Sen Ted Cruz, R-Cruzlandia.
Texas’ own Sen. Ted Cruz announced via Twitter at midnight he is running for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
He is the first major candidate to announce his presidential ambitions.
He’ll kick off his campaign today at Liberty University, the evangelical Christian university founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell in Lynchburg, Va.
As the Washington Post points out, Liberty is “the perfect launch pad for Cruz.” As the intellectual home of the Moral Majority, Cruz is reaching out to a key segment of the grassroots Republican vote: social conservatives. As I previously wrote, Cruz has re-introduced the State Marriage Defense Act, which would circumvent the expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning marriage equality bans.
He also plans to introduce a constitutional amendment barring federal recognition of same-sex marriage later this year.
Hopefully he’ll remember along the way, he just doesn’t capitulate to the GOP grassroots but to his home state as well.
