of the impeachment hearings of Donald Trump. After the hearings ended the podcast expanded its content to include other topics and interviews, including with Washington politicians such as U.S. Senators Tim Scott, Lindsey Graham, and Mike Lee, Trump administration officials including White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, then-U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, and actors Jon Voight and Isaiah Washington. Personal life Cruz married Heidi Nelson on May 27, 2001; they have two daughters, Caroline (b. circa 2008) and Catherine (b. circa 2011). The couple met when Cruz was working on George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign. Heidi took leave from her position as head of the Southwest Region in the Investment Management Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in 2016 to support Cruz's run for president. She previously worked in the White House for Condoleezza Rice and in New York as an investment banker. Cruz lives in River Oaks, Houston. Cruz has joked, "I'm Cuban, Irish, and Italian, and yet somehow I ended up Southern Baptist." He is fond of wearing cowboy boots, but he refrained from doing so when arguing before the Rehnquist court. As of 2018, according to OpenSecrets, Cruz's net worth was more than $3.1 million. On March 8, 2020, Cruz began self-isolation after contact with a person infected with COVID-19 at the ACU's Conservative Political Action Conference. Staying at his home in Texas, he avoided contact with colleagues and constituents for 14 days. Cruz said he had been advised that the odds of contracting the virus were very low. Electoral history See also Conspiracy theories related to the Trump–Ukraine scandal List of foreign-born United States politicians Legal challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act List of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States Congress List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Chief Justice) List of United States senators born outside the United States Donald Trump Supreme Court candidates References External links Campaign website Appearances at the U.S. Supreme Court from the Oyez Project Ted Cruz collected news and commentary at The Texas Tribune R. (Ted) Edward Cruz – profile at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (archived) Verdict with Ted Cruz Ted Cruz podcast with co-host Michael Knowles |- |- |- |- 1970 births 21st-century American politicians American people of Canadian descent American people of Irish descent American people of Italian descent