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Rafael Edward Cruz is an American politician and attorney who is the junior United States senator from Texas since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz was the solicitor general of Texas from 2003 to 2008. Since 2025, Cruz has chaired the Senate Commerce Committee.
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Born 22 December 1970 · Q2036942
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“halted the pipeline in its tracks.”
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“Every parent I know is concerned about the online threats to kids—from predators to videos promoting self-harm, risky behavior, or low self-esteem. Many families have suffered due to Big Tech”
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“We are carrying out military strikes today”
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“feeling the assault from the President, from the top on down, as we see—whether it”
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“the simple and undeniable fact is the overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats”
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Newsweek: Talarico Takes Aim at Ken Paxton and Ted Cruz in One Sharp Line
Operation Sports: Ted Cruz blasts Nike after its stock drops to a 12-year low, and reveals why he turned on the brand: '#GoWokeGoBroke'
The Katy News: Sens. Cruz and Kaine Lead Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Sanctions on Nicaragua
The Mirror US: Ted Cruz labeled 'embarrassing' by Fox News viewers over 8-word Nike diss
The Nerd Stash: Texas Rep. James Talarico Unloads on Ted Cruz & Ken Paxton After GOP Attacks His Masculinity: 'He'll Steal Your Pen'
Crypto Briefing: Ted Cruz hails $3B Israeli investment, 4,200 jobs boost in Texas
The American Bazaar: Ted Cruz targets Nike as shares fall, criticizes sales to ‘American flag’ haters
We Got This Covered: 'Partnership worth growing': Ted Cruz celebrates as Israeli companies allegedly pour $3.2 billion into Texas
News of the United States - NOTUS: Dana Milbank: Ted Cruz Threw an Islamophobic Party — And Nobody Showed Up - News of the United States
eciks.org: Ted Cruz’s college sports bill stalls in Senate, vote pushed to September
SSBCrack: Ted Cruz Critiques Nike as Stock Hits 12-Year Low
Yahoo Finance: Ted Cruz takes victory lap as iconic American brand's stock plunges to 12-year low
Woodlands Online: OPINION: Open letter to Senator Ted Cruz and Governor Greg Abbott
We Got This Covered: Nike's stock hit a 12-year low. Ted Cruz says blame the company's 'America-hate' marketing: 'Turns out I wasn't the only one'
bizpacreview.com: Ted Cruz looks at Nike’s stock plunge and says: You did this to yourselves
Mediaite: Ted Cruz Dunks on Nike for Stock Crash, Says Marketing Plan Was Built on ‘America-Hate’
Houston Chronicle: Ted Cruz should help release $1.35 billion in global health funding
Oneindia: Ted Cruz EXPOSES Muslim Brotherhood Network Behind El-Sayed’s Political Rise CHILLING Senate Hearing
ABC13 Houston: This Week in Texas: Senator Ted Cruz, Harris County Budget, Flock Cameras
Fox News: Ted Cruz, los conservadores responden después de que Talarico criticara la enseñanza relacionada con la Biblia en los colegios calificándola de «propaganda»
El Norte: Arremete Ted Cruz contra... ¡Elmo de Plaza Sésamo!
Central Oregon Daily: Sen. Ted Cruz suggests Katy Perry is out of Justin Trudeau's league
Mshale: LIVE: Ted Cruz Rallies With Rick Jackson Hunting Hills (Djcc4QLZ0p)
Published video “Hidden in Plain Sight: Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood Network in America | Witness Testimony”.
Published video “Hidden in Plain Sight: Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood Network in America | Witness Questioning”.
Yahoo: Ted Cruz Just Made A Totally Inaccurate Claim About The COVID Vaccine
Published video “Sen Cruz Urges The House To Pass Trey's Law”.
Published video “Hidden in Plain Sight: Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood Network in America”.
Published video “Sen. Ted Cruz: How America Beats China in the AI Race”.
Published video “Sen. Ted Cruz Calls for Commonsense Reforms to Prevent Midair Collisions”.
Published video “Sen Ted Cruz Presses Experts on Autonomous Trucks and Freight Fraud”.
Published video “Sen. Cruz Highlights Bipartisan Solution to Save College Athletics | Protect College Sports Act”.
Published video “No Sure Bets: Protecting Sports Integrity in America”.
Public attention spiked: 9,146 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.8× the usual 2,417, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: He was defeated, didn’t retire
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Published video “Senator Cruz Delivers Remarks on the Senate Floor for TREY's Law”.
