According to New4JAx and CNN, Senator Ted Cruz is expected to be the first candidate out of the gate by announcing that he is running for President on Monday at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. Liberty University is the largest Christian university and one with which I have been very familiar since I went there from 1999-2000.
Cruz will be the first candidate to officially throw his hat in the ring. The Houston Chronicle said Cruz is not going to form an exploratory committee prior to announcing his run for the White House, he is just going to do it.During the last two years in the Senate, Cruz has made a name for himself and his trademark ostrich boots. He has very impressive oratory skills, is highly educated and seemingly very genuine when he speaks. Cruz is also one of the few candidates expected to run who has not flip flopped on his political opinions or convictions.
The Senator has been a unwavering opponent of President Obama and his failed policies. Back in 2013 he spoke on the Senate floor for 21-hours to filibuster Obamacare. Unlike filibuster’s before his, his speech also had substance. Some Democrats in the past have simply read the phone book whereas Cruz articulated why he was against the bill stopping only to read Dr Suess’s Green Eggs and Ham to his children and to answer questions from his colleagues.
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Other Senators are expected to run for President as well. They are Rand Paul and Marco Rubio. All the Senators are in their first-term and are expected to get questions about their experience just as President Obama received when he first ran for President.
As a little background on Cruz: he was born in Canada to a Cuban father and an American mother. He was a dual-citizen until he renounced his Canadian citizenship. As for the questions if he is eligible to run for president: law experts consider him a natural-born citizen because he was born to an American mother.
The Senator also graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. Prior to being elected to the Senate in 2012 he was solicitor general of Texas and argued before the Supreme Court.
