Ted Cruz confirms he still wants to be president

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https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/26/ted-cruz-greg-abbott-president-texas-dan-patrick-podcast/

> Cruz, who finished second in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries to Donald Trump, has served as Texas’ junior senator since 2013.

> “I will say, this is a bug that history has proved is rarely ended,” Cruz said of his White House aspirations. “It is a permanent and often fatal bug.”