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Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign may not get many endorsements from Senate colleagues. Not coincidentally, the Texas senator is racking up support from primary challengers who tried but failed to unseat some of those senators last year.

Ted Cruz’s big problem: There isn’t really an ‘evangelical vote’ right now

On Friday night, while the political media was transfixed watching Donald Trump’s in-all-ways-secular stump ramble in Mobile, Ala., Ted Cruz was holding a deliberately religious rally in Des Moines.

Jeff Duncan, the popular and conservative representative from South Carolina’s Third Congressional District, held his fifth annual Faith and Freedom Barbecue Monday night. The Anderson Civic Center was packed with 1,800 to 1,900 Republicans who came to hear leading GOP presidential contenders Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, and Scott Walker.

Two weeks ago former Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced that his campaign would not be able to pay staff any longer, at least until fundraising picked up. The good news for Perry is that apparently he has managed to kick-start his fundraising program, although not in time to keep one of their key allies in Iowa. From Breitbart:

Back in Business? Rick Perry Paying Staff Again

Good news for former Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX): – the campaign has resumed paying some of ... Read More >>

Ted Cruz seeks to lock down conservatives in South Carolina

Three presidential candidates came to Rep. Jeff Duncan’s Faith and Freedom BBQ here in South Carolina’s northwest corner on Monday, but only Sen. Ted Cruz brought a crowd with him.

Trump dominates GOP field in S.C. poll

Donald Trump holds a commanding lead among likely Republican primary voters in South Carolina, according to a new Monmouth University poll released Tuesday.

Cruz’s evangelical outreach shifts into high gear

Sen. Ted Cruz, who has assiduously courted evangelicals throughout his presidential run, will take a lead role in the launch this week of an ambitious 50-state campaign to end taxpayer support for Planned Parenthood — a move that is likely to give the GOP candidate a major primary-season boost in the fierce battle for social-conservative and evangelical voters.