Ted Cruz, affirming Trump’s refusal to concede, angles to be Trumpiest post-Trump contender

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Lots of reports "rumoring" Ted's going to run in 2024 -- I still say it's not going to happen and we'll be lucky to even see an election in 2024; certainly if Biden/Harris are seated, the electoral process will be changed and millions will be granted amnesty.

Ted Cruz, affirming Trump’s refusal to concede, angles to be Trumpiest post-Trump contender

 The runner-up for the 2016 GOP nomination, Sen. Ted Cruz has made no secret of wanting to try again for the White House. The Texan’s actions before and since Election Day appear calibrated to serve that ambition.

He collected chits by jetting to Senate battleground states and lending his star power to embattled colleagues. He raised more for House candidates than almost anyone else. He’ll spend time in Georgia over the next two months to pitch in on two runoffs that will determine control of the Senate.

And importantly, he has gone further than almost anyone not in President Donald Trump’s family or on his payroll in casting doubt on President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, positioning himself as one of the Trumpiest of the post-Trump contenders.

“Wait and let the process play out, the legal process. These results are still being contested in court,” Cruz said in one of his many conservative talk show appearances aimed at assuring the base that it’s not over. “The media has now called it for Joe Biden. They want everyone to shut up, and they say if you dare disagree with their call, that you’re somehow undermining democracy. Well, that’s not actually how our Constitution works.”

If it’s a gambit, it’s a shrewd one in terms of cultivating affection among conservatives Cruz would need to jump start a second president bid.

“He’s a smart guy. I think he knows the election’s over,” said Doug Gross, the GOP nominee for Iowa governor in 2002 and the 2008 state chair of Mitt Romney’s campaign.

But “Trump’s hold on that core base of Republican that would likely be Cruz voters is absolute. So I don’t think he has much of a choice,” he said. “If he wants to run for president, he’s reading his potential constituency in Iowa correctly…. They are a hundred percent Trumpsters. That segment of the Republican Party would be 100% with Trump not giving up.”.............

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/11/13/ted-cruz-affirming-trumps-refusal-to-concede-angles-to-be-trumpiest-post-trump-contender/