In new television ads released Tuesday, Ted Cruz targets GOP U.S. Senate runoff rival David Dewhurst, while Dewhurst targets President Obama.
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Health care
Cruz, Justice Roberts Have History
Before he was the U.S. Supreme Court chief justice who helped save “Obamacare,” John Roberts was friends with U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz, who described Roberts’ controversial decision as “heartbreaking.”
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At Tea Party Forum, Cruz and Dewhurst Lay Off Attacks
Speaking to more than 200 people at a Tea Party event in Sugar Land, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz showed more difference in style than in substance.
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Dewhurst Surrogate and Cruz Exchange Unpleasantries After Forum
A Republican candidate forum in Willis ended with an uncomfortable exchange between former state Solicitor General Ted Cruz and a former state senator acting as a surrogate for Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.
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Lobbyists Provide Campaign Funding, Ammo for Cruz, Dewhurst
Both Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and former Solicitor General Ted Cruz are trying to make hay out of the financial support their opponent is drawing from lobbyists.
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On Most Major Issues, Cruz and Dewhurst Agree
On a wide range of issues at the front of Republican voters’ minds, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and former Solicitor General Ted Cruz essentially agree. Actual policy differences between the candidates are exceedingly narrow.
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Cruz and Patrick Have Heated Debate on Dewhurst’s Record
Former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz and state Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, had a tense exchange Thursday on Patrick’s radio show as they debated Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst’s record.
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Demographics
Dewhurst’s Latest TV Ad: “Stop Obama’s Amnesty”
In a new TV ad, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst describes the southern border as “a 2,000-mile monument to the failure of Washington,” and the U.S. Senate candidate says President Obama’s recent executive order “burns me up.”
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Public Education
Cruz Accuses Dewhurst of “Deliberate Falsehood”
Former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz said Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst made a “deliberate falsehood” when he said that he had never supported a payroll tax. Dewhurst’s campaign says the allegations are “false and misleading.”
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Perry: Cruz Backers Don’t Know “How Texas Works”
A Super PAC backing Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst’s bid for the U.S. Senate released a new web video Friday in which Gov. Rick Perry praises Dewhurst’s conservative record and criticizes some backers of former Solicitor General Ted Cruz as uninformed.