Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) held a private meeting with dozens of donors, elites and friends last week, a confab ostensibly about the final 2014 midterms push that also seemed aimed at demonstrating his political pull if he runs for president in 2016.
The first-term senator’s moves in advance of the presidential race have run parallel with his efforts to dull establishment GOP memories of the 2013 government shutdown he played a role in. To that end, part of his efforts in the next year will be showing that he has expanded reach within his own party…
Some of Cruz’s recent political hires, like Jamestown Associates’ Jason Miller, were on hand. Cruz never mentioned 2016 directly, and Kristol only did in terms of strategy and agenda, people familiar with the event said.
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