Will Ted Cruz run for a third Senate term in 2024?

[Tekken_Guy]

Will Ted Cruz run for a third Senate term in 2024?

[Agonized-Statism]

Conventional wisdom is that Cruz, as a proponent of a two-term limit for senators, won't run again in 2024.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Conventional wisdom is that Cruz, as a proponent of a two-term limit for senators, won't run again in 2024.

Hahaha! Just like how Cruz thought Trump was a charlatan. He's Lyin' Ted. Don't believe he has any principles, like most other Republicans. The only way he doesn't run for re-election again is if he is the GOP's presidential nominee, which I would love to see. He would lose to either Biden or Harris.

[Schiff for Senate]

Conventional wisdom is that Cruz, as a proponent of a two-term limit for senators, won't run again in 2024.

Hahaha! Just like how Cruz thought Trump was a charlatan. He's Lyin' Ted. Don't believe he has any principles, like most other Republicans. The only way he doesn't run for re-election again is if he is the GOP's presidential nominee, which I would love to see. He would lose to either Biden or Harris.

Exactly. Trump isn't right on much, but he's right about how honest Ted Cruz is. Cruz's term limits thing means nothing to him in the long run; he'll conjure up some excuse (like, he wants to serve the people of Texas for six more years) or the other and run again if he wants to. And unfortunately, he'd probably win.

[Continential]

I can't think of any former Senator who has followed their promise to only serve two terms.

[Vice President Christian Man]

I can't think of any former Senator who has followed their promise to only serve two terms.

Bob Corker

[MargieCat]

If he thinks he can win, he will run.

A lot of it will depend on what 2022 looks like.

He is pretty hated and can help democrats fundraise easily.

A good opponent can give him a run for his money.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Yes, because Castro's aren't running for anything, Joaquin and Julian want to keep the H majority and Joaquin doesn't want to give up a Safe seat while D's are in the Majority

[ChineseConservative]

I can't think of any former Senator who has followed their promise to only serve two terms.

Pat Toomey?(soon to be ex senator from your own state).

[Progressive Pessimist]

Conventional wisdom is that Cruz, as a proponent of a two-term limit for senators, won't run again in 2024.

Hahaha! Just like how Cruz thought Trump was a charlatan. He's Lyin' Ted. Don't believe he has any principles, like most other Republicans. The only way he doesn't run for re-election again is if he is the GOP's presidential nominee, which I would love to see. He would lose to either Biden or Harris.

Exactly. Trump isn't right on much, but he's right about how honest Ted Cruz is. Cruz's term limits thing means nothing to him in the long run; he'll conjure up some excuse (like, he wants to serve the people of Texas for six more years) or the other and run again if he wants to. And unfortunately, he'd probably win.

I think the excuse will be something more like: "Texas needs a fighter like me to stay in the Senate and defend the country from the Biden administration's woke Socialist agenda."

[Schiff for Senate]

Conventional wisdom is that Cruz, as a proponent of a two-term limit for senators, won't run again in 2024.

Hahaha! Just like how Cruz thought Trump was a charlatan. He's Lyin' Ted. Don't believe he has any principles, like most other Republicans. The only way he doesn't run for re-election again is if he is the GOP's presidential nominee, which I would love to see. He would lose to either Biden or Harris.

Exactly. Trump isn't right on much, but he's right about how honest Ted Cruz is. Cruz's term limits thing means nothing to him in the long run; he'll conjure up some excuse (like, he wants to serve the people of Texas for six more years) or the other and run again if he wants to. And unfortunately, he'd probably win.

I think the excuse will be something more like: "Texas needs a fighter like me to stay in the Senate and defend the country from the Biden administration's woke Socialist agenda."

Yeah, he'll just use something like that (about public service and/or fighting for Texans) if he needs to to run for reelection.

[Mr. Smith]

I can't think of any former Senator who has followed their promise to only serve two terms.

