On Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz said he is “filled with the promise that we’re going to turn this country around.”
He spoke at a Tea Party Patriots fifth year anniversary event, saying “If you listen to the media, if you listen to Democrats — although I repeat myself — they will say the fight to stop Obamacare did not succeed.” Cruz tried to defund the program causing a government shutdown last fall.
He continued, “Really? Well, I’m a big believer the proof is in the pudding. Last fall, millions of Americans rose up and said, ‘Stop the disaster that is Obamacare.’ … We elevated the national debate of the incredible harms Obamacare is visiting on millions of Americans.”
Cruz told reporters about the Kansas primary after the tea party event. “I will confess I am not involved in that race … I trust the grass roots in each state to make the decision. Incumbent politicians have enormous advantages anywhere they’re running, and I think every elected official, me included, owes it to the grass roots to make the case on the ground why he or she is standing up for the principles you said you would and fighting for the values of the people who elected you.”