Reports: Mike Lee To Endorse Ted Cruz

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, left, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, during a news conference with conservative Congressional Republicans at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. Cruz and Lee stand as the Senate�... Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, left, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, during a news conference with conservative Congressional Republicans at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. Cruz and Lee stand as the Senate’s dynamic duo for conservatives, crusading against President Barack Obama’s health care law while infuriating many congressional Republicans with a tactic they consider futile, self-serving and detrimental to the party’s political hopes in 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS

March 10, 2016 12:50 p.m.

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Buzzfeed News reported that Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) will endorse Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Thursday afternoon, citing two anonymous sources with knowledge of Lee’s plans.

Politico also reported that Lee will endorse Cruz in Florida on Thursday.

Lee would be the first senator to endorse Cruz’s presidential bid. The Utah senator has been closely aligned with Cruz and helped him orchestrate the 2013 federal government shutdown.

On Monday, the National Review reported that four senators would announce their endorsements of Cruz but later corrected the report.

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mantan says:

March 10, 2016

National Review reported that four senators would announce their endorsements of Cruz

Gandalf: “And I must confess that, uh, several of our group are, in fact, Dwarves.”
Beorn: “Do you call two ‘several’?”
Gandalf: “Well, uh, now you put it that way… Yes, there could be more than two.”
(More dwarves enter, Gandalf, stuttering) “Oh, and here are some more of our, uh, happy troop.”
Beorn: “And do you call six a ‘troop’? What are you, a traveling circus?”
bkmn says:

March 10, 2016

At least the flies will have an easy day. They won’t have to fly so hard to find the next pile of crap.
ajaykalra says:

March 10, 2016

Cruz: I expect all of my bigoted colleagues to fall in line and endorse me, They will have to work with me when I am POTUS, otherwise I will make their life a living hell.
steviedee111 says:

March 10, 2016
k_in_va says:

March 10, 2016

Birds of a feather and all that.

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