Republican Texas Senator Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz was born December 22, 1970 in Calgary, Canada. Ted graduated from Princeton University in 1992, then attended Harvard Law School in
1995. Cruz became the first Hispanic Solicitor General from 2003-2008 and ran for senate in 2012. In 2016, Cruz is a Republican candidate for the 2016 Presidential Election. Cruz has spoken on many topics including Second Amendment rights, religious liberty, securing the border, jobs, and more.
Gun Control
Gun control has been a controversial topic between Democrats and Republicans for a very long time. Some support the Second Amendment, which is the constitutional right to bear arms, and some do not. Ted Cruz, however, does. On The New York …show more content…
That is disgraceful.”
Climate Change
Many democratic candidates have spoken on how climate change is a problem. Cruz, however, thinks otherwise. In an interview, Cruz said “Climate change is not science. It’s religion.” He also said, “Look at the language, where they call you a denier,” he said. “Denier is not the language of science … Any good scientist is a skeptic; if he’s not, he or she should not be a scientist.”
Education
According to Forbes Magazine, Cruz said, “We need to repeal Common Core. We need to get the federal government out of the business of dictating educational standards. Education is far too important for it to be governed by unelected bureaucrats in Washington. It should be at the state level or even better at the local level.” He also added “Imagine embracing school choice as the civil rights issue of the next generation. That every single child, regardless of race, regardless of ethnicity, regardless of wealth or zip code, every child in America has a right to a quality education. And that’s true from all of the above, whether it is public schools or charter schools or private schools or Christian schools or parochial schools or homeschooled. Every