{"id":157169,"date":"2025-12-23T16:35:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=157169"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:35:37","slug":"ted-cruz-weighs-another-presidential-run-setting-up-clash-with-vance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=157169","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ted Cruz weighs another presidential run, setting up clash with Vance&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/12\/22\/ted-cruz-president-2028-vance-maga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Sen. Ted Cruz sat down with a longtime ally in November at an office near D.C.\u2019s Union Station to discuss the future of the Republican Party. Before long, the discussion touched on his own future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><video playsinline=\"\"><\/video><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His friend Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, told Cruz he believed that \u201cJew hatred and Israel bashing\u201d were on the rise on the right \u2014 and that something had to be done about it. Cruz, who had begun a series of speeches decrying antisemitism in the GOP, told Klein he had been fielding requests from people urging him to run for president in 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cruz came across as someone \u201cseriously\u201d considering such a run, Klein recalled.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Sen. Ted Cruz sat down with a longtime ally in November at an office near D.C.\u2019s Union Station to discuss the future of the Republican Party. Before long, the discussion touched on his own future. His friend Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, told Cruz he believed that \u201cJew hatred and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157170,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157169\/revisions\/157170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}