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| US Republican Ted Cruz announces he is running for president | |
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| The Texas Republican Ted Cruz has announced that he is running for president in 2016. | |
| The conservative senator became the first candidate to declare an intention to run for the White House when he said on Twitter that he was officially in the race. | |
| Cruz, a leading conservative who was elected to the US Senate in 2012, is slated to make a speech on Monday at Liberty University in Virginia where he will flesh out his campaign platform. | |
| “You’re going to want to be there,” a member of Cruz’s staff told the Daily Beast website, while declining to reveal the specific nature of the address. | |
| Cruz apparently hopes to get the jump on several leading Republicans who are expected to enter the race in the coming weeks: former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and two Senate colleagues, Kentucky’s Rand Paul and Florida’s Marco Rubio. | |
| Recent Republican history, however, could work against Cruz and other deeply conservative candidates as they battle through state-by-state primaries and caucuses. | |
| That selection process is dominated by the most conservative Republican voters and can lead to the nomination of a candidate who is not acceptable to more moderate Republicans and independent voters. | |
| Cruz, 44, is the son of an American mother and Cuban-born father and would be the nation’s first Hispanic president. | |
| He has considerable appeal among the Republican party’s base of conservative voters. After his election to the Senate in 2012, the former Texas solicitor general quickly established himself as an uncompromising conservative willing to take on Democrats and fellow Republicans alike. | |
| Criticised by members of his own party at times, he won praise from ultraconservative tea party activists in 2013 for leading a 16-day government shutdown in an unsuccessful drive to repeal president Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. | |
| Last weekend the senator was in New Hampshire, a state crucial to presidential aspirants because of its early primary. Bush and Walker were also there, as well as former governor of Texas Rick Perry. | |
| Cruz has also spent time in Iowa, another key early state. | Cruz has also spent time in Iowa, another key early state. |
| In an interview on MSNBC last week, Cruz said he had been getting “very encouraging” support regarding a presidential run. | In an interview on MSNBC last week, Cruz said he had been getting “very encouraging” support regarding a presidential run. |
| The senator was born in Canada, but two lawyers who represented presidents from both parties at the Supreme Court recently wrote in the Harvard Law Review that Cruz meets the constitutional requirement to run. | |