Ted cruz

Ted Cruz

Background information

Full name Rafael Edward Cruz

Ted was born in December 22, 1970, in Canada

He grew up in Houston, Texas. 

He studied in Princeton University and Howard Law School. Later on he worked as a lawyer, before he became a politician.  

http://www.biography.com/people/ted-cruz 

His chances of becoming the party’s nominee

Ted chances of becoming the party’s nominee is 21,8 %, while Trump’s chances of becoming the party’s nominee is 36 %. 

http://presidential-candidates.insidegov.com/compare/62-70/Ted-Cruz-vs-Donald-Trump 

Positive and negative

What’s positive and negative about him?

ISSUES: 

abortion 

Cruz will opposes churches providing birth control and opposes public abortion funding. The past, he has said at this point is that “planned parenthood sells body parts of unborn human beings” is something that he wants. 

http://ontheissues.org/Ted_Cruz.htm 

gun control 

Ted Cruz think that Obama was coming for their guns. He did also vote no on banning high- capacity magazines of over 10 bullets. Cruz thinks that the american citizens are allowed to have guns but only in self defence and harder rules on guns with a magazine of 12 bullets.

https://www.tedcruz.org/issues/

http://ontheissues.org/Ted_Cruz.htm 

https://www.tedcruz.org/news/cruz-as-president-ill-defend-the-second-amendment-rights-of-americans/ 

health care

He has no plans to guarantee health coverage for Americans with pre-existing conditions. (Something that started before a person’s health insurance went into effect) If Ted Cruz is elected president, he will repeal every word of the Obamacare. Then he will create a new health care reform. It should follow the principles of expanding competition, empowering patients and keeping government from getting between the patients and the doctors. 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/01/28/ted_cruz_s_horrifying_idea_of_health_reform.html

immigration / refugees 

It’s not that we don’t know how to solve illegal immigration. What is missing is the political will to get it done. As President, Ted Cruz will do what he says. He will stop illegal immigration. He will build a wall that works, triple border security, and put in place the surveillance and biometric tracking to secure the border. He believes that Obama is too lenient, and says that he will stop the amnesty.

http://presidential-candidates.insidegov.com/l/62/Ted-Cruz 

https://www.tedcruz.org/issues/secure-the-border/

https://www.tedcruz.org/cruz-immigration-plan-summary/ 

climate change

Cruz believes that carbon dioxide (CO2) “is good for plant life,” that the planet “is greener right now” than in the past, and that “for significant periods in history, prior to the industrial revolution, there has been markedly more CO2 in our atmosphere that could not have come from the burning of fossil fuels.” He also believes that “for the past 18 years … there has be...