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| Ted Cruz |
The
senator is known as a Tea Party firebrand. What he’s not known as is a hidden
geek who can’t get enough of ‘Candy Crush.’ He tells The Daily Beast why he
can’t have a console.
Long before Ted Cruz became a
senator from Texas, he was a gamer. He’s known for being pugilistic on the
Senate floor, but sometimes he’d rather be fighting cartoon zombies on his
iPhone.
It’s an uncommon lens through which to view Cruz, a
controversial conservative figure who is now running for the highest political
office in the country. Cruz’s video game habit fits into a largely hidden geek
persona that lurks just behind his better-known public reputation as an obstinate
Tea Party firebrand.
His passion for video games, and the way he uses them to connect with his children, cuts through some of that.
“I play with my daughters,” he told The Daily Beast. “One of the
fun things that I do with Caroline and Catherine is we get on the iPhone or the
iPad and play games. Drives my wife crazy. She doesn’t like it, but both girls
like to curl up and play games. In our household, I’m the one in charge of
taking the girls to Chuck E. Cheese, and it’s not much of a secret that I don’t
mind doing so. I’m trying to get brownie points from [his wife] Heidi for
taking them to Chuck E. Cheese, and she’s like, ‘What, are you kidding? You
have more fun there than they do.’”
Geeks are cool now, they rule the world. So Cruz’s love for video games
is an admission that presidential candidates have only really been able to make
in the past few years.
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