Heidi Cruz

Heidi Cruz is an American Goldman Sachs investment manager. She is also the wife of Ted Cruz. Cruz was born on August 7, 1972. She was a supporter of George W. Bush, working on his presidential campaign when she met Ted Cruz. Her role as an economic policy director brought her closer to Cruz and the pair married on May 27, 2001. By 2003, she was making direct correspondence to Condoleezza Rice. She appeared at her husband's swearing in to the U.S. Senate on January 3, 2013. In Ted Cruz's first two years as a U.S. Senator, Cruz was largely out of the spotlight save for appearing alongside her husband at events.

After her husband announced that he was running for president in March 2015, Cruz began a leave of absence without pay from her position at Goldman Sachs. She initially started making calls to donors, lobbying support for her husband's campaign. She delivered signatures and the payment in Alabama that was required for Ted Cruz to appear on the ballot. Ted Cruz ultimately lost the state to Trump during Super Tuesday. Ahead of Super Tuesday, Cruz made appearances in support of her husband's campaign. Carly Fiorina began making appearances alongside her after endorsing Ted Cruz and following her becoming the vice-presidential nominee, she made more joint appearances with Cruz. She stated that she and Cruz had become close during the campaigning. After her husband suspended his campaign following the loss in Indiana that solidified Trump's status as the presumptive nominee, there was much talk over her seemingly being hit in the face by her husband unintentionally while he was embracing his father. She urged supporters a week later to not give up their fight, invoking the battle to end slavery.