
“She tells this poignant story … about their daughters coming to Washington. "His wife spends some time talking about how his children miss him and consider him a ‘guest’ when he actually comes home,” Kruse says. Most weeks when Congress is in session, he gets on a plane for Washington Monday mornings. There’s one section, for example where his wife Heidi Cruz speaks about the hardships of Cruz being gone from their home in Houston and their daughters for long stretches of time. There are step-parents mentioned. You get a sense that they're a little bit more real than you thought and real in ways, that just average American mishmashed families are in the 21st century." “What you see here that is different is that it's a family dealing with a lot of the burdens of modern America. "The Ted Cruz family story centers mostly, or has to this point centered mostly, around his father, Cuba, their coming to Texas,” Kruse says. The videos also show members of Cruz’s family that have yet to make it to the spotlight – his nephew, his wife and daughters, his mother. The videos include long sessions with Cruz and his father, who are seasoned at public speaking. “It's an interesting glimpse and the fact that it is so uncut in that form in those 15 hours is what in my opinion give it its value." “What is interesting about these 15 hours is that they are raw, they are uncut, the camera just keeps rolling,” Kruse says. The posted videos consist of footage for ads or potential material that could be used in future ads, Kruse says. In these videos there were some clues certainly added to our understanding." “In this highly mediated, highly managed age it becomes harder and harder to know who these candidates are. So I think people are looking for clues as to who is he? Who is he really?” Kruse says. "He is, at this point, ascendant in the GOP primaries. But Kruse says the videos went mostly unnoticed until a few weeks ago, when media outlets found them and started watching them a bit more closely. The videos were posted to Cruz’s senate campaign Cruz’s family beyond the story of his Cuban father, American mother and Canadian birth.ġ5 hours watching some unusual videos of candidate Cruz and wrote about the experience for Politico. Hillary Clinton's campaign chair, told donors that his prediction for the 2016 race would be a contest between Clinton and Sen.Ĭlinton has a long history in politics and a family whose history is often in the public spotlight, but not much is known about Sen. It's the first debates since GOP candidateĭonald Trump declared Muslims should be prohibited from entering the United States.

‘Like if I have to walk around the neighborhood or my friend’s house or something, I have to have two security guards behind me the whole time.From Texas Standard:The last of the 2015 Republican presidential debates is slated for Tuesday. He said, ‘I really have to follow me everywhere. However, Caroline’s list of ‘bad things’ was a more detailed and exposed public perception of her high-security life, appearance expectations, and her beliefs. Highlighting the positives, she said: ‘There are some good things we get when we get candy and gifts in the mail. Giving details about her family life, Caroline lists the pros and cons. The teenager made the video – which was re-shared on Twitter – with many TikTokers questioning what it’s like to be Cruz’s daughter.

Caroline Cruz, 13, said she often disagrees with her conservative father’s views and has outlined the difficulties of having a child in the now-viral TikTok video.Ĭaroline, whose TikTok account has since been made private, started gaining new followers after people identified her as the eldest daughter of a Texas senator.
