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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) acknowledged Wednesday that he still wants to be president \u2013 days after he insisted the Republican Party isn\u2019t going to anoint Vice President JD Vance as President Trump\u2019s successor in 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s no secret that I want to be president,\u201d Cruz said during an interview on Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick\u2019s podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When the Republican \u201cLt. Dan\u201d host asked Cruz, who ran for president in 2016, if he plans to run again, Cruz responded, \u201cTime will tell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI will say, this is a bug that history has proved is rarely ended,\u201d the senator said of his White House ambitions. \u201cIt is a permanent and often fatal bug.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cruz\u2019s remarks come after he told MS NOW host Ali Vitali on Monday that the GOP hasn\u2019t coalesced around Vance as the party\u2019s 2028 presidential nominee.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, no \u2013 there is going to be a full discussion about who we are and what we believe,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll certainly be part of the discussion,\u201d Cruz added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Texas Republican argued that ahead of the next presidential election, there must be a full-throated foreign policy debate over whether the GOP wants to be \u201can isolationist party that withdraws from the world or do we believe in American leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On economics,\u00a0Cruz contends the party must decide whether it aims to be \u201ca small-government, free-market conservative party\u201d or a \u201cbig-government, nanny-state party.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Vance, who has repeatedly described himself as a skeptic of foreign military intervention, is viewed by many as the favorite to take the mantle from Trump in 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The vice president has said he won\u2019t decide on whether he\u2019ll run to succeed Trump until after the midterm elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump has also floated Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a potential part of the GOP\u2019s 2028 presidential ticket.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose term ends in January, is also believed to have interest in making another run at the White House.<\/p>\n

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