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A Texas senator who was once Donald Trump’s strongest opponent during his first bid for the presidency may return to do battle with him in 2028. MAGA’s chosen successor.
Washington Post On Monday, news broke that 55-year-old Ted Cruz is preparing for a possible second presidential term. in 2028 As his party eyes the first election cycle without Trump’s name in the race for the top post in more than 10 years.
according to PostMorton Klein of the Zionist Organization for America, one of Cruz’s top aides in Washington and a pro-Israel leader, believes Cruz is “seriously” considering a White House bid. Klain said the Texas senator is already receiving calls from other colleagues urging him to run. Post,
Another person close to the senator was quoted as saying Cruz is eyeing a bid.
It comes as Cruz continues to publicly feud with Tucker Carlson, who is often seen as another potential candidate in the hypothetical 2028 Republican primary. Carlson, now a freelance media host after leaving Fox News, has emerged as one of the most vocal critics of Israel and American neoconservative policy in the Middle East, with Cruz being viewed as a champion both currently and during his unsuccessful 2016 bid for the presidency.
Cruz, in the years since his unsuccessful performance, has launched his own podcast and put his time and effort into building his brand as a commentator with younger audiences. It’s a strategic move: Those younger Republicans turned down Cruz for Trump in 2016, and will be key to Cruz winning the 2028 primary if he faces off against Vice President J.D. Vance, the most likely successor to Trump’s MAGA White House brand.
Vance, who leads all available polling on the 2028 Republican side, is a veteran of the podcasting and right-wing independent media circuit. Even with Cruz’s efforts to expand his brand beyond older Republicans who connected with him during the Tea Party movement, the vice president is gaining ground among the party’s younger, politically more extreme MAGA base.
However, given the Vice President’s strong ties to Peter Thiel and the conservative wing of Silicon Valley elites, given the dislike by some of Trump’s allies for Vance taking over, it makes the prospect of a contest more interesting. If asked to choose between Vance and Cruz, who represent an interventionist wing of the party, people like Steve Bannon might fall into the middle or support a third choice. war Room The host and former insider has consistently called for its cancellation.
For the above reasons Cruz could be a long-term candidate in 2028. His on-camera clash with Carlson echoed loudly in conservative media earlier this year, as the right-wing host grilled the senator on topics including Iran and generally portrayed his opponent as inept and ignorant about the foreign policy positions he claimed to support.
“By the way, how many people live in Iran?” Carlson asked Cruz in a conversation during the interview, prompting the senator to say he didn’t know.
“at all?” Carlson hit back. “Don’t you know the population of the country you want to overthrow?”
Cruz’s pro-interventionist stance has often translated into policies and actions that are some of the president’s least popular decisions among his MAGA base, including a buildup of military forces near Venezuela and an increased military campaign against small boats in the Caribbean that the U.S. says are carrying drugs.
A Texas senator has accused critics of the president’s military strikes of supporting the socialist regime in Venezuela led by Nicolas Maduro, which many experts say are completely illegal.