--- title: Ted Cruz Cooks Bacon With A Gun For Republican 2016 Votes description: The GOP senator demonstrates how to cook breakfast Texas-style canonical: https://time.com/3982223/ted-cruz-bacon-gun/ author: Alex Altman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-03T15:07:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:58:18.866Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Ted Cruz Cook Bacon With a Gun og:description: The GOP senator demonstrates how to cook breakfast Texas-style og:url: https://time.com/3982223/ted-cruz-bacon-gun/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Ted Cruz Cook Bacon With a Gun twitter:description: The GOP senator demonstrates how to cook breakfast Texas-style twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Ted Cruz Cook Bacon With a Gun ## Video: Real Time: Ted Cruz Rallies The Right At CPAC 2015 [Watch (HLS stream): Real Time: Ted Cruz Rallies The Right At CPAC 2015](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/KFQHEvq4.m3u8) (0:59)  _Published 2015-02-26. Ted Cruz fired up the conservative base during his speech on the first day of CPAC 2015._  by [Alex Altman](https://time.com/author/alex-altman/)  ## Alex Altman Altman is the executive features editor and deputy Washington bureau chief at TIME. Aug 3, 2015 3:07 PM UTC  by [Alex Altman](https://time.com/author/alex-altman/)  ## Alex Altman Altman is the executive features editor and deputy Washington bureau chief at TIME. Aug 3, 2015 3:07 PM UTC Ted Cruz prefers a Texas-style method of cooking bacon. In a new video posted on IJReview, the Lone Star State senator and GOP presidential candidates demonstrates how to prepare breakfast by wrapping strips of bacon around the muzzle of a gun and firing. Cruz looks like a pretty good shot, but the bacon doesn’t appear particularly crispy. Perhaps he can spare a few bucks from that [campaign war chest](http://time.com/3939274/ted-cruz-iowa-conservative/) he keeps bragging about and pick up a cast-iron skillet. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3982223/ted-cruz-bacon-gun/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3982223/ted-cruz-bacon-gun/"},"headline":"Watch Ted Cruz Cook Bacon With a Gun","datePublished":"2015-08-03T15:07:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:58:18.866Z","description":"The GOP senator demonstrates how to cook breakfast Texas-style","url":"https://time.com/3982223/ted-cruz-bacon-gun/","keywords":["ted cruz","2016 Election topic","Gun Control","Republican"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Altman","jobTitle":"Altman is the executive features editor and deputy Washington bureau chief at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/alex-altman/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ted-cruz/","name":"ted cruz"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3982223/ted-cruz-bacon-gun/","name":"Watch Ted Cruz Cook Bacon With a Gun"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Real Time: Ted Cruz Rallies The Right At CPAC 2015","description":"Ted Cruz fired up the conservative base during his speech on the first day of CPAC 2015.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/KFQHEvq4/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-02-26T21:46:04.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/KFQHEvq4.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3982223/ted-cruz-bacon-gun/","duration":"PT59S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3982223/ted-cruz-bacon-gun/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```