Ted Cruz: “I will fight with all of my strength to defend Texas.”

Texas has not had a Democrat governor since 1994.

I went to Best Buy this afternoon, I walked in and three people there were almost in tears expressing shock. What has happened to our state?

When the zealots overreach, and they will, we will stand ready to lead in the direction of freedom, of prosperity, of safety and security and common sense. We will return to a new dawn of freedom in America.

It was not simply a bad 2006 midterm election, it was a Watergate-level repudiation.