The Cruz campaign emailed to say they’ll be sending me the video file of the interview sometime in the next 24 hours, so here are a few race updates to tide you over until then.
Matt S. Dowling has his interview with Cruz up. I haven’t had a chance to watch all of it yet. Expect the setting to seem eerily familiar when you watch my interview…
And speaking on interviews with Cruz, here’s a snippet he did on a radio interview about the debt limit vote, which he was against.
David Dewhurst wasn’t wild about the debt deal either.
Nor was Tom Leppert.
Nor Glenn Addison.
Even Ricardo Sanchez and longshot Sean Hubbard are against it.
However, Elizabeth Ames Jones offered qualified support.
And naturally, after compiling all that, I found a roundup article on the same topic.
Yet another high-profile national conservative endorses Cruz, in this case Pennyslvania Senator Pat Toomey. Toomey will always have a place in the hearts of conservative everywhere for pushing the odious Arlen Specter out of the party and taking his Senate seat.
Cruz is also expected to get support from Sen. Mike Lee’s new Constitutional Conservatives Fund PAC.
Here’s a liberal handicapping the race. He had this to say about Cruz:
I first encountered Ted Cruz in Laredo in 2003. As the state Senate Democrats’ 46-day Albuquerque quorum break ended, they boarded a plane and went to Laredo to attend a hearing on the matter in Federal court. I accompanied them on the plane, and attended the hearing in the Laredo courtroom. Ted Cruz, then the Solicitor General, was the state’s lawyer in court that day. In other words – ironically – he was Dewhurst’s lawyer in the suit. I have never seen a better courtroom performance, before or since. He was articulate, passionate, and flat-out out-lawyered the Democrats’ legal team. By the end of that hearing, not only was I convinced that Cruz had won the day (which he did), but he was so utterly great that I myself had serious doubts as to the merits of the Democrats’ suit. I’ve been a begrudging admirer of Cruz’ skills ever since.
Polifact says that Tom Leppert calling David Dewhurst a “career politician” is false. Because he’s only been in politics since 1998, not “most of [his] working life.” While I’m not sure I agree with that line of thinking, at least it’s less risible than some of the arguments Polifact has made in the last year…
Tags: 2012 Election, David Dewhurst, Elections, Elizabeth Ames Jones, Glenn Addison, Matt S. Dowling, Pat Toomey, Republicans, Ricardo Sanchez, Sean Hubbard, Ted Cruz, Texas, Texas Senate Race, Tom Leppert
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