https://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/07/31/ted-cruz-rises-to-victory-in-texas-senate-republican-runoff/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 08:29:09 -0400<![CDATA[All along, for more than two years, former Texas solicitor general Ted Cruz has held two strategies as the keys to being elected as the Republican Senate nominee from Texas. The first strategy would see him spending week after week on the road all across the Lone Star State. A relative unknown who had only held an obscure appointed office, and with no elective office victories on his resume but a strong story to tell, Cruz would boost his name ID across the state by visiting every inch of it. So for about two years, Cruz and his campaign manager John Drogin reached out to every Republican club in just about every town in Texas. From the panhandle to the Rio Grande Valley, from El Paso to the piney woods out east, Cruz would drive from one end of the huge state to the other, speaking to every club of every size that would hear him. He explained his message of smaller government, fighting for Texas values against Washington encroachment, and he told his family&#8217;s tale of exile from tyranny in Castro&#8217;s Cuba. Cruz was already out there telling this story when I moved back to Texas in 2009. The former solicitor general&#8217;s name ID inched up week upon week.]]>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:31:23 -0400<![CDATA[Bryan Preston]]>https://pjmedia.com/bryan-preston-1/2012/07/31/ted-cruz-rises-to-victory-in-texas-senate-republican-runoff-n169197