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ted cruz had been part of the bush administration. he never ran for office. but he did have a lot of support from people who were y line with the bush operation. there's a lot of tension between them and rick perry. >> so how does ted cruz a guy who was the attorney general get to be the outsider and the grass roots candidate? >> no, he was -- what does that say about what is the tea party? gwen: that's a good question because in indiana it was the state treasurer who goeses up. >> but ted cruz -- the solicitor general is not a job. but the tea party is interesting because it's not really a party. about in many ways it's not really an organization. i sort of compare it to a weather system. if all the barometric indicatorses are just right, it can cause real storm. it in nebraska where deb fischer is the republican nominee state senator, he was the only candidate in that race who did not have any tea party support. and she beat two tea parties -- >> even though she was endorsed by sarah palin. and you keep reading in the coverage, tea party candidate. no, she

dick armey and his group, freedom works, work for ted cruz. they saw in him someone who, on the business issues, would be on their side. they do not care as much about the issues of abortion and marriage. but he is on the right when it comes to abortion, marriage, and business deregulation. he is the perfect candidate for this group in washington. although again he tried to emphasize the fact that he was fighting washington when in fact he was bankrolled by washington. >> wayne slater is our guest. he has written a number of books. among them, "bush's brain: how karl rove made george w. bush presidential." he also wrote "the architect: karl rove and the dream of absolute power." i wanted to play an ad from karl rove's superpac, american crossroads, who paid $9 million to air in battleground states in july. it highlights the obama comment that prompted tuesday night's "we built it" theme at the republican national convention. before we play a clip, if you could talkut karl rove in the convention. you were just with him at a political event. >>

talk about texas and talk about this win for ted cruz.e's going to be a rising star in the republican party very quickly and about your column that you wrote. >> well, it's interesting, ted cruz, i think you're seeing the same pattern here over and over again. you've got your basic party guy that everybody respects. he's been in office for 2000 years one way or another. and he's going to go and be in the senate and everybody likes him. and then suddenly this person comes out of nowhere saying, no, no, no. and he's more interesting. he's more exciting. he's sort of more active. he's more energetic. and he wins. it's about right wing principles but it's also, i think, just about how the base of the republican party, the old establishment doesn't have any juice anymore. it just doesn't seem to have any candidates that get -- >> they really don't. they really don't. the gop establishment is dead. they are -- if they're not dead, they are exhausted and they're moving that way, from texas to wisconsin, from coast to coast. they get pummeled. it

ted cruz's double digit win is the second coup for the u.s. senate in the primary season. 17 contested senate races, more than half dozen candidates are embraced by the tea party. ted cruz says it's a reflection of the party getting back to its bedrock principles. >> a lot of republicans would say they think things have gotten worse with the tea party members there, that that's put a stop or halt to a lot of things. >> i think there are a lot of things to needed to stop, that needed to halt. our $16 trillion debt was a bipartisan problem. a whole lot of republicans went arm in arm with the democrats in agreeing to that spending. >> do you feel like a lot of people out there are out to get the tea party? >> oh, sure. look, everyone who has a vested interest in the status quo, in business as usual, in spending and spending and spending wants to stop anyone who wants to stop that gravy train. >> donny deutsch, since mika is not with us, this morning you will play the liberal from new york who gets hives every time the tea party advances like this

congratulations, ted cruz, for putting another feather in the hat of tri-corner hat of the tea party is the thing. the ascending of the tea partyers like cruz is impressive. but it comes from republicans who have just knocked off or resigned. other republicans have moved further to the right to placate the absurd demands of the tea party extremists. now mitt romney is the perfect example. he seemed like a moderate govern but now he cannot wait to board the tea party express to crazy town. as it was said on this show last night, mitt romney is effectively such a pandering weak-willed witch that he's basically outsourcing his brain to the tea party his policies to the tea party his backbone to the tea party and it's funders, the koch brothers. whatever they want, mitt romney will do. as they take republicans further to the right he's going to move right along with them. he has got to chase the base, a base which is getting smaller and crazier and koch brothers-ier. whether it's whether it's their sharia law or conspiracies and and not willing to buck the grover norquist they'll go clear