Snopes rated the claim “In 2016, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, then a Republican presidential candidate, said, "We're liable to wake up one morning and Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark."” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A video authentically depicts a crowd booing U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, off stage for his pro-Israel comments.” True.
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Claimed: “Democrats are “dishonestly sending around a video from 2017” claiming it was an Oct. 18 ‘No Kings’ rally in Boston.” — rated False by PolitiFact.
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That he first ran for Senate in 2012 "with the stated intention of being the leading defender of Israel in the United States Senate"
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“with the stated intention of being the leading defender of Israel in the United States Senate”
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Drafted and led the effort to pass the TAKE IT DOWN Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump
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Career landmark: United States senator (2025).
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“I think it is very much in the interest of America to see regime change”
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Career landmark: United States senator (2023–2025).
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PolitiFact rated the claim ““Ted Cruz erupts as FBI director tries to defend Biden over Mar-a-Lago raid” in video.” False.
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Cruz voted against Bernie Sanders's proposed measure for the United States Innovation and Competition Act, which promised to fund semiconductor manufacturers amid a shortage of their products during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Cruz sharply criticized the Chinese government for its detention of Houston resident Mark Swidan, who had been held for over ten years
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Putin announced that the pipelaying for first line of the Nord Stream II was fully completed
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Cruz voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the riot
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fact checker rated the claim “Ted Cruz stated that owning a gun should be as easy as owning a car.” fake.
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During the debate about whether Congress should accept Arizona's electoral votes, Cruz said that 39% of Americans believed the 2020 presidential election was rigged, but that "I am not arguing for setting aside the resul
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Career landmark: United States senator (2021–2023).
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The Chinese government sanctioned Cruz and 10 other Americans for "behaving badly on Hong Kong-related issues"
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The Chinese government sanctioned Cruz and three other U
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Campaign: 2020 presidential election.
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“I am not arguing for setting aside the result of this election”
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PolitiFact rated the claim “"In 2013, (Ted Cruz) didn’t support (a border security bill). I did. In 2013, we passed a bill here in a bipartisan way. It got 68 votes. It had $46 billion in border security."” This is True.
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“We should never be afraid to tell the truth, and alliances grounded in lies are themselves unsustainable.”
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Career landmark: United States senator (2019–2021).
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Cruz defeated O'Rourke by a slim margin, 50
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows thousands of people gathered for a political rally featuring Senator Ted Cruz and President Donald Trump in Texas.” Miscaptioned.
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Claimed: “Says Beto O’Rourke described police as “modern-day Jim Crow.”” — rated Mostly False by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “Says Beto O’Rourke is "the only candidate to the U.S. Senate to call for" impeaching President Donald Trump.” — rated False by PolitiFact.
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And he easily won the Republican nomination with over 80% of the vote
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“President Trump is doing what he was elected to do: disrupt the status quo.”
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As of 2018, according to OpenSecrets, Cruz's net worth was more than $3.1 million.
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Cruz voted in favor of a House resolution condemning UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which condemned Israeli settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories as a violation of international law
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Cruz was one of 22 senators to sign a letter addressed to Trump urging him to withdraw from the Paris Agreement
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Career landmark: United States senator (2017–2019).
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“via The Washington Post, June 1, 2017 Here's the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz. I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz. Al Franken, former Senator, in his autobiography Al Franken, Giant of the Senate”
Campaign ended: 2016 presidential election.
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Publicly endorsed Trump for president
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Claimed: “"Here, we have Thanksgiving, we have Christmas, we have the 4th of July. Every year in Iran, they celebrate Death to America day."” — rated Mostly False by PolitiFact.
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Snopes rated the claim “Ted Cruz blamed God for his failed presidential campaign on Twitter.” False.
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Cruz won the Wisconsin primary with 48
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Cruz won the Idaho primary with 45% of vote—defeating Trump by 17% and earning his seventh statewide victory
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Super Tuesday, Cruz won Texas by 17%, along with Alaska and Oklahoma, providing him with four state primary victories total
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Cruz won the Iowa caucuses
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Cruz sought the Republican presidential nomination, emerging as a serious competitor to Trump in a primary marked by intense and often personal exchanges
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Campaign: 2016 presidential election.
