It’s shaping up to be the most watched,
most incendiary, and most expensive election in 2024. We’re not talking about the presidential
race. After 12 years in the Senate
and a 2016 presidential cam- paign in which he was the last candidate standing against Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz shows no sign of easing up — despite facing what may be the toughest battle of his political life, a costly and brutal trip to the polls next year. Cruz, 52, has established
himself as a national political figure, one of the most influen- tial conservatives in the coun- try — and, by far, one of the most controversial. He says what he means and
means what he says. It has earned him fervent followers on the right and determined detractors on the left. Whether the issue is illegal
immigration, the right to bear arms, or investigating the polit- icized and weaponized Justice Department and FBI, Cruz can be depended upon to be in the middle of the debate. As a result, he has a target on
his back. “Chuck Schumer has been
explicit that I am his No. 1 target in the country to try to defeat a Republican senator,” Cruz says of the Senate’s Dem- ocrat leader. “They’re going to spend over
$100 million in the next year to try to defeat me. They’re not going to succeed. “We’re going to win this
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because we’re doing the hard work, to raise the money to turn Republican voters out and to keep Texas red. It is going to be a serious battle.” Cruz’s political future will be
decided at the same time as vot- ers deliver their verdict on who should be in the White House. As usual, Cruz is unequivocal about what’s going on in Wash- ington. The Biden administration,
The Biden administration, and its Attorney General Merrick Garland, have weaponized the judicial system, he believes, and abused its power. Impeachment of Biden should be considered.
LAST MAN STANDING Sen. Ted Cruz on the debate stage with Donald Trump in 2016, and shaking hands with Attorney General Merrick Garland after a Senate Judiciary hearing this year.
and its Attorney General Mer- rick Garland, have weaponized the judicial system, he believes, and abused its power. Impeach- ment of Biden should be con- sidered. Cruz tells Newsmax the in- dictments of former President Trump “are a complete abuse of power” and “a manifestation of the weaponization of the Department of Justice and the FBI, of the entire law enforce- ment apparatus.” He cites his recent book Jus-
tice Corrupted, which “traces how, during the Trump admin- istration, hardcore left-wing partisans burrowed into senior career positions and waged war on Trump for four years from within the administration.” And now, under Joe Biden,
“they’ve come out in the open, and it is brazen.” In Cruz’s view, “Merrick
Garland is the most partisan and political attorney general
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