tom foreman reports. >> reporter: alongside ted cruz' rising polls, a rising star, his wife, heidi, pushing the numbers towards him. >> i don't want to be the candidate, you are electing ted cruz, not ted and heidi. >> reporter: born in california, heidi studied at claremont college. a stint on wall street was followed by harvard business school. then, she met the future senator from texas. >> somehow, in the first two weeks, ted and i got assigned to almost eve work on almost every project together. >> every time her husband's record has been challenged she defended it. >> he told them he would work with every breath in his body to defund obamacare, and that is

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