{"id":22652,"date":"2015-03-23T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22652"},"modified":"2015-03-23T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T23:34:00","slug":"ted-cruz-jumps-into-the-2016-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22652\/ted-cruz-jumps-into-the-2016-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz Jumps into the 2016 Presidential Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not one to wait his turn, today U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) became the first person to announce he is running for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The first-term senator declared his ambition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2015\/03\/23\/ted_cruz_announces_2016_candidacy_at_liberty_university.html \" target=\"_blank\">during a speech<\/a> at Liberty University, the world\u2019s largest Christian university and the symbolic epicenter for the conservative grassroots Cruz is trying to represent.<\/p>\n<p>In the Age of Obama, Cruz\u2019s red meat speech seems almost like a throwback to the days when conservatives were unabashed in their support for the three-legged stool of the movement\u2019s issues: social, economic, and national security.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for a candidate to double-down on first principles, Cruz might be the one.<\/p>\n<p>Though his pre-announcement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2015\/03\/22\/ted-cruz-is-starting-with-less-support-than-anyone-since-bill-clinton\/ \" target=\"_blank\">polling numbers haven\u2019t been stellar<\/a>, Cruz will be working hard to move the needle higher now that he is officially in the race to replace Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the job interview, Senator. We look forward to hearing more from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not one to wait his turn, today U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) became the first person to announce he is running for the presidency. The first-term senator declared his ambition during a speech at Liberty University, the world\u2019s largest Christian university and the symbolic epicenter for the conservative grassroots Cruz is trying to represent. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3887,143,19,1069,731,2890,4662],"class_list":["post-22652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-3887","tag-barack-obama","tag-economy","tag-liberty","tag-national-security","tag-ted-cruz","tag-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22652"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22656,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22652\/revisions\/22656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}