Ted Cruz: Obama’s ‘Lasting Legacy’ Will Be Creating Republican Leaders

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore President Obama’s “longest lasting legacy” will be helping to create a new group of Republican leaders, says Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

Cruz, speaking at the Cuyahoga County GOP Lincoln Day dinner in Ohio on Thursday, made the comments while assessing why Republicans lost the 2012 presidential race. Cruz said Democrats controlled the perception of their party and the Republican Party.

“You want to know what happened last election cycle? We didn’t win the argument for the American people,” Cruz said Thursday night according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
“The Democrats’ story is the Republicans are the party of the rich, the Democrats are the party of everybody else. And if that’s the narrative people believe, we’ll never win another national election.”

But in the end, Obama’s time in office will help create a new set of Republican leaders, Cruz added.

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