A top Republican appears to be seriously considering a bid for the White House in 2028, which would put him on a collision course with Vice President J.D. Vance, the Washington Post reported.
Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, said he believes his longtime friend, Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, is seriously considering a run for president.
At a meeting in Washington, D.C., in November, Cruz, who has repeatedly spoken out against anti-Semitism in the Republican Party, told Klein that he had been responding to requests for him to run for the White House in 2028.
Klein said Cruz gave the impression he was “seriously” considering such a run.
Two other sources confirmed that Cruz is considering his second presidential bid.
In 2016, when Donald Trump won the Republican nomination and moved into the White House, Cruz failed to win the Republican endorsement.
The Washington Post stated that Cruz has positioned himself in recent months as the spokesperson for a more traditional, interventionist Republican foreign policy.
The senator also called on the Republican Party to break away from former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who Cruz said is injecting the “poison” of anti-Semitism into the Republican Party.
Two people familiar with Senator Vance’s comments told Pose that Cruz also criticized Vance, a close Carlson ally, for donating to the Republican Party.
Cruz also said Vance’s foreign policy views are dangerously isolationist.
Vance is widely expected to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2028. President Trump said the nominations of Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will be effective.
Vance leads the polls by a wide margin in the Republican race to win the White House. veep is also a favorite among punters placing bets on the 2028 matches on legal betting sites.
“Can Ted help formulate or blend the traditional Republican approach with the new reality of what the Republican Party is now?” said Daron Shaw, a political science professor at the University of Texas who served as a staffer with Cruz on the George W. Bush presidential campaign. “It’s a heavy burden.”
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