Lynchburg, Va.
Ted Cruz announced he was running for president on an empty stomach. Well, almost empty.

Cruz was signing a small American flag in a sea of fans and admirers and news cameras and members of the media when I asked him what he’d had to eat on the morning of his biggest day of his political life—so far. He paused for just the briefest of moments.

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