Tales From Today’s Ted Cruz Rally

Ted Cruz held a rally on Monday morning at the Hotel Irvine. Two friends and I showed up to check it out and hear what he had to say.

There was lots of Cruz swag out front:

The room was VERY full:

There were some BIG TIME Cruz fans:

The a/c had a VERY hard time catching up:

After multiple state and county GOP representatives spoke and introduced the next introducer, Cruz gave a 30 minute barnburner:

It was classic Cruz – heavy on the importance of limited constitutionally-inspired government and the vast potential for America. The biggest boos were from mentioning Hillary Clinton (only slightly less for Donald Trump) and the biggest cheers were for eliminating the IRS (and the picture of Mark Levin drew about the same). Here’s a quick clip of a few short segments:

Unfortunately, not every attendee was inspired:

Here are a couple of great summary tweets from my friend Katie:

"It's not enough for us to simply elect a candidate with an R in their name."-@RonNehring @tedcruz rally

— Red Pickle (@redsoutrage) April 11, 2016

"We'll have a President not afraid to say radical Islamic terrorism"- @tedcruz

— Red Pickle (@redsoutrage) April 11, 2016

In the last three weeks….. #Cruz https://t.co/afEaFUYcJ7

— Red Pickle (@redsoutrage) April 11, 2016

Maybe someone told @tedcruz easy on the preacher talk in Blue state ….a whole lot less preachy. Would be wise to do this everywhere.

— Red Pickle (@redsoutrage) April 11, 2016

After he finished, I got this close (note the great hairstyle of the security fella!):

I tried to get a high five from him, but he was handed a baby (with a #CruzCrew onesie) instead.

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