this was all about ted cruz. he had no elect electoral experience when he began, running against the establishment with tons of money to spend and ted cruz overcame that because of the tea party and because of his ability to articulate and stand for his ideals. >> he is practicing law. >> john this is a. >> solicitor general. >> he is a brilliant guy. >> what law firm did he work with? >> morgan lewis. >> morgan lewis, a major firm. >> ivy? >> john this is a first round draft pick. >> was he a member of that firm? >> they are principally out of philadelphia. >> the he argued the case before the supreme court that overturned the gun laws in the district of columbia. he's got an impressive resume and what i would hope is that he represents maybe a maturing of the tea party movement that if he gets elected, which he most probably will, that he will come to washington and not just want to be a bomb thrower, that he will work to be a legitimate legislator. i mean the guy is brilliant, he's got a terrific resume, a nic

we'll go to texas to look at ted cruz and julian castro.ll have the lay of the land from the ground. a lot more stories at the top of the hour. >> eliot: mitt romney's tax plan, i know, you may not spend a whole lot of time--it's lift all yachts. >> oh, i thought you meant his tax returns. >> eliot: we have those, too. we have those, too. you don't have them yet? >> oh, yeah, we got the inside, you just can't believe it. watch at the top of the hour, you'll see a preview of mitt romney's tax returns. >> eliot: we'll now all be watching. thanks a lot jennifer. >> you bet. >> eliot: more "viewpoint" coming up next. >>we will not settle for the easy answers. >>you couldn't say it any more powerfully than that. >>it really is incredible. >> eliot: compared to what? that's the question that barney frank wisely suggest we asked when evaluating different pieces of legislation or for that matter any answer to a policy issue. that question seems especially appropriate today when tax issues are back on the table before congress. house republicans rej

we were at 2% in the polls. >> woodruff: but last night, former texas solicitor general ted cruz captured republican nomination for a u.s. senate seat. >> and they said i couldn't do it. and you know what? they were right. i couldn't do it, but you could. ( cheers ) >> woodruff: cruz trounced texas' lieutenant governor of nine years, david dewhurst, by 13 points. he did it with the backing of such tea party favorites as sarah palin and rick santorum, and with a fiery brand of conservative populism. >> tonight is a victory for the grassroots... ( long cheer ) it is a testament to republican women, to tea party leaders and to grassroots conservatives. ( cheers ) >> woodruff: dewhurst had been the republican establishment favorite with the backing of texas governor rick perry and other party leaders. he finished first in the may primary, but failed to avoid a runoff, and then faded badly. >> i just got off the phone with ted cruz and i offered him my congratulations and his supporters on a hard-fought victory and my support. >> woodruff: the 41-year-old cruz is making his first bid for elect

may primary, but failed to avoid a runoff, and then faded badly. >> i just got off the phone with ted cruz i offered him my congratulations and his supporters on a hard-fought victory and my support. >> woodruff: the 41-year-old cruz is making his first bid for elected office. he's a one-time ivy league debating champion, whose father left cuba during the castro revolution. now, the son has scored the latest in a string of tea party triumphs in u.s. senate primaries this year. in indiana, longtime senator richard lugar lost to tea party favorite richard mourdock in may's republican primary. and in nebraska, deb ficsher beat the state's attorney general for the republican senate nomination there. they've become major factors in a year when senate races in at least eight states are considered tossups and republicans are bidding to win control of the senate. in texas, cruz is favored to win in november, and succeed retiring republican senator kay bailey hutchison. the lone star state has not sent a democrat to the senate since 1988. so, how did ted cruz do it? and what does his win mean for t

ted cruz cruises to victory last night.itution uh-huhbelled and honored to be marching alongside each and every one of you. >> you don't like my cruises to victory? >> no. how much do you bet there is a hackneyed newspaper. >> probably at the top of the dallas morning news. >> exactly. the point here is ted cruz, a rabid tea partier and i think for the last couple of months we talked to eliot spitzer, host of "viewpoint" on current tv each night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. we talked to him earlier about how we thought the tea party support was slowly declining. maybe that's not the case. and it's a little disconcerting maybe to use one of mitt romney's favorite words that got him in trouble. i don't know how we fell in love with the tea party again. how people fell in love with the tea party again but some people have. it's going to be a fight in texas. peter ogburn sitting in for bill press. we will be right back to tell you what the president is up to today. >> this is the bill press show. dose of politics from a fresh perspect

