Nothing would make Ted Cruz supporters happier than his running for president, and it looks like he’s edging closer and closer to doing so.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told a gaggle of reporters in Iowa on Saturday the response from conservatives to his potential presidential candidacy has been overwhelming.
“I’ve been incredibly encouraged by the support I’ve seen,” Cruz said in a media availability just outside of the Iowa Ag Summit in Des Moines. “The support from the grassroots, frankly has been breathtaking, and the financial support we’ve received from Texas and all across the country. So it’s something I’m looking at closely, and I think that decision will be made shortly.”
One thing is for sure, he’ll continue to tell people what they need to hear, not what they want to hear:
Cruz is in Iowa with a handful of other potential GOP candidates to address business-minded conservatives at the Iowa Ag Summit. He got a cool response from room full of hundreds of business-minded rural conservatives for his opposition to renewable fuel standards (RFS), which he has described as corporate welfare.
“While I recognize that this is a gathering of a lot of folks where the answer you’d like to hear is, ‘I’m for the RFS,’ ” Cruz said, provoking ironic applause from a few in the crowd.
“That’d be the easy thing to do,” Cruz continued. “But I’ll tell you, people are pretty fed up by the politicians who go around telling one group one thing and another group another thing, and then they go to Washington and don’t do anything they said they’re going to do.”
And that’s partly why some people hate Ted Cruz – they prefer to be lied to by politicians than be told the truth.