Ted Cruz’s wife says the GOP presidential candidate has no bias when it comes to Wall Street.
“Ted doesn’t have an anti-Wall Street sentiment,” Heidi Cruz told CNN’s Dana Bash during an interview Wednesday.
{mosads}“He has an anti-government support-of-industry sentiment,” she continued. “He is anti-industry-relying-on-government-for-their-well-being.”
Heidi Cruz, an investment manager for Goldman Sachs, said the Texas senator’s White House campaign does not owe the financial firm any favors.
“I can assure you that Ted is in no way beholden to Goldman Sachs,” she said. “Listen, it’s great we have wealthy people in this country [and] the clients of Goldman Sachs have been entrepreneurs.
“The job I have at the firm is in many ways, in my view, the heart of helping people who have achieved the American dream. Ted is running on the promise of reigniting America. There are a lot of false suggestions out there because I think some are trying to distract from how well Ted’s doing in this election.”
Heidi Cruz also dismissed claims that her spouse is unpopular with his Senate colleagues.
“Those who say they dislike him are the very ones Americans are trying to vote out of office,” she said.
“He’s fighting for the American people and they want him to be unwavering. We should be compromising moving forward, not compromising moving backward. I don’t want him to give up any of the fight.”
Reports emerged earlier this month that Ted Cruz did not disclose a Goldman Sachs loan to his 2012 Senate campaign.
GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump called him a “great hypocrite” for not reporting that he took out two $500,000 loans from big banks for his 2012 run. Cruz countered that the loans were partially unreported due to a filing error that has since been corrected.