{"id":16952,"date":"2015-03-24T10:52:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T09:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16952"},"modified":"2015-03-24T10:52:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T09:52:37","slug":"u-s-presidential-election-4-the-first-republican-to-declare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16952","title":{"rendered":"U.S. presidential election (4): the first Republican to declare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the first Republican to formally declare his bid to become the party&#8217;s candidate in next year&#8217;s US presidential election is Ted Cruz, a hard-line conservative. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/24\/us\/politics\/ted-cruz-a-smart-conservative-with-sharp-elbows.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&amp;smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;_r=0\">this piece <\/a>in the &#8220;New York Times&#8221; puts it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Those who have known him for years say Mr. Cruz always seemed both driven to advance and savvy in his tactics, and very likely to seize a politically expedient moment for personal gain.<\/p>\n<p>But what has surprised them most, many said, is watching his evolution from a practical, Ivy League-educated lawyer and Republican insider into the Tea Party firebrand who helped orchestrate a strategy that ultimately shut down the federal government for 16 days in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>What seems clear now is that at least in strategic terms, Mr. Cruz sees his opening in 2016 as being the most conservative contender in the presidential field, bar none.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the first Republican to formally declare his bid to become the party&#8217;s candidate in next year&#8217;s US presidential election is Ted Cruz, a hard-line conservative. As this piece in the &#8220;New York Times&#8221; puts it: &#8220;Those who have known him for years say Mr. Cruz always seemed both driven to advance and savvy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16955,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16952\/revisions\/16955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}