Sen. Ted Cruz Shares 7 MAJOR Victories For Conservatives

Sen. Ted Cruz recently spoke at the Faith & Freedom Coalition (it’s kinda like CPAC) and gave a really great speech. It wasn’t just one of those “amp you up” kind of speeches either. There was substance. He actually listed out seven victories that we as conservatives have obtained, and I think it’s REALLY important to remember them.

Here are the seven biggest victories, per Cruz.

Conservative judges:

“Let’s start with number one: judges. Principled, constitutionalist judges defending our rights. We see those on the federal courts all across the country. We see it in Justice Neil Gorsuch. And let me be one to thank God for the victory we had this week in the Colorado baker’s case.”

Pro-life stances:

“A second victory concerns life. Men and women here, you have devoted your lives to defending human life, to defending innocent life. Every life as a precious gift from God that deserves to be protected from the moment of conception until the moment of natural death.

“What we have seen in the last year and a half, significant victories preserving innocent life. The very beginning of the Trump Administration we saw a return to the Mexico City rules, which means that our foreign aid will no longer be used to fund abortions overseas.

“We saw the Administration pull out of funding, the U.N. Population Fund, which was complicit in China’s horrific practices of forced sterilizations and forced abortions. We saw HHS issue new rules, returning to the old rules, prohibiting taxpayer funding from going to Planned Parenthood in clinics that provide abortions.

“Not only that, we saw the Administration rescind the abhorrent, so-called ‘contraceptive mandate’ in Obamacare.”

Tax Reform:

“Third major victory is the incredible tax cut we saw in December. A tax cut: cutting taxes on small businesses, cutting taxes on farmers, cutting taxes on ranchers, cutting taxes on families. Doubling the standard deduction. What does that mean? That for a couple the standard deduction goes from 12,000 to 24,000. That means next year 90 percent of Americans will be able to fill out your taxes on a postcard.

“Now personally, I think it should be 100 percent and we ought to continue to a simple flat tax and we should abolish the IRS. But 90 percent is a good start.”

Obamacare’s individual mandate:

“Fourth major victory: we repealed the Obamacare individual mandate. Now that is a big deal. That is something I led the fight to do in the Senate. And I’ll tell you, back in October, there were maybe a half dozen senators supporting us. Most of the conference said look, ‘We made a run at Obamacare twice. We came up short. Let’s not muck up tax reform with Obamacare.’ And a handful of us began making the case both publicly and privately that this made sense. That it made sense for the 6.5 million people. Here is how the Obamacare individual mandate works. Every year the IRS fines 6.5 million Americans because they cannot afford health insurance. Of those, roughly 80 percent earn $50,000 a year or less. Roughly, 40 percent earn $25,000 a year or less. About a million are Texans.”

School choice:

“Victory number five: school choice. An amendment that I introduced on the tax bill became the only amendment actually adopted on the Senate floor. It took College 529 savings plans, very, very popular tax advantaged plans that you can save for your kids or grandkids to go to college, and it expanded them to cover K-12 education. To cover public school, private school, religious school, parochial school, your choice, up to $10,000 per child per year.”

The US Embassy in Jerusalem:

“The sixth major victory, just a few weeks ago, finally, finally, finally, the United States opened our embassy in Jerusalem. I was incredibly privileged to be in Israel, to be in Jerusalem, at that embassy opening. To stand there, it was the 70th anniversary of the creation of the modern state of Israel. 70 years ago when David Ben-Gurion declared the state of Israel, eleven minutes later Harry S. Truman recognized Israel. Kind of embarrassed it took us that long. But Presidents in both parties have promised to move our embassy to Jerusalem. Presidents in both parties had broken that promise. We had a year and a half battle in the Trump Administration. I energetically argued for moving the embassy, and President Trump made the right decision and now our embassy is in Jerusalem, the once and eternal capital of Israel.”

Ditching the Iran Nuclear Deal:

“The same week that we opened our embassy, the President made the decision, the right decision, to withdraw from the disastrous Obama Iran nuclear deal. President Obama had sent tens of billions of dollars to the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. The Ayatollah Khamenei who chants “death to America” and “death to Israel” When he says that, I believe him. That deal would have led inexorably to the Ayatollah having nuclear weapons. Once again, there was a battle in the Trump Administration. Do we stay in the deal? Do we pull out? I energetically urged the President the right thing to do for the national security of this country is to pull out of the deal and use every force we have, economic, diplomatic, and if need be military, to ensure that the Ayatollah never, ever, ever gets nuclear weapons.”

It’s easy to become discouraged, which is why it’s so important to constantly remind ourselves of the GOOD things that are happening. We ARE seeing political victories.

I just love Cruz’s optimism.

“Seven victories and more to come.”

h/t The Right Scoop