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“s nominee to the Supreme Court on the grounds that”
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Claimed: “Mr. Cruz promises a simple, flat 10 percent income tax.” — rated It’s not that simple. by The New York Times.
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Cruz started his 2016 presidential campaign for the Republican primaries and caucuses, in a morning speech delivered at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia
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“will make the Obama administration the world”
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Career landmark: United States senator (2015–2017).
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After the Supreme Court found same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional in Obergefell, he called the decision "the very definition of tyranny", accused the court of judicial activism, and said it was "among the darkest hou
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Cruz voted for the USA Freedom Act, which reauthorized the USA Patriot Act but reformed some of its provisions
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In the wake of severe flooding in Texas, Cruz supported federal aid funding; and in 2017, called for federal intervention as Hurricane Harvey approached the coast of Texas
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And that he supported legislation that would allow the Government Accountability Office to evaluate the Federal Reserve's monetary policy
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Starts with "Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S
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Cruz spoke at the Freedom Summit, an event organized by Americans for Prosperity and Citizens United
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Told the Zionist Organization of America, "standing for Israel is a deep passion of mine"
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Gave the keynote speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington DC
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“between one man and one woman”
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Career landmark: United States senator (2013–2015).
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Called Republicans he considered insufficiently resistant to Obama's proposals a "surrender caucus"
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McCain denounced Cruz's reference to Nazis when discussing the Affordable Care Act
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Proposed the abolition of the IRS and the implementation of a flat tax "where the average American can fill out taxes on a postcard"
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Cruz voted against a bill to provide a package of federal aid to the Northern East Coast for recovery from Hurricane Sandy because, he said, the bill was "filled with unrelated pork" and "two-thirds of that bill had noth
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Cruz said he wanted marriage to be legally defined as only "between one man and one woman", but also that the legality of same-sex marriage should be left to each state to decide
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Cruz is the first Hispanic American to be a U
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“It's not easy to tick me off... I don't get angry often. But you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids; that'll do it every time. Donald, you're a sniveling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone.”
“Donald has a very unfortunate habit. When he gets scared, he lashes out... And he insults and attacks whoever is standing near him... Donald does seem to have an issue with women... Donald doesn't like strong women. Strong women scare Donald.”
“Whether it's in Ferguson or Baltimore, the response from senior officials, the president or the attorney general, is to vilify law enforcement. That's wrong. It’s fundamentally wrong. It’s endangering all of our safety and security.”
“Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.”
“I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation.”
“Let me be clear: Donald Trump may be a rat, but I have no desire to copulate with him.”
Texas Lawyer named him one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century
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Abandoned a bid for state attorney general when incumbent Attorney General Greg Abbott, who hired Cruz as solicitor general, decided to run for reelection
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American Lawyer magazine named Cruz one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America, and The National Law Journal named him one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America
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Cruz joined the Houston office of the Philadelphia-based law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, often representing corporate clients
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Cruz was involved in the high-profile case surrounding a challenge to the constitutionality of public schools' requiring students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance (including the words "under God", legally a part of the
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Career landmark: Solicitor General of Texas (2003–2008).
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While Cruz was Texas solicitor general, the Texas attorney general's office declined to defend Texas's sodomy law in Lawrence v
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott appointed Cruz to be the solicitor general of Texas
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“We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights.”
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Texas attorney general Greg Abbott appointed Cruz solicitor general, a position he held until 2008
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To handle appeals involving the Texas state government, but Abbott hired Cruz with the idea that Cruz would take a "leadership role in the United States in articulating a vision of strict constructionism"
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As a domestic policy adviser, advising then-governor Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform
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Cruz was briefly one of the attorneys who represented Representative John Boehner during his litigation against Representative Jim McDermott over the alleged leak of an illegal recording of a phone conversation whose par
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Studied at Harvard Law School, Juris Doctor (1995).
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With a Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude
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Studied at Princeton University, Bachelor of Arts (1992).
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“rights, and that the last two items in the Bill of Rights offer an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz graduated from Princeton in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude. Cruz then attended Harvard Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. He was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, an executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review. Referring to Cruz”
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Cruz's father left the family and moved to Texas
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“two mathematicians/computer programmers”
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And became a naturalized United States citizen in 2005
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At Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to Eleanor Elizabeth (née Darragh) Wilson and Rafael Cruz
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Born 1970-12-22.
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To attend the University of Texas at Austin and obtained political asylum in the United States after his four-year student visa expired
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