Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) credited himself with creating a movement through his failed presidential campaign and flirted with the idea of running again in an long, emotional video titled “No Regrets” posted online Wednesday.
The more than five-minute-long video opens with Jeff Roe, Cruz’s presidential campaign manager, speaking over instrumental music about how Cruz ran a nearly “regret-free campaign.“
“We literally did every single thing we could do,” Roe said.
The Texas senator doesn’t appear himself until almost two minutes into the video. The video pans over supporters who worked on Cruz’s campaign as he thanks them for their service.
“What we accomplished is frankly insane,” Cruz said, arguing that his campaign “sparked a fire and started a movement.”
“And that’s powerful and it doesn’t go away with one election,” he continued.
Cruz said he was sad but knew the campaign did “everything we could.”
“It’s going to be our task to go forward and continue, fighting for that movement. It has been the greatest honor of my life to be in this foxhole,” Cruz said, getting choked up. “Twenty, 30, 40 years from now the people in this room, the people across this country will say I was part of this.”
The music crescendos as a variety of people are shown making calls, talking, smiling and crying. The video ends with the words “to be continued” across the screen. Cruz has filed the paperwork to campaign again for the Senate.
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