| With Cruz in, race for GOP right heats up Washington Post, by Philip Rucker and Robert Costa |
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| Ted Cruz’s splashy entry into the 2016 race Monday intensifies the early battle to consolidate conservative voters who are intent on denying the Republican Party establishment yet another presidential nomination. In a primary fight more up for grabs than Republicans have seen in a generation, at least a half-dozen credible contenders are likely to join Cruz in competing for the hearts of conservatives. They face a labyrinth of tests of ideology and temperament, on talk radio and at tea party and faith forums, in a melee to become the hard right’s standard-bearer. Cruz, a 44-year-old senator from Texas whose combative
Mr. Gossip Are we ready for a Republican president? Do we need a Republican to get us out of this exhausting deficit? Or do we need the Clinton’s back in the White House to make the FIX? |
