Sen. Ted Cruz on the Hugh Hewitt Show

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United senator Ted Cruz to the program center cruise welcome back it's great to have you as always you know it's always great to

it you had a good night last night I was reading at C. N. N. three of the top ten conservative donors women out the bay thirty

seven million dollars in support of your bed and you were with some of those people at the Knickerbocker club I think that's always a good night I

it is bend really tremendous the underwriting support we've seen both from from

major dollar doubters who is given to the super pac over thirty seven million dollars and

then from grassroots donors where just in the very first week well you raise another four point three million dollars from

over the one thousand contribution people in all fifty states village had bruised out organ supported the campaign and Rick really

has been breathtaking given that kinda given that kind of momentum on the financial side when political

in the pack in the Hawkeye state the Texas senator looks too later voting states had you react when you saw that yeah

did it do but it is absolutely the case is number one we are competing hard and vigorously in

Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina at all Bernie at the first primary day %HESITATION and and

the grassroots or were saying there has been a bomber %HESITATION what that story talked about it in addition to that you know the the

RNC has changed the role that accelerated the proper year so after those first three day there's

going to be another twenty states rapid succession and in order to win immediately %HESITATION you're going to have to be able to run a national campaign so we're putting Baker resources and

energy in Iowa New Hampshire and South Carolina but we're also putting time and energy in the state that

follow it up so just in the past couple weeks %HESITATION I've traveled campaigned in Georgia and North Carolina

teams and place I and all of those states was well so say because they're avoiding process questions but just cutting to the to

the chase do you think we're headed for an open convention as as your political director told Katie Glock %HESITATION this is there are two thousand two hundred and seventy delegates total you need one thousand two hundred thirty six of them to wear none

one then Ohio is going to go to K. sick on March fifteenth all these different things you didn't have it open brokered

convention but it is certainly a possibility it hadn't happened in a long long time but

you've obviously got a wide field every debate Leonard that but that could happen %HESITATION historically

what has happened I is that the first three states Iowa New Hampshire and South Carolina portion

in Pakistan and they they certainly have a big impact on our momentum and so what we're doing is is

we're planning for both content %HESITATION we are going all the way down on Iowa New Hampshire South Carolina putting