ted cruz has won the republican nomination for senate in texas. he was running against lieutenant governor david dewhurst from the right. ahead of tonight's results, an unnamed republican consultant describes as nationally known, that consultant told the texas monthly, quote, if ted cruz wins the senate race, texas will be a purple state in four years. that's a republican saying that about his own party's overreach. democrats have been saying texas is heading purple already, including president obama saying it this month in san antonio. >> you're not considering one of tl battleground states, although, that's going to be changing soon. >> texas? texas. the run-off tonight in texas followed weeks of campaigning, frankly, by folks who are not from texas. sarah palin and jim demint and grover norquist's folks for growth trying to get ted cruz the nomination. since the winner of the republican primary, at least for now, is a lock to win the seat in november, texas democrats pretty much ignored their own senate primary. you kind of have to in the texas

isn't going anywhere at least as long as there billionaire overlords are hanging around so who is ted cruz well as the center for american progress details cruz has gone on record to warn us all that george soros is leading the united nations conspiracy to outlaw golf courses around the world i'm not joking go to his website ted cruz dot org where he writes quote agenda twenty one which is what the nefarious plot is officially called attempts to abolish unsustainable environments including golf courses as a six handicap or i know golf was in danger trust me it's not ok i'm a fourteen handicapper but cruz still thinks george soros is trying to outlaw golf cruz also believes just like rick perry that social security is a ponzi scheme he believes that states should be able to overturn federal law and idea that pretty much ignited the civil war whose is also a ranting islamophobia one of those guys who's running around yelling about the dangers of sharia law and he'll soon be the lone star state's next united states senator congratulations texas but really there's a bigger picture here to cruz

texas teparty candidate ted cruz only on "fox news sunday". and the struggling economy and the presidential race . we'll discuss how the stall would recovery is changing the president's reelection strategy when we talk to david axelrod. top strategist for the campaign. it is it a "fox news sunday" exclusive. battle lines are drawn over chick-fil-a and the company's support of traditional major . power player of the week. it's all happen negligent zoo. all right now on "fox news sunday". hello, again from fox news in washington . in a few minutes we'll sit down with ted cruz, teparty backed candidate who shocked the world of politics in texas this week. but first how to get americans back to work. joining us from washington is david axelrod. welcome back to "fox news sunday". >> guest: thank you, chris. >> chris: start with the economy. the 163,000 jobs in july but unemployment rate in 8.3 percent. more than 23 million americans are unemployed and given up looking for work or working fewer hours than they would like and more than five million o

so every time -- >> like ted cruz. >> no.american. >> or marco rubio. >> that's been a different situation. every time a speech is written by a tea partier, they're not happy with saying they're going to cut spending. they've got to say something to do with the border. >> that's not a tea party position. >> why does cruz make that statement? all of the time you hear border, border, border. >> what brings the tea party together is the center of american politics. it's not extreme. it's let's spend what we bring in. it's fiscal policy. >> you're saying tea parties don't have an attitude about immigration. >> no. >> they don't? >> no. there's not a consistent tea party position on immigration. >> how can you say that when they're talking about the cause? it sounds like the confederate army still fighting the civil war. >> when we bring tea partiers together at freedom works, what they agree on is fiscal responsibility and the constitutional limit to federal power. they disagree on everything else. social policy, immigration. >>

ted cruz, texas senate candidate and tea party darling, spoke and said very interesting things regarding hispanics and how the president is trying to divide the country. i want to play that sound and get your reaction to it. >> president obama's campaign is trying to divide america. telling seniors medicare will be taken away. telling hispanics that we're not welcome here. and sending the vice president to preach a message of division. >> there are a couple things to unpack there. i thought one of the most incredible pieces of that statement was tell hispanics that we're not welcome here, especially given where the president is at on immigration and where ted cruz is on immigration. ted cruz, if you don't know, has been an advocate of resuming deportations of young undocumented residents here in the united states. the question of how the gop can appeal to minority voters is a big one, an important one, and one that the gop has shown no signs of being able to answer thus far. i guess i wonder what you made of the optics of last night with the gop backloading basically anyone from latin ba

