Ted Cruz to be San Diego GOP Keynoter as Doable 2024 Presidential Prospect
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, eyeing a 2024 operate for president, is becoming marketed as the keynote speaker at the area Republican Party’s annual fundraising occasion.
San Diego County GOP officers didn’t respond to requests for comment. But a spokesperson for the 2016 White House wannabe mentioned Sunday he would show up at the Sept. 18 Lincoln Reagan Dinner at the downtown waterfront Marriott Marquis.
This will be the initial Lincoln Reagan Supper due to the fact 2019. In 2020, the well-known occasion was postponed from June 13 to Sept. 3, but ultimately was canceled amid the pandemic.
This year’s evening meal will come 4 times after California’s remember election.
Cruz frequented San Diego in April 2016, and mocked prospect Donald Trump ahead of the state’s June principal.
“It’s quick to discuss about earning The us wonderful all over again,” he instructed much more than 1,000 people today at the City & Country Lodge Vacation resort in Mission Valley. “You can even print that on a baseball cap.”
Concerning Trump’s accusations about a “rigged” Colorado delegate battle, Cruz mentioned: “He yells and scream and stamps his foot. He curses and yells, and insults anybody close by. As we know in the condition of California, whine is what is served with cheese.
“To set it merely: Donald, it isn’t thieving when the voters vote against you. It is the voters reclaiming this place.”
Three weeks after his Mission Valley take a look at — and having endorsements from San Diegans and Pete Wilson, the former San Diego mayor and California governor — Cruz dropped out of the race.
(Trump received the California GOP presidential principal with approximately 75% of the vote.)
Cruz, 50, was re-elected a U.S. senator in 2018, edging Beto O’Rourke by 2.6 share details.
After Trump’s move to the Oval Place of work, Cruz turned a vocal booster of the New York businessman and truth Tv star, even backing Trump’s stolen-election falsehood.
“The Republican Get together of San Diego County’s 2021 Lincoln Reagan Supper … is 1 of the largest Republican Dinners in The us, bringing together additional than 500 business enterprise and political leaders from throughout California,” the party’s website says.
“It is THE do-not-overlook occasion of the year for top elected officials, candidates, firms, small business leaders and affiliated groups. Just about every vital chief in 1 home — at a person time.”
Particular person tickets are priced at $250 a person. VIP tickets are $500, “which will include a VIP Reception, Image Prospect, and Gold Sponsorship Stage Seating.” A table for eight goes for $2,500.
In 2019, the keynoter was Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky. In 2018, Gov. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska spoke, alongside with Rep. Devin Nunes.
On July 1, Cruz appeared on Newsmax and told visitor host Tom Basile on “The Chris Salcedo Show” that “well, sure” he’s looking at one more operate for the White Home but also would be satisfied looking for a 3rd phrase in Congress. Born Rafael Edward Cruz in Calgary, Alberta, he was the very first Latino to provide as a U.S. senator from Texas.
His race for the GOP presidential nomination was “the most entertaining I have at any time had in my daily life,” Cruz stated.
“We arrived exceptionally close,” he reported. “Had an outstanding grassroots military of 326,000 volunteers nationwide. And so regardless of whether it is in the Senate, or no matter if it is in a presidential campaign, I am committed to preventing to defend cost-free enterprise, to defend liberty and defend the Structure and Monthly bill of Legal rights.”
On Saturday, Cruz spoke in Central Town, Iowa, at a rally for Rep. Ashley Hinson, who formally declared her bid for re-election.
“The road to revival comes by Iowa, and the street to carry The usa back to greatness arrives via the terrific point out of Iowa,” Cruz reported.
Longtime San Diego political observer Carl Luna states Cruz is coming to San Diego simply because the Texan is operating for president — and has been considering that he entered the Senate.
“But ‘running’ for president no for a longer time usually means a candidate in fact thinks they can turn out to be president,” claimed Luna, a San Diego Mesa School professor.
Luna reported Monday that this sort of very long-odds races as Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey’s towards Rep. Scott Peters in the 52nd District and John Cox and Kevin Faulconer for governor are workout routines in brand-making, “establishing the prospect as a player in countrywide (or area or condition) politics.”
Working also permits candidates to develop fundraising machines that give them political leverage.
“No Republican is going to have a first rate shot at the 2024 nomination as extended as Donald Trump isn’t clearly and completely out of the race,” he claims. “Cruz is coming to San Diego to show that he is appropriate to presidential politics, to use San Diego (and California) for what GOP candidates have performed for many years — as a campaign fund ATM.”
It is all to posture Cruz to soar in if Trump is not a element in 2024.
“Think of his take a look at like the previous rock bands enjoying Pala and Sycuan — they’re not aiming to have a new leading 40 hit but rake in the bucks on their past golden oldies,” Luna claimed.
Current at 11:47 a.m. Aug. 30, 2021
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