page_title: List of Ted Cruz 2016 presidential campaign endorsements
section_title: Celebrities, commentators, and activists
hierarchical_section_title: List of Ted Cruz 2016 presidential campaign endorsements / Celebrities, commentators, and activists
caption_attribution_description: English: Official Photo of U.S. Marine Sgt. Dakota L. Meyer, Medal of Honor Recipient
context_page_description: This is a list of prominent individuals and organizations that voiced their endorsement of Ted Cruz as the Republican Party's presidential nominee for the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
context_section_description: Kayla Moore, president of the Foundation for Moral Law
  Len Munsil, president of Arizona Christian University
  Twila Paris, musician
  Adam Baldwin, actor
  Adam Carolla, radio and television host
  Paul Chappell (College President and Pastor)
  Lionel Chetwynd, script writer
  John C. Eastman, law professor and constitutional law scholar
  Clint Howard, actor
  Ben Shapiro, editor-at-large of Daily Wire
  Thomas Sowell, economist, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
  James Woods, actor and conservative activist
  Barbara Nicolosi, screenwriter
  Michael Uhlmann, professor of government at Claremont Graduate University
  James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family
  Peter Wolfgang, executive director of Family Institute of Connecticut
  Steven Bauer, actor
  Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder and national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots
  Erick Erickson, columnist and radio host
  Jason Jones, film-maker
  Douglas Wilson, pastor
  Tyler Ricks (Formerly with the Ted Cruz campaign)
  Jonathan Hoenig,  founding member of the Capitalist Pig Hedge Fund
  Dan Proft, radio talk show host
  Jeff Roe (campaign manager for Ted Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign)
  Bob Vander Plaats, president of the Family Leader
  Troy Newman, pro-life activist
  R. Lee Ermey, actor and former marine
  Dakota Meyer, marine sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient
  Phil Robertson, hunter, businessman, and reality TV star of Duck Dynasty
  C.L. Bryant, conservative African-American radio talk show host, pastor Shreveport, Louisiana
  Gus Alzona, Realtor, CPA, consultant, musician, elected Member of the Montgomery County Maryland Republican Central Committee, first elected official
  in Maryland to endorse Ted Cruz for President, August 6, 2016
  Debbie Schlussel, talk radio host and political commentator
  Mike Bickle, evangelical leader
  David Limbaugh, political commentator
  William R. Forstchen, historian and author
  Robert P. George, professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University
  Andrew C. McCarthy, columnist and national security expert
  Gavin McInnes, Canadian writer, far-right political commentator, founder of the Proud Boys.
  Pamela Geller (activist)
  Debra Burlingame activist
  Roger Kimball editor
  William A. Jacobson lawyer, professor, prominent blogger
  Herb London, activist, commentator, author, and academic.
  The Benham Brothers, Former MLB Players and TV Hosts
  Don Brown, former U.S.Navy JAG officer, bestselling author of the Navy Justice Series & Call Sign Extortion 17: The Shoot-Down of SEAL Team Six
  Michael L. Brown, Messianic Jewish theology professor, columnist, and radio host
  C. Boyden Gray, former US diplomat (previously endorsed Jeb Bush)
  Everett Piper, President of Oklahoma Wesleyan University
  Daniel Pipes, founder and president of the Middle East Forum
  Bob Jones III, 3rd president of Bob Jones University
  Steve Gill, conservative talk radio host
  Michael Tait, lead singer of Newsboys
  Arthur Laffer, economist for Reagan administration
  Ben Ferguson, conservative political commentator
  Robin Armstrong, former Vice Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas
  Dana Loesch, Radio host
  Marcus Luttrell, former Navy Seal, actor and former Rick Perry supporter
  Taya Kyle, widow of Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and former Rick Perry supporter
  Gary Clarke, actor
  Glenn Beck, conservative/libertarian activist, columnist, founder of 9-12 Project
  de:Carol Everett, pro-life activist, president of The Heidi Group
  Ric Flair, wrestler
  Michael McIver, Publisher, Texas Conservative Digest
  Chuck Woolery, game show host
  Robert Koons, professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas
  David Mamet, writer-director, playwright
  Cynthia Dunbar,
  Mark Levin, radio host and attorney
  Richard Viguerie, chairman of ConservativeHQ.com
  Virginia Thomas, attorney and founder of Liberty Consulting
  Michael Farris, Chancellor of Patrick Henry College
  E. W. Jackson, 2013 Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
  Gayle Ruzicka, State leader Utah [Eagle Forum]
  Keli Carender, initial activist for Tea Party movement
  William G. Boykin, former Lieutenant General
  Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and Re
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