. >>> former texas solicitor general ted cruz scored a major upset in a run-off election for the opennate seat in the lone star state. a tea party favorite who railed against the united nations, social security, and sharia law, he's a shoo-in to win the red state in november. last night, he thanked the people who made it possible, conservative talk radio, billionaire advocacy groups and their certain half-term governor. >> i want to thank the national leaders who have stepped forward, first and foremost, governor sarah palin. >> sarah palin used the occasion to address the masses in the way she knows best. she wrote on her facebook page, this is a victory both for ted and for the grassroots tea party movement. so who was cruz's opponent? some screaming liberal, some neophyte? the lieutenant governor republican david dewhurst, a man by the laws of the state, the most powerful political figure in texas. his four-point election platform called for the repeal of obama care, eliminating the power of the epa and national labor relations board and rejecting green energy initiatives. this is

ted cruz will head into the more conservative tea party candidate. ted cruz will head into the election in november as the virtual shoo-in to be the state's next u.s. senator. he was once the state's chief lawyer and was a law clerk for william rehnquist, the previous chief justice of the united states. we asked sharyl attkisson to catch up with cruz today. >> i think we're seeing a transformation, because i think the republican party is getting back to the principles we should have stood for. >> reporter: ted cruz has never been elected to public office, but the princeton debate champ and harvard law grad is now heavily favored to replace retiring senator kay bailey hutchison. his primary campaign was viewed we many as a struggle between moderate republicans and the tea party. do you feel as though congress is better or worse off the way it's working with those tea party members there? >> i think it is much, much better off, but i think it is a transition that's only halfway complete. 2010 was the first step. right now, they can't do anything. as lo

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that goes along electing ted cruz.george, the most interesting and important fight in american politics, aren't between the parties they're within the parties. people say about ted cruz, well he's part of the anti-intellectual tea part rtty. well, princeton, harvard, i don't think so. then, they say, well he doesn't play well with others. people in texas, he doesn't play well with others. send him to washington. >> we have other primaries coming up. >> i would say, deb fisher in nebraska, not a tea party candidate, she was endorsed by sarah palin. sarah palin is 4 for 4 on her endorsements. so, it's a bit of a mixed record. the big difference this year, george, is that none -- we have no people in here like o'donnell or engel, no tea party candidates getting nominated. >> ted cruz's victory party, they served chick-fil-a. >> i want to talk about that, ann coulter, we saw those record sales at chick-fil-a. what does tell you as the guy marriage going into the election? >> um, it tells me something about polls generally

dave, let's talk about ted cruz.ea partiers and evangelicals. >> no doubt about it. and you can lump him in with scott walker and some of these other guys, as well. look, i mean, it was interesting to see what ted cruz did last night. there was some code language in there. the great awakening. we hear about this all the time in those tea party and evangelical circles, i call them the teavangelical circles. he talked about how our rights come from god, not government, all of this. i think it was very interesting how ted cruz was able to navigate those waters and absolutely he's going to be -- i've got to tell you guys, i was on with ted cruz on -- down in dallas with glenn beck. it was actually glenn beck on the couch with glenn beck, ted cruz, myself and matt can i havy from freedom works, tea party guy. we were all down there, this was about a month ago or so. and he was saying the same thing last night. it was in front of a tea party audience. and i've got to tell you, this is a winning ticket in the future. >> int

ted cruz is the leading u.s. senate candidate, the republican, from fine state of texas. mr. reat to have you. why is it the latino vote that tends to vote democratic? not overwhelmingly so, but a little volatile at this point, but, enough i would think to worry republicans. >>guest: well, it has varied over time. the hispanic community is a profoundly conservative community. the values that resonate in our commune, their faith, family, patriotism, hard work, a friend of mine, an hispanic entrepreneur who asked, when is the last time you saw an hispanic panhandler. that is a great question. i have never seen one. the reason is, in the hispanic community it would be viewed as shameful to be begging on the street. you think of that: hard work, responsibility, providing for your family. those are all conservative values. >>neil: how is the republican botched reaching hispanics? >>guest: a lot of republicans have not been effective communicating with the hispanic community in a way that connects and is real. that is something we have to do a better job, saying your values and our

ted cruz is a favorite of the tea party, and yesterday cruz racking up a convincing victory in the republicanst to replace outgoing senator kay bailey hutchison. cruz getting lots of help, including endorsements from big-name backers across the country and dedicated volunteers working to get out the vote. >> tonight is a victory for the grassroots. [cheers and applause] it is a testament to republican women, to tea party leaders -- [cheers and applause] and to grassroots conservatives. rick: charlie hurd is a columnist for the washington times. charlie, this wasn't even close. >> no. i mean, not only was this a stunning upset victory, but it was a trouncing, it was a double-digit trouncing which makes it all the more sweeter for the tea party and for ted cruz. you know, every time one of the tea party has a victory like this, you know, the media tends to brush it off as some sort of fluke or further evidence that the tea party is kind of riding over the cliff with a bunch ofback coes, and, of course, every time they have a loss, the media is quick to write the obituary. but we're talking abou