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Stories by Patrick Svitek
Posted Aug 5, 2022, 11:25 am
Patrick Svitek
/Texas Tribune
Gov. Greg Abbott announced that Texas is now busing migrants from the Mexican border to New York City, the state’s latest confrontation with an East Coast city over the influx at the border - months after Texas began offering migrants rides to Washington, D.C.... Read more»
Posted Mar 4, 2021, 11:11 am
Patrick Svitek
/Texas Tribune
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Texas made a "big mistake" by removing its statewide mask mandate and suggested the decision reflected "Neanderthal thinking." The comments by the Democratic president came a day after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced he was not only ending the mask requirement but also allowing businesses to reopen at full capacity.... Read more»
Posted Nov 1, 2019, 4:29 pm
Patrick Svitek & Emma Platoff/Texas Tribune
The former El Paso congressman announced the decision Friday.... Read more»
Posted Sep 21, 2018, 6:19 pm
Patrick Svitek
/Texas Tribune
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Democratic challenger U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke held a feisty debate Friday evening at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. With video.... Read more»
Posted Apr 25, 2016, 3:42 pm
Patrick Svitek
/Texas Tribune
Texas Democrats have filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission claiming the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz violated federal election law.... Read more»
Posted Apr 25, 2016, 10:06 am
Patrick Svitek
/Texas Tribune
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential campaign is officially teaming up with rival John Kasich to deny frontrunner Donald Trump the Republican nomination.... Read more»
Posted Mar 25, 2016, 1:04 pm
Patrick Svitek
/Texas Tribune
Ted Cruz is moving further than ever away from his pledge to support Donald Trump if he is the Republican presidential nominee as the Texas senator combats a series of personal attacks from the billionaire and his supporters.
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Posted Mar 22, 2016, 10:49 am
Patrick Svitek
/Texas Tribune
In Arizona and Utah, Republican primary voters will have their clearest choice so far between Cruz, the U.S. senator Texas, and Trump, the billionaire frontrunner. Fifty-eight delegates are up for grabs in Arizona's primary and 40 in Utah's caucuses. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 19, 2016, 12:37 pm
Patrick Svitek
/Texas Tribune
As the presidential race again turns West, Ted Cruz is zeroing in on what has become the defining issue of the Republican nominating process: illegal immigration. On Friday, that renewed focus brought the U.S. senator from Texas to Arizona.... Read more»
Posted Dec 15, 2015, 1:17 pm
Patrick Svitek
/Texas Tribune
Don't get Trumped. That's the task facing Ted Cruz as he heads into the fifth Republican presidential debate in the crosshairs of the bomb-throwing billionaire. The GOP field meets again on the debate stage Tuesday night in Las Vegas... Read more»
Posted Dec 13, 2015, 12:43 pm
Patrick Svitek
/Texas Tribune
Donald Trump is expanding his criticism of Ted Cruz, once his closest ally in the Republican race for the White House, and questioning if he has the temperament to be president.... Read more»
Posted Dec 7, 2015, 11:10 am
Patrick Svitek
/Texas Tribune
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has taken his first-ever lead in an early state poll, surging past billionaire Donald Trump to the no. 1 spot in Iowa. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 21, 2015, 1:17 pm
Patrick Svitek
/Texas Tribune
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, eats a pork chop sandwich Friday at the Iowa State Fair. Cruz fielded questions throughout his trip to the fair about real estate mogul Donald Trump's controversial immigration proposals.... Read more»
Posted Jul 29, 2015, 1:46 pm
Patrick Svitek
/Texas Tribune
Sounding a deeply populist note, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday launched an offensive against banks that are too big to fail, making a pitch for Wall Street reform while tying the 2008 financial crisis to Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.... Read more»
Posted Jul 23, 2015, 1:44 pm
Patrick Svitek
/Texas Tribune
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump landed on time in South Texas on Thursday, even though a Border Patrol union here backed out of hosting him.... Read more»
Posted May 5, 2015, 12:09 pm
Patrick Svitek
/Texas Tribune
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday citizens should trust the military amid concerns about a training exercise scheduled to begin this summer in Texas and Arizona that has riled conspiracy theorists.... Read more»