Sen. Ted Cruz took a break from the campaign trail Wednesday night to showcase a more personal side of himself in an interview with ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel.
The host asked the GOP presidential candidate what his favorite cereal was, but Cruz surprised Kimmel with his response.
“Serial killer or cereal?” Cruz asked.
The answer seemed to be a wink at the persistent, joking theories that Cruz is the notorious unknown serial killer who terrorized northern California in the 1960s and ’70s.
The interview ranged from hard-hitting policy questions about patrolling U.S. majority Muslim neighborhoods to softball ones. Cruz admitted his first concert was Men at Work, a “very tame” show. He compared the calm event to a show he went to years later by Pink Floyd, when he encountered a cop in uniform at the show smoking marijuana.
Cruz also admitted politics and constitutional law was not always his forte. The Texas senator said he had had plans to run off to Hollywood and pursue acting.
“I wanted to be an actor … when I was in high school, I did a lot of shows and actually thought about dropping out of school and heading to California and being an actor,” Cruz said.
Cruz recalled his parents’ “horrified” reaction. He admitted he wouldn’t have made it in Hollywood because he “didn’t have good looks and didn’t have talent.”
The Tea Party darling was in southern California for a fundraising trip. He told Kimmel contrary to popular belief, California has more Republicans than does Texas.
