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                 Ted Cruz Announces Candidacy for US President

   by VOA News

   Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced Monday he is running for U.S.
   president in the country's 2016 election.

   Cruz had hinted he would formally launch his bid for the Republican
   Party nomination, and made it official in a message and video on his
   Twitter account just after midnight Monday.

   "I believe in America and her people, and I believe we can stand up and
   restore our promise," Cruz said in the campaign ad, appealing to what
   he calls "a new generation of conservatives."

   The 44-year-old first term senator is the first high-profile Republican
   candidate to formally join the race.  Several other Republican
   contenders are expected to follow in the coming weeks.

   Cruz, who joined the Senate in 2013 is a favorite of the conservative
   Tea Party.  He wants to repeal President Barack Obama's health care
   law, abolish the tax-collecting Internal Revenue Service and scrap the
   Education Department.

   Among Republican politicians expected to announce a candidacy are
   former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker,
   former Texas governor Rick Perry, and Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky
   and Florida's Marco Rubio.

   The son of an American mother and Cuban-born father, Cruz would be the
   nation's first Hispanic president.  While born in Canada, two lawyers
   who represented presidents from both parties at the Supreme Court
   recently wrote in the Harvard Law Review that Cruz meets the
   constitutional standard to run.
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