsCruz Author:Don Gonyea
“The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements.” KindDecisionParticularRepublicanPicksPoisonDislikeEstablishmentSenateCruzGopEndorsements Author:Mara Liasson
“Republicans like Trent Lott, saying [Donald] Trump would be more flexible [then Ted Cruz].” Would BeTrumpRepublicanFlexibleCruz Author:Mara Liasson
“Republicans think that [Ted] Cruz would be like Barry Goldwater. He'd lose in a landslide and pull the party down with him. They'd lose Senate and House seats.” ThinkingWould BeHouseLosesPartyRepublicanSeatsSenateCruzLandslidesParty Down Author:Mara Liasson
“As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick Stalin, meaning Ted Cruz because he's more predictable. So there's real civil war inside the Republican Party.” IfsSaidWarRealChoicesPartyRepublicanIntellectualPicksConservativeCivil WarRepublican PartyPredictableCruz Author:Mara Liasson
“The former secretary of State is the nominee. She is also the Willie Sutton of classified data. And there is going to be a long-term effort of Republicans, whether it's Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, or Ted Cruz, to paint her into the corner.” LongStatesTermEffortTrumpRepublicanPaintCornersFormerDataLong TermSecretaryCruzMarcos Author:Hugh Hewitt
“There's a reason [Donald]Trump and [Ted] Cruz are one and two and that they take nearly 50 percent of the Republican electorate away in these polls because there's real palpable anger out there and frustration and a feeling of betrayal.” TwoRealReasonFeelingsTrumpRepublicanPercentBetrayalFrustrationPollsCruzElectorate Author:Sean Hannity
“We got the clearest picture of Donald Trump`s weaknesses and liabilities in a general election. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz finally gave up on trying to convince Republican primary voters that Trump is not a real conservative, attacks that have failed to resonate.” TryingRealTrumpRepublicanWeaknessElectionConservativePrimariesConvinceVotersGave UpLiabilityCruzMarcosGeneral Elections Author:Chris Hayes
“I think Senator [Ted] Cruz's strategy is that there's 4.5 million, 5 million Republicans that didn't vote in 2012. This is the conventional wisdom and they didn't vote because they didn't like the nominee, wasn't conservative enough, or there was a religious component. Who knows what?” ThinkingKnowsEnoughReligiousMillionsRepublicanVoteStrategyConservativeConventionalSenatorsComponentsCruzConventional Wisdom Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You can't control Ted Cruz for instance. No one has suggested you could do that and Marco Rubio, everyone tried to stop Marco Rubio from going against a sitting Republican governor in Florida. He did it anyway and won.” RepublicanSittingInstanceGovernorsFloridaCruzMarcos Author:Mitt Romney
“I did not know in the beginning how important the trip would be but we knew that Iran was in the crosshairs of the Neo-Conservative movement. And when you listen to Mr. Ted Cruz, the Republican presidential hopeful, and when you listen to Mr. Marco Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, when you listen to their language, it says to me that they are agents of the Neo-Conservative strategy.” KnowsImportantWould BeLanguageMovementRepublicanStrategyConservativeAgentsPresidentialCandidatesHopefulIranCruzMarcosPresidential Candidate Author:Louis Farrakhan
“[Donald] Trump won fair and square! He got 13.3 million votes. He won all over the country. He won when the race was crowded and when it was a one on one against Ted Cruz. There's just no reasonable way to keep Trump from the nomination while insisting that the will of the Republican voter is being respected.” WayCountryRaceMillionsTrumpRepublicanFairsVoteReasonableVotersSquaresCrowdedNominationsCruzInsistingOne On One Author:Christopher Michael Cillizza
“Due to the major demographic changes we have gone through in the last few years in this country, we will be a majority/minority nation and there are a large number of people who do not like that. Donald Trump has tapped into those people's fears because he comes from the extreme right wing part of the Republican Party, as does Ted Cruz. They believe that we should cut taxes to wealthy Americans and enforce anti immigrant laws. They don't believe in Education or Social Security, they would end it and change it and privatize it.” PeopleShouldYearsBelieveDoeEndsCountryLastsLawNationsSocialPartyNumbersGoneCuttingSecurityTrumpRepublicanTaxesMajorsMajorityWingsDon't BelieveExtremesDuesMinoritiesImmigrantsWealthyRepublican PartySocial SecurityRight WingLarge NumbersDemographicsCruz Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“I'm beginning to think [Ted] Cruz had a good convention, that if [Donald] Trump goes down, Cruz is pretty well positioned to be the Republican major figure in four, six or even within two years.” IfsThinkingYearsWellsTwoFourFiguresTrumpRepublicanSixMajorsTwo YearsConventionsCruz Author:David Brooks
“If Donald Trump does lose, being revealed as this bizarre personality, Ted Cruz is not going to be what Republicans are looking for in 2020.” IfsDoeLosesPersonalityTrumpRepublicanBizarreCruz Author:Mark Shields
“It`s been a long and tumultuous relationship between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz that started off more or less as allies during the Republican primary. As Trump took the early lead in polls, Cruz stuck with the strategy of drafting off of the front-runner waiting for the moment to make his move.” LongMomentsMovingWaitingFrontsTrumpRepublicanStrategyStuckPrimariesAlliesRunnersPollsCruzLead InDrafting Author:Chris Hayes
“[Donald Trump] spreading preposterous rumors that [Ted] Cruz`s father had connections to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of JFK. That put a bit of a damper on the bromance ultimately culminating in Cruz`s epic non-endorsement at the Republican convention.” FatherBitsTrumpRepublicanConnectionsConventionsEpicRumorAssassinationCruzEndorsementsHarveyBromance Author:Chris Hayes
“I thought it was remarkable in July [2016] when he pointedly declined to endorse Ted Cruz at the Republican convention, because I thought that was not in his political best interest.” PoliticalInterestRepublicanRemarkableConventionsJulyCruz Author:Josh Barro
“It`s basically a united [Republican ] party behind [Donald Trump] and Cruz`s numbers in Texas were plummeting and he was facing a possible primary challenge and this cements that this is the party of Trump.” ChallengesUnitedPartyNumbersBehindsTrumpRepublicanPrimariesTexasRepublican PartyCementCruz Author:Chris Hayes
“From where I sit, it's a superb cabinet [for Donald Trump] so far. A lot of these choices could have been made by Ted Cruz. So you're going to have this shotgun marriage between a very orthodox Republican cabinet and a very unorthodox.” Has BeensMadeChoicesTrumpRepublicanOrthodoxCould Have BeenCabinetsCruzSuperbShotgunsUnorthodox Author:Rich Lowry
“[Donald] Trump wanted the nomination, and all these other Republicans and their supporters didn't want Trump to have the nomination. So who became the villains? What Trump wanted became the story. "Will he get it? Will Trump get to 1,237?" Did not Ted Cruz become a villain in the middle of this by virtue of trying to stop the hero by getting delegates in all of the state conventions?” WantTryingStatesStoriesWantedVirtueMiddleTrumpHeroRepublicanVillainConventionsSupporterNominationsCruzDelegates Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There are establishment Republicans who think Ted Cruz is not a likable guy. I don't understand that. I've had occasion to meet him twice, but just watching him on television, he's not unlikable, he's an dislikable.” ThinkingGuyTelevisionRepublicanOccasionsEstablishmentCruz Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think Ted Cruz is a very mean-spirited guy. You can see it from how the Republican Party responds to him.” ThinkingMeanGuyPartyRepublicanRepublican PartySpiritedCruzVery MeanMean Spirited Author:Hillary Clinton