Bill Frist, which is how we ended up with Cocaine Mitch in the first place.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Yes, although he’ll also go for the presidency if Trump doesn’t run. He’ll probably still fail to get the nomination and will be better placed to do so if he is still Senator when Texas next goes blue.

[MarkD]

I can't think of any former Senator who has followed their promise to only serve two terms.

Pat Toomey?(soon to be ex senator from your own state).

Besides Toomey, former Senators Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint also made two promises to limit their terms and kept both promises. Toomey, Coburn, and DeMint first ran for the House and made promises to limit themselves to three terms, and they each kept those promises. Then when each of them ran for the Senate, they promised to limit themselves to two terms, and they kept those promises as well (Coburn and DeMint both resigned from the Senate before completing their second terms). Also, DeMint's predecessor in SC-04, Bob Inglis, also pledged to serve only three consecutive terms in the House, and in 1998 he kept that promise (ran for the Senate instead). (When DeMint ran for Senate in 2004, Inglis ran for SC-04 once again, and this time he did not promise to term limit himself. He won 2004, 2006, and 2008, and started running for a fourth consecutive term in 2010, but lost the GOP primary to Trey Gowdy. And by 2016 Inglis was a never-Trumper.)

Two other posters in this thread have pointed to two consecutive Class 1 Senators from Tennessee who made promises to limit themselves to just two terms and both kept their promises: Bill Frist (1995-2007) and Bob Corker (2007-2019). Other Senators who have pledged to serve just two terms and kept their pledge include Wayne Allard and Chuck Hagel (both 1997-2009).

EDIT: I almost forgot! I say and I vote that Ted will not run for another term.

[Progressive Pessimist]

I can't think of any former Senator who has followed their promise to only serve two terms.

Bill Frist, which is how we ended up with Cocaine Mitch in the first place.

I've always been back and forth on whether I support term limits for Senators. I didn't know this before, so this has now made me 100% against them.

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I can't think of any former Senator who has followed their promise to only serve two terms.

Bob Corker

Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn didn't even bother with the full 2nd term.

[Non Swing Voter]

Why would we think for one second that an obvious sociopath would abide by a 2 term pledge.  The modern GOP has no dignity anyway, look at what Graham said/did on SCOTUS nominations.

[Calthrina950]

Yes, and he will come up with some excuse to justify his decision doing so.

[Xing]

Plenty of Senators say that they want to serve only two terms... until they come close to finishing their second term. Johnson seems like another example.

[President Johnson]

I can't think of any former Senator who has followed their promise to only serve two terms.

Bob Corker

Well, wasn't he essentially forced out by Trump endorsing Blackburn? Who would have won the primary even without Trump's involvement, I believe.

As for Cruz, I think he runs again unless he sees a chance in a Trump-free Republican presidential primary.

[brucejoel99]

I can't think of any former Senator who has followed their promise to only serve two terms.

Bob Corker

Well, wasn't he essentially forced out by Trump endorsing Blackburn? Who would have won the primary even without Trump's involvement, I believe.

As for Cruz, I think he runs again unless he sees a chance in a Trump-free Republican presidential primary.

Blackburn didn't primary him; she didn't get into the race 'til well after he'd announced his retirement. He retired for the same reason that guys like Lamar Alexander & Paul Ryan retired: they just didn't like the new D.C. under the Trump era.

[Ferguson97]

Yeah I think so especially if Trump runs in 2024.

[THG]

I can't think of any former Senator who has followed their promise to only serve two terms.

Bob Corker

Well, wasn't he essentially forced out by Trump endorsing Blackburn? Who would have won the primary even without Trump's involvement, I believe.

As for Cruz, I think he runs again unless he sees a chance in a Trump-free Republican presidential primary.

Blackburn didn't primary him; she didn't get into the race 'til well after he'd announced his retirement. He retired for the same reason that guys like Lamar Alexander & Paul Ryan retired: they just didn't like the new D.C. under the Trump era.

I’d wager that the main reason Lamar Alexander retired was because of the fact that he was 80.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Cruz is safe anyways Cookie Damage believes he's not