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June 17, 2016 11:06 AM UTC

Ted Cruz Backs Darryl Glenn in GOP Senate Race

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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (left) is backing Darryl Glenn for Senate in Colorado.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (left) is backing Darryl Glenn for Senate in Colorado.

UPDATE: ProgressNow Colorado weighs in on the Cruz endorsement:

“Even after losing the Republican presidential nomination to Donald Trump, Ted Cruz still has significant influence in Colorado Republican politics,” said ProgressNow Colorado executive director Ian Silverii. “Darryl Glenn’s far-right agenda is exactly what Ted Cruz and out-of-state conservative ideologues want.”

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Big news for Republican Senate candidate Darryl Glenn, as the National Review reports:

Ted Cruz is set to wade back into politics after a brief respite with an endorsement for Colorado GOP Senate candidate Darryl Glenn…

…Cruz praises Glenn as “a constitutional conservative with the experience to understand what it takes to bring back economic growth and preserve our individual liberties.”

Endorsements from prominent national political figures aren’t always as meaningful as they might appear, especially when they come with less than two weeks to go until Election Day, but Ted Cruz backing Glenn in Colorado’s five-way Senate Primary will almost certainly move the needle for the El Paso County Commissioner. Cruz’s endorsement of Glenn is a national story, since Glenn marks the Texas Senator’s first real foray back into partisan politics since he dropped out of the race for President last month. Glenn is the first candidate to receive an endorsement from Cruz since the latter was still battling Donald Trump.

“Darryl earned the support of 70 percent of the delegates present at the Colorado GOP convention and is a committed public servant and small business owner who bravely served our nation as a U.S. Air Force officer,” Cruz said in a Friday morning statement. “He is a constitutional conservative with the experience to understand what it takes to bring back economic growth and preserve our individual liberties.”

As of Thursday morning, the Colorado Secretary of State’s office was reporting that only about 7.5% of Republican voters had returned their mail ballots; the vast majority of Republican Primary voters are still pondering their choices, which gives Cruz a big opportunity to flex his political muscles in Colorado. Cruz dominated the Colorado Republican Convention in April, sweeping the available delegates on the same day that Glenn picked up a surprise 70% of GOP votes to earn top-line status on the Primary ballot.

Cruz is reportedly planning to campaign with Glenn on Monday; this would give Glenn a huge earned media boost late in the race — something Glenn certainly needs given his general inability to raise serious money for his own paid media efforts. Such a late endorsement from a politician of Cruz’s stature also indicates a belief that Glenn has a strong chance of winning the Republican Senate nomination; Cruz is nothing if not politically-practical, and it’s hard to believe that he’d stick his neck out like this without feeling confident in Glenn’s chances.

Chris Meagher, a spokesperson for the Colorado Democratic Party, was quick to jump on the endorsement news:

“Colorado doesn’t need a far right, never-compromise conservative in the Senate, and it’s clear from Ted Cruz’s endorsement of Darryl Glenn – that’s exactly who Glenn would be.”

And that’s exactly what Glenn is hoping Republican voters will conclude as they fill out their ballots.

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13 thoughts on “Ted Cruz Backs Darryl Glenn in GOP Senate Race

  1. His last endorsement, that of Carly Fiorina for VP, worked out fabulously.  I see no reason to think this one will not have the same fate.

          1. Leave it to a Republican to come up with the best nic-name for Trump!  This is even better than lil' Marco's take down of him over his tiny little hands!  🙂

    1. Just refound mine which got stuffed in a drawer while tidying up. Still I wouldn't expect a big response from Dems who have few to no contested races. I'm only doing it to keep my perfect record. Most voters couldn't care less about their record.

  2. Why does Cruz stress Glenn as a small business owner? I'd not heard that before – and can't find anything about that except for Glenn as a lawyer. Do you think it is just bad staff work from Cruz trying to check every box for his favorite candidate?

    1. Calling Glenn a "small business owner" is a stretch. You can read Glenn's bio and see plenty of business-related experience, all of it while he was working for the military in weapons procurement and implementation.

      His Commissioner experience has also included some business decisions  – deciding to continue losing money on the dirty, inefficient Drake power plant, for starters.

      Or ignoring (for years) all of the warning signs that Sheriff Terry Maketa was screwing over El Paso County financially, as well as screwing his staff members. That choice on Glenn’s part has culminated in hundreds of thousands in compensation for Sheriff’s Department employees for discrimination suits. I’m editing, so putting in links is hard, but it’s easy enough to find.

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