Ted Cruz tells students Texas may try to secede if "things become hopeless" in the U.S. — and jokes Joe Rogan could be state's president
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Is Texas planning on seceding? Not yet, according to Senator Ted Cruz, but that could change if "things become hopeless" in the U.S. Cruz's resurfaced remarks were made last month when he spoke to students at Texas A&M University.
While at the event, a student asked Cruz what the state's plan would be if state officials wanted to secede. Cruz said he's "not there yet" with such plans because the state is preventing the country from "going off the cliff."
"I think Texas has a responsibility to the country and I'm not ready to give up on America. I love this country," Cruz said. "Look, Texas, we're brash, we're not shy, we're sometimes larger than life, but Texas right now is an amazing force keeping America from going off the cliff, keeping America grounded on the values that built this country, on the values of freedom."
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.