Sen. Ted Cruz touted his leadership credentials on Sunday.
“I spent five and a half years as the solicitor general of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state of Texas in front of the U.S. Supreme Court,” Cruz said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I supervised and led every appearance for the state of Texas in a 4,000-person agency with over 700 lawyers. And over the course of five and a half years, over and over, Texas led the nation defending conservative principles and winning.”
He also blasted the president for his lack of leadership experiences before entering elected office.
“Unlike Barack Obama, I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate,” Cruz said. He also said Obama was a “backbencher” while in the Senate.
“He had not been leading on issues of any significance,” Cruz said. “In my time in the Senate, you can accuse me of being a lot of things, but a backbencher is not one of them.”
Cruz admitted that only one of his bills passed, but he blamed the leadership of Senate Democrats, who controlled the chamber for most of his time in office.
Cruz is the only major Republican candidate who has formally announced his presidential bid. Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida are expected to announce their own bids in April.
