Cruz: ‘You Can’t Win a Grassroots Campaign If You’re an Arrogant Little Snot’

CRUZ: "I almost surely would’ve been enmeshed in many of the— th— the mistakes in the Bush administration where, unfortunately, as time went on, the administration didn’t honor the conservative commitments that the campaign had made at the front end. But— but number two, listen, I would’ve been— if I had gotten that job, I— I mostly assuredly b— would’ve been quite impressed with myself. And here’s a simple reality. If you run a grassroots campaign— our campaign for the Senate, we were opposed by all of the money, all of the donors, all of the establishment. It came from the people. It came from— from young people and Hispanics and— and Republican women. It came from hundreds of VFW halls and Dennys’ and IHOPs. You can’t run and win a grassroots campaign if you’re an arrogant little snot. And as I discussed in the book, A Time for Truth, I needed to get my teeth kicked in."