Despite a pledge to steer clear of endorsing incumbents, Ted Cruz financially backed a handful of Senate Republicans, including fellow Texan John Cornyn Cruz’s leadership political action committee, Jobs Growth and Freedom Fund, made only five donations in the first six months of its existence, and all of those dollars went to incumbents. On May 10, 2013, according to Federal Election Commission records, Cruz wrote a $2,500 check to the campaign of Cornyn.Read More
Cruz also handed out four other $2,500 donations to incumbents that same day: Jim Inhofe, Mike Lee (Utah), Risch and Tim Scott, who was appointed to the Senate after Jim DeMint resigned and ran in 2014 for the remaining years of DeMint’s term.Read More
FreedomWorks endorsed Risch on March 17, 2014.Read More
