Sen. Cruz Endorses "Close Friend" Gov. Abbott

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US Sen. Ted Cruz gave an emphatic endorsement to Gov. Greg Abbott and his re-election bid. 

He said Wednesday about Abbott:

"He campaigned for me, he fought for me. I can tell you very, very simply, if it were not for Greg abbott, I would not be in the US Senate. ... I think primaries are a healthy thing in politics. But I got to say, as for me, I'm gonna vote for Greg Abbott. And to be honest, I think I'd be a disloyal jackass if I didn't vote for him in our two decades of our working side by side."

Cruz's remarks came during a town hall in Grapevine organized by the True Texas Project, a conservative group previously known as the NE Tarrant Tea Party. 

The group says over 500 people attended the monthly meeting, which was streamed to over 200 more throughout the state.

An audience member stated that the crowd favors "anyone but Abbott" in 2022 and asked Cruz if he would commit to endorsing one of Abbott's primary challengers or commit to staying out of the primary altogether.

Longer excerpt of the senator's remarks, here:

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Tarrant County Tea Party Group Opposes GOP Rep. Who "Normalizes" Gays

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A Tarrant County tea party group won’t be attending a February dinner for the local Republican Party, sharing an article that promotes the idea the event’s keynote speaker is “trying to force-feed the normalization of homosexuality within the party.”

The excerpt, titled, "Tarrant GOP Taps Homosexuality Promoting Millennial for Keynote Speaker," was from the conservation online paper, "Current Revolt."

It was shared in a Jan. 3 post on True Texas Project’s Facebook page in reference to U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a 25-year-old Republican who recently won a North Carolina House seat.

Cawthorn is the keynote speaker for the Tarrant County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner on Feb. 6. In a recent interview with Fox News, Cawthorn said he wanted the Republican Party defined as the “Freedom Party.”

Last week, Cwthorn called those who participated in the Capitol riot, "disgusting and pathetic."

The Tarrant County tea party organization recently changed their name to True Texas Project as part of a rebranding effort.

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