With his presidential campaign behind him, Ted Cruz will soon return to the U.S. Capitol and the job he was working so hard to transcend: rank-and-file senator. It will likely be hostile territory.
Abby Livingston
Abby Livingston joined The Texas Tribune in 2014 as the publication's first Washington bureau chief, and departed August 2022. In this role, she covered members in the Texas congressional delegation and campaigns back in the home state. A seventh-generation Texan, Abby grew up in Fort Worth and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to the Tribune, Abby worked for NBC, CNN, National Journal and Roll Call. At the Tribune, she won the 2017 National Press Club Award for Washington regional reporting and the Society of Professional Journalists' 2018 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington correspondence. Abby is a contributing writer to the Almanac of American Politics and frequently appears on MSNBC, CNN and Sirius XM radio. She also had a role on an episode of "The Bold and The Beautiful." In keeping with the Trib’s great history of hiring softball stars, Abby is a three-time MVP (the most in game history) for The Bad News Babes, the women’s press softball team that takes on female members of Congress in the annual Congressional Women’s Softball breast cancer charity game.
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Texas Money Floats Republican Efforts to Hold U.S. House Seats
As Republican campaign operatives raise concerns that the party could lose U.S. House seats with Donald Trump as its standard-bearer, Texas Republicans are funding efforts to shore up vulnerable incumbents around the country.
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Cruz Taps Fiorina as Running Mate Should He Win GOP Nomination
At a rally in Indianapolis, Ted Cruz named former presidential rival Carly Fiorina as his would-be running mate if he can manage to snag the Republican presidential nomination from frontrunner Donald Trump.
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Cruz on Trump’s Take on “Bathroom Law”: Have We Gone Nuts?
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.
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Sanders Effort to Flip Clinton Superdelegates Likely to Stall in Texas
The Bernie Sanders campaign promises to put the screws to a special class of party elders known as superdelegates. But they’ve got their work cut out for them in Texas, where well-connected Clinton loyalists are so far not impressed.
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As Expected, Cruz Trounced in New York
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s poor finish in the New York GOP primary was so foreseeable that he spent the evening in Pennsylvania.
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On Eve of Primary, Ted Cruz Looks Beyond Trump-Friendly New York
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.
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In Wyoming, Cruz Marks Another Delegate Sweep
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has swept the remaining delegates at stake in Wyoming, bringing to 23 his total haul from the state.
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Hurd Outraises Gallego in New Fundraising Reports
The fundraising race for Texas’ only competitive congressional seat is heating up. Freshman U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, a Republican, hopes to fend off a challenge from the man he defeated in 2014, Democrat Pete Gallego.
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Democrats Boiling Over Attacks on Julián Castro
Julián Castro’s allies are boiling over criticism from progressive corners regarding his tenure as secretary of the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development.
