article_snippet: Cruz, voted into the Senate during the last presidential election in 2012, has selected a Christian college in Virginia as the backdrop for the public unveiling of Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush national enterprise.
article_snippet: The political front was mostly quiet on Monday morning, however, as Cruz prepared to lay out Cruz vision for America in a convocation speech at Liberty, the largest Christian higher-education institution in America, save for a few tweets from Cruz well-known detractors .
article_snippet: The Democratic National Committee hit Paul several times over the social media network as the 'architect of the disastrous 2013 government shutdown' and forwarded reporters an article positing that Cruz, a Hispanic whose father fled communist Cuba, could actually 'make the relationship between Republicans and Latinos even tougher.'
article_snippet: The premise of the Fusion piece was that in making Paul debut as a national candidate at a university 'whose student body is at least half white,' Cruz, whose policies on issues like immigration are already considered 'divisive' by some, won't attract the kind of support from minority groups that one would expect given Paul family tree.
article_snippet: American Bridge, a progressive, political action committee, tweeted that that the GOP's 'race to the extreme starts today' with Cruz's personal announcement.
article_snippet: In a statement the group's president, Brad Woodhouse, also went after Cruz for his role in the 2013 Senate standoff that left the government in limbo for more than two weeks. '
article_snippet: Cruz shut down the government in a tantrum, opposes marriage equality, denies climate change, and opposes a woman’s right to choose even in cases of rape or incest,' Woodhouse said. '
article_snippet: Cruz’s everything voters hate about the modern Republican Party in one candidate' Woodhouse claimed, 'and the entire field is already signing on to Cruz positions.'