https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to ted cruz en https://religiondispatches.org/2023/02/07/rights-satanic-grammy-panic-isnt-about-devil-or-pfizer-or-even-scantily-clad-women-its When I need to know what’s wrong with the world and who to be outraged at I turn to the words of Ted Cruz , Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) or even Ben Shapiro . Why? Because they certainly give upstanding… Tue, 07 Feb 2023 05:30:55 EST Mary Rambaran-Olm 452aa4e6-16c3-498b-9209-bed85f00d402 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/10/02/roy-10-commandments-moore-doesnt-want-reform-senate-he-has-higher-calling Much has already been written about the dangers Roy Moore—Alabama’s infamous “10 Commandments judge”—could pose if he wins the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions. But given Moore’s swift primary dispatching of incumbent (and Trump-endorsed) Sen. Luther Strange, and… Mon, 02 Oct 2017 01:02:35 EDT Sunnivie Brydum 0298bd2b-5736-4866-ad15-6e3a99515053 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/02/23/cpac-2017-hypocrites-parade Some of the most egregious untruths told to CPAC attendees today, complete with accurate information to contradict the claims made Thu, 23 Feb 2017 08:27:17 EST Sunnivie Brydum 67bf49e3-77d6-4961-8074-d8d0888a85ac https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/21/lyin-teds-non-endorsement-when-coherence-becomes-vice Last night, Ted Cruz preached a message of conscience and principled conservatism to the Republican National Convention. He was met with an almost deafening chorus of boos and jeers. In another election cycle, Cruz’s call to conscience receiving only disdain… Thu, 21 Jul 2016 03:05:25 EDT Neil J. Young 2a2eccea-ee5e-4cde-b9b4-7d494f905632 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/09/problem-christian-gentlemen-short-goodbye-ted-cruz-mr-pecksniff-presidential-politics Credit where credit is due. Ted Cruz has a way about him. A way that is sanctimonious, oleaginous, and false. I have been reading and hearing that there is considerable mourning among the ranks of the good Christian soldiers of… Mon, 09 May 2016 12:10:06 EDT Peter Laarman b19254d1-dd23-407e-8b65-7464b55d95df https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/06/dont-misread-russell-moores-disavowal-christian-nation-and-anti-trump-stance There’s Baptists and there’s Baptists; there’s politics, and there’s politics. Fri, 06 May 2016 03:39:20 EDT Daniel Schultz 00003684-a2b6-43e7-8084-d32a1b323834 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/05/what-will-nevertrump-faction-do-now Ted Cruz’s abrupt exit from the race for the GOP presidential nomination after his devastating 16-point loss to Donald Trump in this week’s Indiana primary was just the latest surprise in one of the most unpredictable election seasons in recent… Thu, 05 May 2016 03:36:45 EDT Neil J. Young fa986077-5cae-45d8-8b03-9fb5627494fa https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/03/trump-turns-evangelical-gop-coalition-topsy-turvy Donald Trump has a way of turning things topsy-turvy, and the religious world is certainly not exempt. The Southern Baptist Convention (or some of its leaders, anyway) have joined the Never Trump movement: Moore effectively announced his new mission in… Tue, 03 May 2016 01:54:08 EDT Daniel Schultz 03b704bf-5bac-45da-b04f-e13da65e4d71 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/02/cruz-brings-gop-nomination-toilet Now that Ted Cruz’s last hope for stopping Donald Trump rests on ginning up panic and outrage over transgender women using the ladies room, we can officially say that the Republican nominating process is in the toilet. Cruz is stoking… Mon, 02 May 2016 02:46:34 EDT Patricia Miller 0a44c394-363f-4eaa-8ced-54cfc88c7f1c https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/25/anti-lgbt-legislation-new-southern-strategy In the ramp up to both the Democratic and Republican conventions the candidates have received little scrutiny of their positions on civil rights for LGBT people, or cultural issues more generally. This is curious given the furor over a host… Mon, 25 Apr 2016 02:54:32 EDT Darren Sherkat 81540277-f486-4ddd-9f76-aafd98f78f77 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/04/real-evangelicals-dont-support-trump-not-so-fast Since Donald Trump started winning Republican primaries this winter, evangelical leaders have looked to absolve themselves of the taint that has come with the surprising news of his significant support among white evangelicals. Trump’s announcement last June that he would… Mon, 04 Apr 2016 01:48:55 EDT Neil J. Young 918c278c-0f60-4643-aa9a-622033544e30 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/01/trump-was-right-about-outlawing-abortion-it-would-punish-women Is Donald Trump really pro-life or is he just faking it, stoking his anti-abortion bona fides to appeal to the socially and religiously conservative base of the Republican Party? According to leading Catholic intellectual Robert P. George, Trump’s affirmative answer… Fri, 01 Apr 2016 11:53:19 EDT Patricia Miller da859bd4-ed85-4a17-8be8-8e1719a42818 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/30/how-do-christians-atheists-compare-muslim-tolerance Despite the clear animus of some high profile atheists, those who don’t believe in God are the most tolerant. Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:36:40 EDT Darren Sherkat 0ab1fba7-3ee9-4801-af6e-645365a58254 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/23/mormon-rejection-trump-embarrassing-evangelicals Mormons don’t like Donald Trump. That now seems abundantly clear after yesterday’s results in Utah where Ted Cruz trounced Trump, winning nearly 70 percent of the vote. With a paltry 14 percent, Trump landed far back in third place behind… Wed, 23 Mar 2016 02:40:16 EDT Neil J. Young 85062b7f-63c4-4e9d-8cf3-cead48e8067f https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/21/election-2016-postracial-blues-blackvotesmatter-evangelicals-trump-and-who-are-we-now From Trump’s support among evangelicals to Bernie Sanders’ secular Judaism to Hillary’s “voice of God” ad campaign, the religion-in-politics rule book is getting a major rewrite in 2016. And while religion watchers everywhere are laboring to make sense of this… Mon, 21 Mar 2016 08:59:42 EDT The Editors 9d28381c-4d7d-4c64-9093-196f40accd38 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/22/apocalypse-upon-us-ted-cruz-endorsement-edition I’m writing from Washington, D.C., where we are bracing for a historic blizzard that might dump more than two feet of snow on the area. Grocery and hardware stores are being emptied of food, batteries, candles, shovels, ice melt, toilet… Fri, 22 Jan 2016 04:16:09 EST Sarah Posner 2139d40b-e26e-4a33-9694-a364f192865c https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/12/cruz-induced-angst-and-christian-virtue Poor David Brooks. He wants to write about what ails the evangelical affection for Ted Cruz and what he sees as a tenuous relationship with Christian virtue, but he seems to misapprehend that compassionate conservatism is so 2000. In today’s… Tue, 12 Jan 2016 03:58:31 EST Sarah Posner e783c787-105d-4433-bb04-40b1d4cd5fd7 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/08/inside-rubio-cruz-battle-evangelical-voters In the midst of an intra-evangelical dispute over whether Ted Cruz is indeed consolidating the support of influential evangelical leaders, supporters of Marco Rubio’s campaign are trying to make the case that his appeal to evangelicals is fundamentally different from… Fri, 08 Jan 2016 04:14:44 EST Sarah Posner d87aa61d-6cf1-440e-9483-cf7ab7a95afb https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/04/problems-trumps-dogwhistle-evangelicals While Sen. Ted Cruz’s purported lock on the evangelical vote may be l argely an illusion, as noted by RD’s Sarah Posner, it’s potent enough to rattle Donald Trump into making assertions about Cruz’s religiosity that may come back to… Mon, 04 Jan 2016 01:34:56 EST Patricia Miller 34d01b2a-a321-4562-b522-f80362fb5760 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/03/cruz-and-evangelical-illusion Just after Christmas, Ted Cruz met with several hundred evangelical leaders at a Texas ranch belonging to Farris Wilks, a fracking billionaire who, along with his brother Dan and their wives, have donated $15 million to Keep the Promise II… Sun, 03 Jan 2016 04:16:56 EST Sarah Posner a7f308dd-7264-492c-9ead-10e841e895aa https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/16/party-religious-liberty-botches-debate-religion-and-constitution Remember when the presidential election, or the Republican primary, at least, was going to be about religious liberty? About how Obergefell v. Hodges eviscerated the religious freedom of “Bible-believing Christians,” who would need the big, bad overreaching government’s protection from… Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:50:04 EST Sarah Posner 92c5004d-85c3-4b4a-b968-c718c0e1f71e https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/08/trump-smashing-religious-right-formula-bits Donald Trump’s stump speeches are not, as most are, the product of careful tweaking and calibration, a search for the sweet spot between animating one’s supporters and drawing in new ones. Instead, his speeches are a desultory, malicious accounting of… Tue, 08 Dec 2015 10:27:19 EST Sarah Posner 1c64d288-5760-451f-b2bf-b9f15f63bee8 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/17/new-poll-finds-increased-xenophobic-streak-republicans-heighten-anti-muslim-rhetoric As Republican presidential candidates and governors pronounce Muslims and Syrian refugees personae non grata after the horrific massacres in Paris on Friday, a major new poll about Americans’ religious and cultural attitudes provides an ominous look at Americans’ views on… Tue, 17 Nov 2015 06:46:27 EST Sarah Posner 224ab0ba-9cbc-47ee-b70b-0abb44dfa895 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/19/god-hates-nags-why-gods-name-westboro-protesting-kim-davis Members of the infamously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) arrived in Morehead, Kentucky today to picket the Rowan County courthouse, workplace of Kim Davis, the county clerk and “religious liberty” martyr who rose to fame by refusing to issue marriage… Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:21:13 EDT Rebecca Barrett-Fox ea08a479-b5f0-4802-b5ce-17278ede543d https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/09/why-kim-davis-has-missed-her-moment Years ago, I remember Christian right leaders fretting about pastors going to jail if they expressed their anti-gay views; when that didn’t come to pass, they fretted about churches losing their tax-exempt status. These worst case scenarios never happened, because… Wed, 09 Sep 2015 04:39:37 EDT Sarah Posner 23fb23ae-b485-4dc1-9a33-6eddfb2f1ff6