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Ted Cruz Ends 2016 Presidential Campaign
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/ted-cruz-ends-2016-presidential-campaign-n567366

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ended his presidential campaign on Tuesday after failing to top Donald Trump in the Indiana Republican primary.

"From the beginning, I've said that I would continue on as long as there was a viable path to victory," Cruz told supporters at an election night rally in Indianapolis. "Tonight, I'm sorry to say it appears that path has been foreclosed."

A surprised crowd gasped and booed as Cruz made the announcement.

"Together we left it all on the field in Indiana," Cruz said. "We gave it everything we got. But the voters chose another path."

NBC News projects Cruz will finish second, well behind Trump in a state that was crucial for Cruz to win in order to prevent Trump from gaining the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the presidential nomination.

Trump's commanding victory is projected to deliver him well over 40 delegates, making it unlikely the frontrunner fails in getting a majority of the delegates.

The chief strategist for Ohio Gov. John Kasich, the other remaining GOP candidate, vowed their campaign will continue.
 
Not surprising that Ted Cruz was an accomplished Ivy League debater, but he's not a natural retail politician. I think his obvious intelligence made some of his pandering to the bible-toting crowd seem unrealistic. It lost him some credibility.

His father came here as a refugee and earned his way to an engineering degree in a second language. Impressive story, politics and style aside.
 
ipatent said:
Not surprising that Ted Cruz was an accomplished Ivy League debater, but he's not a natural retail politician. I think his obvious intelligence made some of his pandering to the bible-toting crowd seem unrealistic. It lost him some credibility.

His father came here as a refugee and earned his way to an engineering degree in a second language. Impressive story, politics and style aside.
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Rafael Bienvenido Cruz


From 1993 to 2009, Cruz was a top salesman for Mannatech.[40][41]


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As reported by the British Medical Journal, Mannatech distributor Vivienne Balonwu, a U.K. general practitioner, was found by the U.K. General Medical Council panel to have "abused her power as a doctor" after it was determined that she had illegally promoted and sold the company's glyconutrients to patients as a treatment for medical conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and stroke-related complications. Following patient complaints about her marketing of the products in 2006, Balonwu was dismissed by her employer Harmoni, a medical services company, and the GMC panel imposed a 15-month penalty period during which she was "to avoid private or short term locum work" and "to complete a supervised personal development plan to tackle shortcomings in her practice.[49]

Ben Carson[edit]
From 2004 until early 2014, neurosurgeon and conservative speaker Ben Carson made videos and spoke at company events promoting Mannatech and its products.

After undergoing surgery for prostate cancer on August 7, 2002[50] Carson claimed in an interview the following November that the surgery had successfully removed all cancerous tissue and that he was completely cured of the disease.[51] However, in 2004, in a speech at a Mannatech event, he credited the company’s products with the disappearance of his cancer symptoms.[52][53]

His most recent paid speech for the company was in 2013, for which he was paid $42,000. His image appeared on the corporation's website in 2014,[52] and in the same year he praised their "glyconutrient" supplements in a PBSspecial ("The Missing Link — The Science of Brain Health"), sponsored by a group of Mannatech distributors, that was subsequently featured on the site.[54]

Carson delivered the keynote address at a Mannatech distributor convention in 2011 during which he said that the company had donated funds to help him obtain a coveted endowed chair post at Johns Hopkins Medicine: ". . . three years ago I had an endowed chair bestowed upon me and uh, it requires $2.5 million to do an endowed chair and I'm proud to say that part of that $2.5 million came from Mannatech." In October 2015, Carson's campaign team said that "there was no contribution from Mannatech to Johns Hopkins", and that his statement had been "a legitimate mistake on his part. Confusion. He had been doing some fundraising for the hospital and some other chairs about that time, and he simply got things mixed up."[55]

During the CNBC GOP debate on October 28, 2015, Carson was asked about his relationship with Mannatech. He replied, "That's easy to answer. I didn't have any involvement with Mannatech. Total propaganda. I did a couple speeches for them. I did speeches for other people—they were paid speeches. It is absolutely absurd to say I had any kind of relation with them. Do I take the product? Yes. I think it is a good product."[56] Politifact rated Carson’s denial of any involvement as "false", pointing to his paid speeches for Mannatech and his appearances in promotional videos in which he gave favorable reviews to its products, despite not being "an official spokesman or sales associate".[57] When the CNBC moderator commented that Carson was on Mannatech’s website, he replied that he had not given his permission. Earlier, he had said that he was unaware of the company's legal history.[58]

On November 3, 2015, Mannatech said on its website that for compliance with Federal campaign finance regulations the company had removed all references to Carson before he announced his bid for the presidency.[59]

Rafael Cruz[edit]
 
ipatent said:
Not surprising that Ted Cruz was an accomplished Ivy League debater, but he's not a natural retail politician. I think his obvious intelligence made some of his pandering to the bible-toting crowd seem unrealistic. It lost him some credibility.

His father came here as a refugee and earned his way to an engineering degree in a second language. Impressive story, politics and style aside.
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