While the rest of the world was discovering one Christian rap group’s sold-out confessional song that professed their love and admiration for Sen. Ted Cruz, Cruz was making a deep confession of his own to The Daily Beast.
Cruz told The Daily Beast that he is a video game addict.
Cruz is apparently playing three different games right now — “Plants vs. Zombies,” “The Creeps!” and the super-popular “Candy Crush.”
The 2016 presidential candidate bragged that he was in the 217th level of “Crush.”
And it is not just about bragging rights. Cruz said that it helps him connect with his daughters.
“I play with my daughters,” he told The Daily Beast. “One of the fun things that I do with Caroline and Catherine is we get on the iPhone or the iPad and play games. Drives my wife crazy. She doesn’t like it, but both girls like to curl up and play games. In our household, I’m the one in charge of taking the girls to Chuck E. Cheese, and it’s not much of a secret that I don’t mind doing so. I’m trying to get brownie points from [his wife] Heidi for taking them to Chuck E. Cheese, and she’s like, ‘What, are you kidding? You have more fun there than they do.’”
But his addiction, like any other, has a dark side.
“I don’t have a console, mostly as a time management tool, because if I had one, I would use it far too much,” he told The Daily Beast.
The Texas Republican explains the origins of his love for video games as a generational phenomenon. He ticks off his favorite games at his childhood arcade: “Galaga,” “Space Invaders,” “Centipede.”
“I was a kid growing up in the ’70s and ’80s. I had a Nintendo, an Atari,” he said. “I still remember the Christmas we got our first ‘Pong’ game.”
The games he loves so much turned on him and were even used against him in an attack ad.
