The latest Ted Cruz news from The Texas Tribune.
The office of Attorney General Ken Paxton is formally defending his decision to continue paying two high-level staffers after they resigned, saying Paxton "acted in a compassionate, legal, and ethical manner." Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/02/02/6F6A9136.jpg)
On Monday afternoon, KERA News sat down with Sen. John Cornyn in the Hart Senate Office Building to talk about new legislation he’s sponsoring, Donald Trump — and Ted Cruz, his Texas colleague in the Senate who's running for president. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2014/09/20/TribFest_Cornyn0131.jpg)
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is headed for defeat in five northeastern primaries Tuesday, a round of nominating contests from which the Texas senator has already moved on. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/04/19/Cruz_in_PA_TT.jpg)
It was an awkward first day for the new Ted Cruz-John Kasich alliance, with more questions than answers about their joint attempt to blunt frontrunner Donald Trump's momentum. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/03/31/Cruz-Kasich.jpg)
Texas Democrats have filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission claiming the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz violated federal election law. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/04/08/cruz_ny_TT.jpg)
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential campaign is officially teaming up with rival John Kasich to deny frontrunner Donald Trump the Republican nomination. Full Story
Time and again during his race for the GOP presidential nomination, U.S. Sen Ted Cruz has shifted, shaded or obfuscated his policy positions — piling on new ideas, which sometimes didn’t fit with the old. Full Story
Anxious for the presidential race to move beyond the northeast, Ted Cruz is laying the groundwork for a vigorous effort in Indiana that could determine how close Donald Trump gets to securing the Republican nomination. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/02/21/Cruz-Close-Up.jpg)
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz laced into Donald Trump Thursday morning in Maryland for the billionaire's suggestion that North Carolina should back down from a law that says individuals must use the public restroom that corresponds with one’s birth certificate gender. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/01/13/DonaldTed.jpg)
This week on The Ticket: KUT’s Ben Philpott and the Tribune's Jay Root talk with FiveThirtyEight.com senior political writer Harry Enten about the results of the New York primary. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2015/12/22/TT-theticket_leadart_.png)
Ted Cruz's campaign has quietly dispatched surrogates to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to woo delegates who could be critical to prevailing at a contested Republican National Convention. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2014/06/06/CruzFriRPT676CMS.jpg)
After a bruising defeat in New York, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is officially retooling his outlook on how the Republican Party will pick its nominee. Full Story
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's poor finish in the New York GOP primary was so foreseeable that he spent the evening in Pennsylvania. Full Story
A day before the New York Republican primary, where Donald Trump is expected to dominate, Ted Cruz was stumping in Maryland, ready for the next round of contests. Full Story
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has swept the remaining delegates at stake in Wyoming, bringing to 23 his total haul from the state. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/03/01/CruzRally-20160229-BrettBuchanan-selects-013.jpg)
Embattled Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday endorsed Ted Cruz for president, making his support official for a longtime ally four days after being hit with new charges from federal regulators. Full Story
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz decisively won his home state primary by 17 points in March, collecting more than two-thirds of the GOP convention delegates up for grabs in Texas. More than a month later, he has an opportunity make that victory even sweeter. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/03/01/7C2A2214.jpg)
Effectively broadening U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's path to becoming the Republican presidential nominee, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan insisted Tuesday he would not accept such a nomination this summer at the GOP convention in Cleveland. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/04/12/TT-Ryan.jpg)
In one of the sharpest escalations of Ted Cruz's rhetoric against GOP presidential rival Donald Trump, Cruz called Trump an incompetent manager and said that it appears Trump "can't run a lemonade stand." Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/03/22/cruz-trump.jpg)
The widely held perception in Washington is that Ted Cruz and John Cornyn are the two same-state senators who least like each other. The most frequently used word observers use to describe the relationship is “disconnected.” Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2015/04/10/_S3R1888CornynCruzCMS.jpg)