Cruz, Jindal, Ryan urge midterm turnout

Three Republicans rumored to be considering presidential runs for 2016 headed to an Iowa religious banquet to push conservatives to vote in this year’s midterm elections

As they courted voters in the first state to hold a formal presidential electoral event every four years, Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.) made slightly different cases for voting, The Associated Press reported.

{mosads}The three spoke at a Saturday fundraiser for the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition.

Cruz railed against ObamaCare and Democratic proposals to allow some undocumented immigrants to stay in the country legally, promising that a Republican-controlled Senate would work against those policies.

Jindal pushed for the GOP to work on its own policy proposals and not just rely on opposing Democrats, the AP said.

“My personal view is that we as the Republican Party can’t be the anti-party,” he said. “We can’t be the anti-Obama party. We’ve got to be a party that stands for solutions, stands for ideas.”

Jindal has worked toward that goal this year, writing formal policy proposals to replace ObamaCare and to increase domestic energy production.

Ryan arrived at the banquet unannounced, AP reported.

“We know the next half dozen or years or so will make or break this country,” said Ryan, who was the party’s vice presidential nominee in 2012.