{"id":1637446,"date":"2022-09-09T09:48:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T13:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1637446"},"modified":"2022-09-09T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T14:04:44","slug":"ted-cruz-plots-a-2024-bid-even-as-he-waits-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-plots-a-2024-bid-even-as-he-waits-on-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz plots a 2024 bid even as he waits on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fted-cruz-plots-a-2024-bid-even-as-he-waits-on-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1637446&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/09100353\/90-149\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>LONDONDERRY, New Hampshire \u2014<\/b> Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) shook hands and posed for pictures with the crowd for an hour, then grabbed a stool at the bar at American Legion Post 27 and joined everyone for a beer.<\/p>\n<p>This is what running for president looks like in New Hampshire, the host of the second nominating contest and the first traditional primary on the Republican Party\u2019s quadrennial nominating calendar. And Cruz, the runner-up for the GOP nod in 2016 (the last time the party did not field an incumbent), conceded he has not ruled out mounting a second campaign \u2014 even if former President Donald Trump enters the race.<\/p>\n<p>But the senator also confirmed in a brief interview with the <i>Washington Examiner <\/i>Thursday evening he will make no decision about 2024 until he knows Trump\u2019s plans. Any Republican mulling a White House bid who says otherwise (and at the very least, that includes former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo) is, Cruz insists, being dishonest about his or her internal deliberations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of candidates out there feeling their oats and boasting, \u2018I\u2019m running no matter what. I don\u2019t care what Donald Trump says.\u2019 Anyone who says that is lying. That\u2019s an idiotic statement for someone to make who\u2019s actually thinking about running,\u201d Cruz said after headlining a rally for Karoline Leavitt, the Republican candidate for New Hampshire\u2019s 1st Congressional District, before a couple of hundred voters and activists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what Trump\u2019s going to decide \u2014 nobody does. Anybody who tells you they do is making things up,\u201d the senator said. \u201cThe whole world will change depending on what Donald Trump decides. That\u2019s true for every candidate. That\u2019s true of every potential candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/political-musical-chairs\">POLITICAL MUSICAL CHAIRS<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Trump has given all indications he intends to run.<\/p>\n<p>Even before the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the former president\u2019s residence and private social club in Palm Beach, Florida, as part of a federal investigation into the alleged mishandling of classified documents since leaving the White House, he was toying with announcing a campaign before the midterm elections. Top Republicans were so concerned Trump might pull the trigger this month or next that they worked <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/trump-announcing-2024-bid-before-midterms-could-backfire\">furiously<\/a> to talk him out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond polling that shows Trump being a prohibitive favorite at the outset of any primary, it\u2019s easy to understand why Cruz is hesitating on a 2024 bid despite the fact that he loves campaigning and desperately wants to run for president again. After all, Republicans have a history of nominating previous runners-up, as they did in 1980 with Ronald Reagan, 2008 with John McCain, and 2012 with Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Trump\u2019s flaws and downsides, and despite the party losing the House, Senate, and White House on his watch, he remains an iconic Republican figure with a hold on the imagination of many grassroots conservatives. Cruz understands that.<\/p>\n<p>But just in case he needed reminding: One of his bartenders at the American Legion, a hangout for military veterans, in this conservative corner of southern New Hampshire was sporting a \u201cTrump 2024\u201d T-shirt that seemed to loom like a shadow over the senator as he sipped his beer. Peter Duffy, 60, a Republican voter and volunteer for Leavitt\u2019s campaign, illustrated the Trump factor another way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love Ted Cruz,\u201d he said after the senator delivered a rousing 20-minute speech for Leavitt, a former Trump administration official, that had the crowd cheering and laughing. \u201cTed Cruz is very intelligent. He is very sophisticated. He knows the law, first of all. He\u2019s very pro-American. And I believe him \u2014 bottom line.\u201d So, would Duffy like to see Cruz run for president again?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to see Ted Cruz [become] attorney general of the United States,\u201d he said. Duffy\u2019s preference against President Joe Biden, or whomever the Democrats nominate, is Trump. \u201cNobody can do it like he can do it. And I believe he will [run]. And I believe he will win, no doubt about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Cruz is undecided about running for president, he is not undecided about running. <\/p>\n<p>The senator <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/ted-cruz-appeals-grassroots-conservatives-gop-insiders-2024\">will run<\/a> for reelection in Texas in 2024 if he does not seek to lead the Republican Party\u2019s national ticket and has spent the past nearly two years preparing to field a $100 million campaign that makes both options available to him. Texas law allows Cruz to run for the Republican nomination for Senate and president simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>As part of Cruz\u2019s effort to seed a potential presidential bid, he is crisscrossing the country this fall campaigning for Republicans on the 2022 ballot, raising millions of dollars for the candidates he is supporting. The plan is to connect with voters in key battlegrounds and early primary states, such as New Hampshire, and create a network of allies in the House and Senate whose assistance could prove crucial in a crowded and competitive nominating contest.<\/p>\n<p>But for now, Cruz waits on Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was the last Republican president, and one of the prerogatives that comes with that is he gets to decide what he\u2019s going to do, and then, everyone else will decide accordingly,\u201d the senator said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDONDERRY, New Hampshire \u2014 Sen. 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