Ted Cruz on Fox 26 in Houston

thanks for being here crescent credibility so I mentioned it in during the break quite an overachiever you're the youngest Solicitor

General in America when you were there for five years back you know three to away to the purse to Spanish Solicitor General in Texas you've

done a lot you graduated from Princeton went on to Harvard Law School your partner in a law firm so I do want to be a senator well

I think the need has never been greater %HESITATION you look at what's happening to this country Barack Obama is the most radical

president this country's ever seen and and our country is at a precipice if we don't turn this around we're going broke I

and I were visiting a minute ago both of us have small children I've got a three year old one year old daughter I don't want them to inherit a country that is broke because

irresponsible politicians spent us into debt spend us into the condition Greece and Italy in much of Europe is and I think there's an incredible paid

for strong conservative fighters in Washington to turn this around you talk about the dead now approaching sixteen trillion dollars what do you do what you're getting plan to get that down what

you get serious about the problem has been it's been a bipartisan problem Barack Obama has driven the greatest expansion of government spending in history but

a whole lot of Republicans went along with Democrats and the big part of the reason about I got elected Republicans didn't stay in

two thousand ten we saw tidal waves with this country as the image said another we don't want these

timid career politicians they don't believe in anything except staying in power we want to get back to basic principles of liberty and

free enterprise and the constitution we just ran a story about gas prices you don't need to look very far to know how expensive they are we approaching four dollars a gallon a lot of things over four dollars a gallon you

you know it's it's funny liberal politicians they insist energy is the only market where supply and demand doesn't

work this president has waged a war on jobs and he's waged a war on oil and gas that we're seeing an explosion of

new reserves being discovered because of the technological advances and fracking in both on the oil and gas side it's

transformed it and yet you look edit production is not increasing on federal land we've had the offshore drilling moratorium we

have the EPA abusive Lee enforcing environmental laws and this makes no sense we've got the capacity within twenty years for

the United States to be fully energy independent which will have a dramatic impact on gas prices at the pump but

this president his energy secretary said he wanted to see eight dollar gas surprise surprise their

policies are leading exactly in that direction let's look at the polls when it comes to the Senate rating because lieutenant governor David Dewhurst is the favorite

some calm the heavy favorite to win your in second place in most of those polls are making a lot of headway in the race what do you do to

get your name recognition out there obviously has it he hasn't as lieutenant governor your Solicitor General but if you ask anybody in a signature Solicitor General they

a timid career politician in David do hers and what we're seeing is conservatives uniting behind this campaign on

the grassroots level David Dewhurst is blowing off the grass roots Healy skipped a total of thirty