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\n An ice cream social at a supporter\u2019s house. A meet-and-greet with veterans. A roundtable with sheriffs. An evening rally at a sweltering barbecue joint and a winding photo line afterward.\n <\/p>

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\n Ted Cruz\u2019s Monday schedule in South Carolina looked a lot like his itinerary a decade ago when he was campaigning for president here. But the Texas senator is not running again \u2014 at least not yet.\n <\/p>\n

\n Rather, Cruz had traveled to the early GOP primary battleground to stump for state Attorney General Alan Wilson, a longtime ally who won Tuesday\u2019s Republican runoff for governor.\n <\/p>\n

\n From allies to adversaries, past supporters to potential rivals, and the primary voters who may ultimately decide his fate, there\u2019s near-unanimous agreement in the Republican Party on this: Cruz is laying the groundwork for another presidential campaign, even if it means taking on Vice President JD Vance or whoever President Donald Trump ultimately endorses.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI would be shocked if he doesn\u2019t run,\u201d said Bob Vander Plaats, an influential conservative figure in Iowa who was a national co-chair of Cruz\u2019s 2016 campaign. Cruz and Vander Plaats reunited last month when Cruz went to campaign for Republicans in Iowa.\n <\/p>\n

\n Cruz remains a prolific fundraiser with ties to some of the party\u2019s biggest donors. He successfully endorsed Wilson and another recent gubernatorial contender, Rick Jackson in Georgia, over Trump-backed rivals. And he has built a considerable following in the new media ecosystem driving Republican politics.\n <\/p>\n

\n Speaking to CNN in South Carolina, Cruz waved off 2028 speculation, saying he is \u201call in\u201d on helping Republicans save their congressional majorities in the midterms.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI will be on the road a lot campaigning for that, and there\u2019ll be plenty of time to worry about future elections in the future,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n But Texas Sen. John Cornyn recently observed to Semafor that Cruz \u201cwants to be the next president.\u201d Vance, Trump\u2019s most likely political heir, told Megyn Kelly that Cruz is \u201cclearly\u201d running.\n <\/p>\n

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\n A new Cruz campaign would test whether there is space in the Republican Party for someone who straddles the ideological divide between the pre-Trump and post-Trump GOP. While Cruz has cast himself as a reliable White House ally in the Senate, he has also voiced skepticism of Trump\u2019s tariff strategy, publicly questioned the administration\u2019s targeting of ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel, and has remained critical of Big Tech even as top Silicon Valley leaders build their relationships with the president.\n <\/p>\n

\n Perhaps most significantly, Cruz has emerged as one of the most vocal Republican critics of the US-Iran peace deal. Vance is leading the US delegation in negotiations with Tehran.\n <\/p>\n

\n Cruz has long been open about wanting to run for president again, calling his 2016 run \u201cthe most fun I\u2019ve ever had in my life.\u201d He said in 2023 that he would \u201cfully hope and expect to run again at some point.\u201d This week, Cruz will address the Road to Majority Conference, an annual gathering of Christian conservatives put on by the Faith and Freedom Coalition. It\u2019s a room full of the kinds of voters and leaders that once embraced Cruz\u2019s presidential aspirations but moved to Trump.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cHis profile has only risen,\u201d said Vander Plaats. \u201cHe\u2019s on Fox News a lot, he\u2019s got a top-rated podcast. People hear of him, they see of him. They view him as a fighter for the agenda.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n That podcast, \u201cVerdict,\u201d airs multiple times a week and often reaches more than a million listeners, providing a uniquely large platform within the party. On an episode last week, Cruz extensively scrutinized the Iran negotiations, saying Trump is getting \u201cvery poor advice\u201d and that giving Iran access to up to $300 billion would be a \u201cvery serious mistake.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Within Trump\u2019s inner circle, a Cruz 2028 campaign is treated as all but certain, rankling White House allies who are intent on protecting the president\u2019s power to dictate the future of MAGA and the party. The frustration spilled into the open last week as Trump allies \u2014 including the president\u2019s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. \u2014 pounced on Cruz for attacking the Iran deal and accused him of posturing for future primary voters.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cNo one takes him seriously as a contender,\u201d said Alex Bruesewitz, a Trump adviser and one of those Cruz critics. \u201cWill he run? Absolutely, because his ego is 10 times bigger than the state he represents. He has no support. But he\u2019ll have a war chest and an apparatus because he\u2019s done this before.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Even those who stood with Cruz in 2016 now acknowledge the climb he faces to recapture the hearts of GOP voters.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cA decade is a long time in between runs, and a lot has changed,\u201d said conservative talk show host Steve Deace, an early Cruz backer in 2016 when he hosted a show on Iowa\u2019s airwaves. \u201cThe ultimate voice that matters is Chief MAGA: Trump. We\u2019re all watching, but it\u2019s really a primary of one.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Cruz\u2019s positioning\n<\/h2>\n

