Ted Cruz on Fox News Sunday

no it was the upset victory in the Texas Senate Republican primary my first time candidate and tea party favorite Ted

Cruz who has flown in from taxes to join us here on Saturday the th grows welcome to

fox news Sunday thank you Chris it's great to be here Iraq this week we were just saying what an extraordinary week it's been great you've been called that

the rising Republican star the great conservative hope why do you think your victory in a primary has reg resonated

so strongly inside the GOP well I think it is part of the title wave the sweeping the whole country which

stop spending money we don't hate and and I think this was part of a tidal wave that began in two thousand ten and I think that title wave is

only stronger in twenty twelve let me ask you about that because I date the conventional wisdom in this town and for

what that's worth had been where what happened in the tea party that it was not mysteries and it didn't have the power and yes they won some victories %HESITATION

it in a few states like Indiana against luger but %HESITATION and Nebraska but but not so many are

in Texas you ran against the establishment candidate lieutenant governor David Dewhurst you've beaten by thirteen points what

do you think your victory says about the state of the tea party at this point well I think it's emblematic of

of where the tea party is nationally which is in two thousand nine two thousand ten that the movement was just beginning you

have thousands and thousands of people out in the blazing sun protesting as we've got forward to twenty eleven and twenty twelve those

protests died down I think the reason is the tea party went to work they begin rolling up their sleeves going to working campaigns getting involved and

and in our race in Texas what we saw was incredible I mean it was a victory for grassroots conservatives all over the state and and it was it

illustrated and at the end of the day the way elections are supposed to be decided they're supposed to be decided not

by a handful of people in a dark room writing checks and picking the next nominee but they're supposed to be decided by we the people and it was thousands and

thousands of Republican women in tea party leaders and grassroots activists regenerated our victory let's

take a look because a lot of people don't know who you are or what you stand for Celeste talk about that let's

look at where you stand on the issues you want to abolish the education commerce and energy departments TSA are

conservative without a doubt and I think the American people are pretty conservative and I'm certain the people of Texas are

pretty conservative but I'll tell you look at the end of the day they're sort of twin worlds that there's the world of Washington in the beltway and

then there's the rest of the country ok this spectrum in Washington you've got career politicians in both parties that

had been going along to get along a long long time and that's how we've gotten a national debt of sixteen trillion dollars larger

than the gross domestic product all across the country the rest of Americans are looking at Washington and saying what's