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TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0United States senator Ted Cruz\u00c2\u00a0was in Tyler on Tuesday as the featured speaker at a luncheon for the Tyler Area Builders Association. According to our news partner KETK, Cruz spoke to about 200 members for the TABA and their guests at Willow Brook Country Club in Tyler.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are very pleased and honored today to have senator Ted Cruz come and speak today.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sam Mezayek, former president of the Tyler Building Association, said<\/p>\n
This is the third time in as many weeks that Senator Cruz has been in East Texas speaking about his race for the United States Senate. He said that without East Texans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 support in the 2018 election, he likely wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be in office today. He continued to thank Texas republicans for the majority support throughout the years.
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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m back here because look, the values, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all believe in strong conservative common-sense values,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cruz said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I made a very deliberate decision to lean in aggressively to East Texas and West Texas.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, he also commented on fears of Texas turning from a red state to blue.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our country is facing changes unlike any they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever seen,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cruz said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are lots of reasons people come to Texas, but the number one reason people come to Texas, is Texas is where the jobs are\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And I think we got to fight to preserve that\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0United States senator Ted Cruz\u00c2\u00a0was in Tyler on Tuesday as the featured speaker at a luncheon for the Tyler Area Builders Association. According to our news partner KETK, Cruz spoke to about 200 members for the TABA and their guests at Willow Brook Country Club in Tyler.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are very pleased and honored today … Continue reading Senator Ted Cruz speaks at TABA event<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1350503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/01\/ted-cruz-ap-pix-156x175.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 01:42:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/01\/ted-cruz-ap-pix-156x175.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1350494"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350506,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350494\/revisions\/1350506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1350503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1350494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1350494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1350494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}