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Republican Senator Ted Cruz has revealed he has a tattoo of Winston Churchill on his arm, during an appearance on Fox News' 'Fox & Friends' show.

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By . Daily Mail Reporter . Cruz, who hails from Texas and is considered a darling of the Tea Party, initially surprised the program's hosts when he rolled up his sleeve on his right arm, exposing the tattoo of Churchill, wearing a fedora and smoking a cigar, near his bicep. Scroll down for video . Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas shows off a tattoo of Winston Churchill during an appearance on Fox News Channel's 'Fox & Friends' Tuesday morning . 'I'm proud to stand with Winston Churchill...and I've got to say my wife was fairly astonished,' Cruz said as he unveiled the tattoo. After the hosts pressed him about his new ink, Cruz then confessed the truth. 'Look, I will note if you look at the calendar, it might suggest something about what you're seeing.' Cruz said he was inspired to do the fake tattoo after he attended a fundraiser in California last month and saw this poster of him . The senator said he was inspired to get the tattoo after attending a fundraiser in Southern California last month in which organizers created a poster that featured a shirtless Cruz with tattoos all over his body and a cigarette dangling out of his mouth. The tagline on the poster read 'Ted Cruz's So-Cal "Blacklisted and Loving It" Tour.' Cruz is considered a potential Republican presidential candidate for the 2016 election .