Ted Cruz, who swept Colorado's delegates in his unsuccessful quest for the White House, will try to channel his influence with Republicans here to affect the outcome of the U.S. Senate race. The Texas senator will endorse El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn, according to Glenn's campaign.
“Senator Cruz is a true advocate for conservatives and has pledged to stand with Darryl Glenn as he takes on Michael Bennet in November,” wrote Glenn spokesman Jillian Likness in a statement.
The National Review was first to report the news. Cruz aides told The Dallas Morning News that Cruz will stump for Glenn in Colorado Monday. The paper reported the Glenn nod is Cruz's “first major endorsement since dropping out 6 weeks ago.”
The Cruz endorsement follows that of Sarah Palin and the Senate Conservatives Fund, a group run by former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli that aims to get hard-right conservative underdogs elected to the Senate. That group's Super PAC is paying for TV ads in support of Glenn, who hasn't raised much money for the race.
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This year's sprawling U.S. Senate primary once had about 15 Republicans running. But in April, Glenn bested six of them during the party's state convention when he took 70 percent of the vote from the roughly 4,000 GOP delegates in attendance after a rousing speech.
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Those delegates also overwhelming supported Cruz, who traveled to Colorado for a speech at the convention.
Since then, Glenn has crisscrossed the state focusing on his ground game.
A retired Air Force officer and lawyer who previously served on the Colorado Springs City Council, Glenn says Republicans shouldn't try to work with Democrats in the U.S. Senate.
He calls himself an “unapologetic Christian constitutional conservative pro-life, Second-Amendment-loving American,” and sees this election for U.S. Senate in 2016 as mainly about foreign policy and national security. He has said the United States might have to consider closing military bases to “become more lean and efficient.” And if so, as the only candidate to serve on what's called a BRAC- a Base Closure and Realignment Commission- he says he has the experience to help.
Glenn is on the ballot along with five other Republicans. Those ballots have already been out since June 6. Republican voters in Colorado have until June 28 to turn them in.
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