Briscoe Cain, a Houston-area Republican who, like Cruz, is often a thorn in the side of his own party’s leadership, said the senator should take pride that “he is hated and despised in D.C.” “They’re angry and they hate the president." “There’s no doubt that the hard left is energized,” he told the USA Today Network during a bumpy ride aboard his campaign’s 2004 Ford Fleetwood Jamboree motor home dubbed the Texas Cruzer. Senator from TexasĪnd it was committed but largely invisible conservatives like Willeford and McSwain who powered the Cruz juggernaut six years ago. More: What you need to know about Ted Cruz, U.S. He went from an asterisk in the polls to knocking off a well-known Republican who until then had an unbroken string of four consecutive victories in statewide elections. “We have a right to expect that from our elected leaders, but not all of them do.”īorn Rafael Edward Cruz in Canada to a Cuban immigrant father and an American mother, the 47-year-old is an Ivy League-trained lawyer. Cruz in 2012 was an unknown but fire-breathing product of the tea party wave that two years earlier had turned conventional politics upside down. “He does what he says he’s going to do,” said McSwain, whose 12-year-old daughter took a break from her home school studies to have her picture taken with Cruz. And like she did two years ago in the Texas Republican primary, she hopes she’ll get the opportunity to vote for him for president in the future. “I am a very conservative man,” he added for emphasis.Īt a campaign event the next day in Corpus Christi, Larissa McSwain said she was part of the tea party movement that propelled Cruz to victory in 2012. What I was going to say was, 'I don't agree with everyone 110 percent - except Ted Cruz.’ "I may not agree with everyone (in the GOP) 110 percent," Willeford said he told Cornyn. "But I didn't get to finish. John Cornyn when the subject turned to politics.
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