\n A 2028 campaign by Cruz would be another audacious move in a political career marked by them.\n <\/p>\n

\n Cruz arrived in the Senate in 2013 as a conservative insurgent, a profile he parlayed into a 2016 presidential campaign that won the Iowa caucuses and posed the most serious threat to Trump\u2019s march to the nomination. While Cruz and Trump fought bitterly then, they eventually patched things up and grew closer, including during Cruz\u2019s closer-than-expected 2018 Senate race against Democrat Beto O\u2019Rourke.\n <\/p>\n

\n Now, Cruz chairs the powerful Senate Commerce Committee and touts himself as Trump\u2019s \u201cstrongest ally\u201d in the Senate. Trump has called Cruz a good friend but has also reminded his former rival who ended up the top dog in 2016.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe had quite a campaign against Ted and it worked out quite nicely,\u201d Trump said last year when asked about Cruz\u2019s 2028 ambitions.\n <\/p>\n

\n On trade, Cruz has said he is \u201cnot a fan\u201d of tariffs and warned last year that Trump\u2019s sweeping global trade war could be \u201cterrible for America.\u201d On foreign policy, Cruz has long said he occupies the \u201cthird point of a triangle\u201d where the other points represent interventionism and isolationism.\n <\/p>\n

\n Cruz is a fierce defender of the US-Israel alliance in the face of growing MAGA skepticism. He has confronted antisemitism head-on within the GOP and has accused influential figures like Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson of giving oxygen to bigotry.\n <\/p>

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\n \u201cI am going to do everything I can to fight and defeat this poison, and we will not let it destroy our party or our nation,\u201d Cruz said during his recent visit to Iowa, where he called Carlson \u201cthe single most dangerous\u201d person pushing antisemitism on the right, a charge Carlson denies. The two sparred on Carlson\u2019s podcast last year, which included a heated back-and-forth over Israel.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Reached by phone Wednesday, Carlson said of Cruz\u2019s remarks: \u201cI\u2019ve never met a single person in 50 years who likes Ted Cruz or agrees that a senator\u2019s job is to defend a foreign country. I think Ted is speaking to and for his donors, and I assume they\u2019ll be the only ones voting for him. But he\u2019s welcome back on my show anytime.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n On each of those issues, there is daylight with Vance. The vice president has vocally defended Trump\u2019s tariff policies, has been more skeptical of foreign intervention \u2014 a stance that Trump has tested at times \u2014 and he has downplayed the idea that antisemitism is \u201cexploding\u201d on the right. He has declined to criticize Carlson, suggesting he is a valuable part of the political coalition that elected Trump in 2024.\n <\/p>\n

\n Vance sarcastically remarked in a recent interview that if he does not run in 2028, the \u201ccommitted, non-interventionist, America-First Ted Cruz\u201d could carry his banner inside the party.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cHe\u2019s clearly running for president,\u201d Vance added, more seriously.\n <\/p>\n

\n Mike Gonzalez, a South Carolina pastor who co-chaired Cruz\u2019s 2016 campaign there, said Cruz could run in 2028 as a \u201cstrict constitutional conservative versus that nationalism, populism, kind of candidate that Trump has\u201d inspired.\n <\/p>\n

