Iran hawks in Congress have leveraged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s interest in a Senate run to win a key concession from the Trump administration that could help kill the nuclear deal with Tehran.
Read moreRepublican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the Federal Election Commission’s cap on how much money candidates can reimburse themselves for loans to their campaign, claiming it violates his right to free speech.
Read moreIn Houston Monday night to support Ted Cruz’s campaign to retain his seat in the U.S. Senate, President Donald Trump called Cruz’s Democratic opponent Beto O’Rourke a “stone-cold phony” who “wants to take away your guns.”
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Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke came out swinging against Senator Ted Cruz Tuesday night in a feisty debate that veered from hot button foreign and domestic topics to civility in politics.
Read moreBeto O’Rourke’s long, zig-zag campaign for Senate through all 254 Texas counties recalls for many Texans the populist appeal of the state’s last Democratic governor, the late Ann Richards.
Read moreDemocratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke raised $38.1 million in the third round of fundraising, more than tripling U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s haul in a Senate race considered to be one of the hottest midterm contests in the nation.
Read moreA spokesperson for Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz said Tuesday that his Houston campaign headquarters was locked down for several hours because of a suspicious package, which later tested negative for hazardous substances.
Read moreA new Emerson College poll found Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz now holds just a single-point lead over Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke in a Senate race considered to be one of the hottest midterm contests in the nation.
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Senator Ted Cruz lauded his party’s accomplishments under President Donald Trump at the Republican Party of Texas convention Saturday, but warned delegates they would need to unify to defeat “the hard left” in November and keep the state “bright red.”
Read moreThe 2018 midterm election for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas is in full swing, and Democrat Beto O’Rourke raised the stakes Tuesday in his race against Republican Ted Cruz by announcing he has pulled in nearly $7 million so far this year.
Read moreThree-term Congressman Beto O’Rourke said he outraised Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz by $500,000 last cycle, the latest step in O’Rourke’s uphill battle to become the first Democrat to win statewide office in Texas since the 1990s.
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Sen. Ted Cruz says an aide was responsible for the “like” that caused a pornographic post to briefly appear on Cruz’s Twitter feed overnight.
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Sen. Ted Cruz told attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday that he believes there will be another vacancy on the Supreme Court by this summer, a development that would presumably tilt the court decidedly to the right.
Read moreBernie Sanders and Ted Cruz – two of the country’s most diametrically opposed senators – hit the debate floor Tuesday night to spar over efforts to repeal the federal health care law.
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