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Ted Cruz, pulling an upset, is poised to boost tea party ranks in Senate

The Christian Science Monitor

Ted Cruz was tea party before there was a tea party. And in toppling Texas’s lieutenant governor for the state’s Republican nomination for US Senate Tuesday, Mr. Cruz certainly had the full force of the tea party movement supporting him with cash, social media, and people power. Former Alaska Gov…