Announcing his presidential bid at Liberty University is giving Ted Cruz something that some candidates dream of: A massive crowd that has to be there. The Texas senator is speaking at the Christian university's convocation, a mandatory event for the school's students, held in the made-for-TV Vines center.
Not everyone enrolled at Liberty University, which says it has more than 13,500 residential students, is thrilled by this. According to an organizer with Young Americans for Liberty, the group started in 2008 by former Texas Representative Ron Paul, around a dozen Liberty undergrads had been ready to start a Students for Rand Paul chapter. They took the Cruz visit as an opportunity to start promoting the cause and signing up their peers.
