Heidi Cruz Compares Husband’s White House Bid To Efforts To End Slavery

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during a rally at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis, Monday, May 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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Heidi Cruz on Tuesday compared supporters’ efforts to get her husband, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), into the White House to the years-long effort to end slavery.

Heidi Cruz made the comment in a conference call with the campaign’s National Prayer Team, The Texas Tribune reported. The Texas senator dropped out of the presidential race last week following a flailing performance in the Indiana primary, and Heidi Cruz said that she didn’t want supporters to feel as if their efforts were “in vain.”

“Be full of faith and so full of joy that this team was chosen to fight a long battle,” she reportedly said. “Think that slavery—it took 25 years to defeat slavery. That is a lot longer than four years.”

Cruz assured listeners on the call that they didn’t “give up” the race and that there was just “no viable path to victory,” according to the report. She went on to say that she felt as if her husband’s presence in the election had changed the Republican Party.

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  1. She is almost worse than he is. Anyway, I’m glad they found each other.

  2. The movement to end slavery lasted a bit longer than 25 years, Heidi.

  3. Carnival Cruz needs to elbow her in the face again. Maybe this time some reality will take over.

  4. because his effort to assert christian dominion over the unbelievers and reinstate the Inquisition is a god given job…

  5. Well, they are similar in that we ended slavery and Cruz ended his campaign.

    So there is that.

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