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>> reporter: launching his presidential bid at a christian university ted cruz cast himself as a champion of the religious right who will energize the faith lful in the way mike huckabee, rick santorum and ben carson will not. >> today roughly half of born-again christians aren't voting. >> reporter: but in new hampshire, cruz positioned himself as a gop disrupter as the first in the field to address the people who are upset with the traditional republican movement. >> we should abolish the iris. >> cruz raised more than $2 million. >> i guess what makes us different is as to our approach as t...

>> reporter: he's the first 2016 presidential candidate out of the gate. he faces an uphill climb, and that's just among his fellow republicans. >> we need intelligent debate in this country. ted cruz may be an intelligent person but he doesn't carry out an intelligent debate. he's just a guy with a big mouth, and no results. >> reporter: he made clear today he's running hard against the establishment, saying moderate republicans wield too much influence on the party. he's setting his sights on wooing evangelicals. >> today, roughly half the born-again christians aren't voting. they're staying...

Texans at liberty university so it was almost like he was doing it in texas. he had one foot in texas. but what i think is so interesting is with ted cruz announcing, all of the focus when it comes to texas is going to be on him. rick perry's going to announce pretty soon i would bet, but he is going to be in the shadow of ted cruz because he's really going to embody that texas tea party mentality in the republican party. >> let me go back to something you said about the evangelical vote, because senator cruz made a serious pitch for the evangelical vote. watch this. >> today, roughly half of ...

Action. >> who are the poets that you read? >> oh. of course maya angelo audrey lord, my own mentor, mahogany brown. just people who get it, you know? empowering people of color who really make a stand. >> so do you think young people are truly engaged in the political world right now? >> not so much. i feel like they can be more engaged, many young people aren't voting in the elections. and i think that we can power up on that one. but i think that we just need the right communication to really get it out to them, you know? >> tell me about the poem you wrote that helped you to win this compe...

Cigarettes or a can of of beer. the notion that this is an attempt to suppress legitimate votes from minorities i would argue is actually an attempt by liberals or democrats in order to advance their, you know, political standing through, you know, very, very questionable claims. jon: juan, i want everybody who is legally entitled to do so to be able to vote, but i also want to make sure that dead people aren't voting and people aren't voting four times and people who aren't citizens aren't voting. isn't an id and answer to all of that? >> it could be. but i mean look there is no evidence of v...