While Cruz has not publicly endorsed the Oregon militia standoff,his pledge to ‘return full control of Nevada’s lands to its rightful owners’ strikes a similar chord Ted Cruz’s campaign backers are aligning the Republican presidential candidate with political cause of Nevada’s notorious and recently-jailed rancher Cliven Bundy, harnessing the same anti-government fervor that fueled an armed standoff in neighboring Oregon.
Ahead of Tuesday’s Republican caucuses in Nevada, or Cruz has released a new ad promising to fight back against federal control of public lands a shuffle that addresses the central grievance of Cliven and his sons,Ammon and Ryan Bundy, who led the armed takeover of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon last month.
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Source: theguardian.com