Ted Cruz stopping in Iowa on Thursday to support Chuck Grassley’s Senate re-election bid
Paul Steinhauser | Fox News
Conservative firebrand Sen. Ted Cruz will stop in Iowa on Thursday, on a 2022 mission that’s also sure to spark more speculation about a potential 2024 White House run.
The two-term Republican senator from Texas will headline a fundraiser for longtime GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who’s running for re-election in November’s midterms. Word of the event, which will be held in the northern Iowa city of Clear Lake, was shared first with Fox News on Tuesday.
“My friend and colleague Chuck Grassley is a champion for Iowa and the American people. Chuck understands the importance of securing the southern border and I’m proud to fight with him every day to hold the corrupt and deeply politicized Biden administration accountable on the Judiciary Committee,” Cruz said in a statement.
Grassley told Fox News that “Texas is ground zero for the border crisis. Last year, I joined Sen. Ted Cruz in the Rio Grande Valley and heard from border patrol agents how the Biden administration’s policies are enabling the drug cartel and human smuggling rings to infiltrate our southern border. Fentanyl is pouring into the interior United States, including communities in Iowa where we’ve experienced historic overdose deaths in our state.”
“Sen. Cruz and I are working to hold the Biden administration accountable, secure the border and rein in Big Tech,” Grassley said.
And he argued that “it’s imperative Republicans take back the Senate majority this fall so we can get America back on the right track.”
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The latest Fox News Power Rankings rate the Senate race in Iowa as “solid R,” as do most of the other leading non-partisan political handicappers.
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