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By Miriam Raftery
Photos by Nadin Abbott, Reporting San Diego
April 12, 2016 (San Diego) --“California is going to decide the presidential race,” Texas Senator Ted Cruz told a crowd of about 2,000 people in San Diego Monday night.
Speaking at a Republican meeting at the Town and Country Hotel’s Golden Ballroom, Cruz praised California as the “birthplace of the Reagan revolution.” Earlier in the day, the Senator spoke in Irvine, kicking off his California campaign.
Cruz still trails billionaire businessman Donald Trump in delegates, but has gained momentum after trouncing Trump in the most recent presidential primaries.
He is running on a platform of restoring “real conservative values” if elected. He supports:
- Establishment of a flat tax and abolishment of the IRS
- Cracking down on immigration including building a border wall
- Boosting defense spending and defeating Islamic terrorism
- Banning abortion even in cases of rape
- Support for the 2nd Amendment including open carry laws
- Slashing government regulation including eliminating the Environmental Protection Agency
In a pre-rally interview with KUSI, he quipped “If I could have done anything I’d love to be a Hollywood movie star but I didn’t have the talent or good looks to do that, so I’m stuck being a lawyer.”
He noted he has won 11 elections in the last 3 weeks. He says the Republican Party is “uniting behind our campaign,” adding that 50 California elected officials have thus far endorsed him. A former litigator who has argued cases before the Supreme Court, he calls himself a strict “Constitutionalist.”
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