Ka taƙaita labarin:  (CNN) Sanata Ted Cruz na Texas zai sanar a ranar Litinin cewa zai kaddamar da yakin neman zabensa don zama dan takarar shugaban kasa na Republican na 2016. Cruz ya kasance yana neman wannan gabatarwa kusan tun lokacin da ya shiga babban ɗakin a 2012. Sanarwar tasa ta faru ne a wata babbar jami'ar da ke kare ra'ayin mazan jiya, Liberty University, cibiyar da shugaban masu wa'azin bishara Jerry Falwell ya kafa. Cruz zai gudu daga dama. Ya shafe mafi yawan gajeren aikinsa a Washington yana fashewa da "tsakiyar tsakiya" na jam'iyyarsa (wanda zai iya zama labari ga mafi yawan 'yan Democrat), wanda ya watsar da shi a matsayin "dabarun zabe da ya kasa". A yayin ziyarar da ya kai New Hampshire kwanan nan, inda ya yi alkawarin kawar da Ma'aikatar Ilimi da Hukumar Haraji ta Cikin Gida, Cruz ya ce "Na tabbata, a nan New Hampshire, duk kun ayyana ikon mallakar bindiga kamar yadda muke yi a Texas: Ikon mallakar bindiga shine lokacin da kuka buga abin da kuke niyya". Shekaru hamsin da suka wuce, wani dan majalisar dattijan Republican ya gudanar da irin wannan yakin neman zabe, Barry Goldwater na Arizona, wanda ya dauki Shugaba Lyndon Johnson. Cruz zai gwada hikimar al'ada cewa dabarar Goldwater ta kasance kuma ta kasance gazawa. Lokacin da 'yan Republican suka zabe shi a shekarar 1964, Goldwater ya gaya wa wakilai cewa "tsattsauran ra'ayi a cikin kare' yanci ba laifi bane. Kuma yin haƙuri a biɗan adalci ba halin kirki ba ne". Lokacin da gumakan 'yan Republican masu matsakaici, Gwamnan New York Nelson Rockefeller, ya yi magana da taron, wakilai sun yi ihu da ihu. Sakamakon ba shi da kyau ga GOP. Johnson ya kayar da Goldwater a cikin babban zaben da ya kawo yawancin 'yan Democrat masu sassaucin ra'ayi waɗanda suka wuce ainihin shirye-shiryen da masu ra'ayin mazan jiya suka ƙi. Kodayake Goldwater ya yi kuskure a fili lokacin da ya gudu a 1964, Cruz yana tunanin cewa lokutan sun canza. Yana da gaskiya ne? A yanzu, damar ba ta da girma. Idan Cruz da gaske ya tsaya ga wannan dabarar ta tsattsauran ra'ayi, yana fuskantar babbar dama ta yin shi zuwa Fadar White House. Dabarar na iya taimaka masa ya tara wasu kuri'un farko a kan Jeb Bush a cikin jihohin ja, amma ba hanya ce da ke da babban tarihin ba. Ko da a matsayin...
Julian Zelizer: Idan Ted Cruz ya bi hanyar Barry Goldwater, shi da jam'iyyarsa na iya rasa babban abu. Akasin abin da aka saba da shi, masu jefa kuri'a na GOP sun fi sha'awar nasara fiye da akida, in ji shi.