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January 20, 2016 01:40 PM UTC

Ken Buck Backs Ted Cruz

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Sen. Ted Cruz, with Tom Tancredo (L) and Rep. Steve King of Iowa (R).
Sen. Ted Cruz, with Tom Tancredo (L) and Rep. Steve King of Iowa (R).

As the Denver Post’s Mark Matthews reports, it’s a match made in heaven:

U.S. Rep. Ken Buck on Wednesday became the first member of Colorado’s congressional delegation to back U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz for president — calling the Texas Republican (and fellow Princeton alum) a “strong, conservative leader” who has “fought hard against the Washington establishment.”

“We need Ted in 2016 in order to help restore America back to the principles that made this country exceptional,” Buck said in a statement released by the Cruz campaign.

Rep. Ken Buck’s endorsement reflects the sense of the Tea Party contingent in the U.S. House, of which Buck is a leader and which has been strongly influenced by Sen. Ted Cruz as a weapon against the “establishment” House GOP leadership under now departed Speaker John Boehner. Cruz has arguably been a more effective leader in Washington working with the so-called “Freedom Caucus” and their allies than in his own chamber.

With the other “Trump alternative” Marco Rubio consistently behind Cruz in national polls despite endorsements including Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner and Rep. Mike Coffman, Buck may be making a smart call–more than Coffman, whose track record on presidential candidates (he backed Texas Gov. Rick Perry in 2012) isn’t really all that great.

We also assume that Buck and Cruz both eat ducks, so they have that to bond over.

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9 thoughts on “Ken Buck Backs Ted Cruz”

        1. I expect we'll soon see a Ted Cruz campaign video — his face besmeared with red, pink and green camouflage paint, AR-15 on his shoulder, twin bandoliers — all shot from inside the tough-guy confines of Shorty's (heated) melon blind …

  3. If Iowa or New Hampshire don't stop Trump's campaign, the GOP establishment has an alternate plan:

    Among some seasoned Republicans, the animus towards Cruz is so strong that a schadenfreudian hope has begun to emerge. In a contest against Trump, the thinking goes, it might be best for Cruz to win the nomination, only to suffer a lopsided general election defeat, proving once and for all the true limits of his appeal. It is taken for granted that the party under Cruz cannot win. And, in Washington, life will go on. 

    "I'm rooting for Hillary," said one half-joking somebody in the GOP establishment. "She can't win a mandate, so we hold the House and don't get slaughtered in the Senate. We will have a great midterm in 2018 running against her," he said, requesting anonymity for obvious reasons. "We are a great opposition party."

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-establishment-donald-trump-ted-cruz_us_56a058e0e4b0404eb8f04d0a

    The tacit admission is that Bush and even Rubio are no-hopers when it comes to electability

    1. Under such a scenario, would Rafael then return to the Senate and if so, would he run for re-election in '18? And what would Majority Leader (or hopefully Minority Leader) McConnell do with him?

      1. If that scenario played out with Cruz getting the GOP nomination, but leading the party to a electoral disaster, given his enormous ego and lust for power, I suspect he'd just stay put in the Senate, relishing his spoiler role.

        Unless he decided making millions in the private sector was worth relinquishing his political office, a'la Palin.

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