\n Another Cruz 2016 supporter, the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, said Cruz \u201cleans toward old-school fiscal conservatism\u201d and was not necessarily being \u201chawkish\u201d toward Iran but \u201cthe angst and concern of the American electorate \u2026 because we don\u2019t trust Iran.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Both agreed that a primary between Vance and Cruz could benefit the party. Gonzalez said he would \u201clove to see (Cruz) and JD Vance debate toe-to-toe.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n \u201cI truly believe that this is a healthy discussion that the party must have and that the conservative movement should have going forward, post-President Trump,\u201d Rodriguez said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Deace anticipates Cruz\u2019s support for Israel would remain popular with many older evangelical voters that are key to nominating contests in Iowa and South Carolina, as well as with some top GOP donors like Miriam Adelson, who has a longstanding relationship with the Texas Republican.\n <\/p>\n

\n Deace said the issue of Israel \u201cgives Ted a lane to at least justify running again and it\u2019ll be enough for Ted to be welcomed back as a candidate.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cBut he\u2019s going to have to show he has broader MAGA appeal to win,\u201d Deace added.\n <\/p>\n

\n The challenge could be seen earlier this year at the Conservative Political Action Conference held just outside Dallas. There, Cruz outlined a vision for a Republican Party that combines Trump\u2019s populism and bedrock GOP principles like small government, low taxes and limited regulations.\n <\/p>\n

\n The home-state crowd warmly received their junior senator. But when CPAC organizers polled attendees on their pick for president in 2028, Vance was the overwhelming favorite followed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.\n <\/p>\n

\n Just 1% picked Cruz.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Cruz\u2019s endorsement of Wilson made him a key figure in a political debacle for Trump in South Carolina. Trump endorsed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette in the primary, but after she advanced to a runoff against Wilson, Cruz endorsed Wilson and a pro-Cruz super PAC launched TV ads boosting him.\n <\/p>\n

\n Evette sought to make Cruz\u2019s skepticism of the Iran peace deal a liability for Wilson, calling on him to condemn Cruz\u2019s \u201cattacks on President Trump.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump announced two days later he would be supporting both candidates in the runoff. Cruz downplayed any tensions with Trump over the contest, telling CNN they \u201cagree on the vast majority of races, and I was very pleased to see that the president agreed with me on this one.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Alumni of Cruz\u2019s 2016 campaign attended some of his stops with Wilson, and Cruz deployed some lines that were staples of his old stump speech.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cGod bless the great state of South Carolina,\u201d Cruz said after taking the microphone Monday evening in Columbia, addressing a packed barbecue restaurant. He drew applause while reviving his call to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and put a \u201cpadlock\u201d on its headquarters, a promise he made repeatedly in 2016.\n <\/p>\n

\n Cruz paid homage to South Carolina repeatedly and bantered with local reporters about his barbecue preferences. \u201cThe best sauce is no sauce at all,\u201d he opined.\n <\/p>\n

\n During an earlier stop in Sumter, a town about an hour outside Columbia, an audience member asked Cruz about his interest in serving on the Supreme Court. He gave the response he has given for years: While it is \u201cflattering\u201d to be talked about that way, he could never withdraw from \u201cpolitical fights\u201d the way a justice would have to.\n <\/p>\n

\n After the Columbia event, Robert Alt, a 78-year-old retiree from nearby Chapin, said it was \u201ctoo early\u201d for 2028 speculation but said Cruz is among several potential candidates that he likes.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI think that right now Vance, I would say, is probably the chosen one,\u201d Alt said, \u201cbut that doesn\u2019t mean that he\u2019s going to be chosen.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The attendees suggested they saw a pathway for Cruz even if Vance runs. Jim Hartman, an 85-year-old insurance agent from Columbia, praised both Cruz and Vance but said he thought Cruz was a more committed conservative who would \u201cstand firm.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Michael Alfaro, a 40-year-old Wilson supporter who came to the Columbia rally, said Cruz\u2019s decision to endorse Wilson when Trump was exclusively backing Evette \u201cis going to be remembered here\u201d and could even serve as a \u201croadmap\u201d for the Texas Republican in the future.\n <\/p>

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\n Why? \u201cBecause he\u2019s going to run for president,\u201d Alfaro said.\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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