Sen.-elect Ted Cruz of Texas is a bright young Hispanic star who will be sworn in this week in Washington. The Republican Party nationally hopes Cruz will be part of the solution to its growing problem luring Hispanic voters.
Almost nobody had heard of Cruz when he began his campaign for the U.S. Senate. But when he stepped in front of a microphone, he could light up a room in a way that made the other Republican candidates seem lifeless.
“We’re here to talk about politics,” Cruz told a group of West Texas Republican women on the campaign trail. “If you go back to the ancient Greek, politics had two parts: ‘poly’ meaning many and ‘tics’ meaning blood-sucking parasites.”
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