Sen. Ted Cruz with Neil Cavuto on 2016 race: We are competing nationwide

what but what do you think well I'm I'm not sure we're going into surgery but but I and I I am certainly glad to welcome my friend Rick Perry into the presidential race I think he was a terrific

a good job and I'm glad to welcome here gentlemen but you know what he's saying that senators are just not the guys to run for president %HESITATION governors

are they haven't records senators really %HESITATION they are working in his collegial body and

you know Neil I think we're going to have a robust debate we're having it right now about who is best to be the Republican nominee and the beat Hillary Clinton I

think what Republican primary voters are looking for is trust they want someone who they know will telling the truth and will do what they said they would do I

what I'm hearing from the grassroots the reason we're getting so much support is that I've tried every

day to do what I said I would do and tell the truth and primary voters are looking for someone who

will stand up and fight and defend conservative principles over and over and over again because systemically

that's what we're looking for I think that's what the whole debate going to be about you know he started this stance coming in and now you've got you know nine others joining in that I wonder if that if that as

as in a way lessen your appeal and then bye bye bye that you've made a big impression a lot of clothes Jack Welch let

your enthusiasm pass and I assume still does I'd like to talk to the likes of Micah mossbacher %HESITATION

but but now you're getting lost at least in the polling sauce are you worried well I'll tell ya I had been astonished at the support we've seen I think it is exceeded any and all reasonable expectations South

Carolina had standing room only crowds the local press reported the crowds coming out were much larger in fact doubled the size of

other candidates in the race double the size again bush's WGRZ still that way now are they are they

are just this weekend I was up in New Hampshire we had a rally was six hundred people the next day we went to

and just last night I was in Michigan and and and we had again about six hundred people come out people

are hungry for someone who will tell them the truth and then I think the second component of it Neil it's going to take two things to win this nomination one grassroots

support and the energy we're saying is extraordinary but still it's going to take money I think for anyone to be a serious candidate here

she is going to need to raise at least fifty million dollars between now and South Carolina and I think they're only a handful of candidates of the prayer of doing so right

now between our campaign in the super pac we've raised over forty million dollars we have shattered records and

it's because I'm sorry you raise forty million now in the first week of the campaign the campaign itself raised for four

point three million dollars that was either the fifty one thousand contributions from all fifty states ninety

five percent of those contributions were a hundred dollars or less and just this week the super pac that supporting us we can't coordinate with them but they announced publicly that

of those shattering and and I think it's because I was an impressive thing to want to change positive presidential and

versus Mitt Romney up four years ago so I'm beginning to wonder if that means senator we