--- 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: 2026-08-19T07:41:46.991Z 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 > Sponsored content. 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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. ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] The way we get to 51 % is bring together conservatives and Libertarians and evangelicals and women and young people and Hispanics and Reagan Democrats. Hillary Clinton embodies the corruption of Washington. Our nation is in crisis at home. Millions of Americans' are hurting. Obamacare, is a train- wreck. We need a Commander in Chief, who will actually stand up and defend the United States of America. [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] It is wrong for the federal government or unelected judges to tear down the marriage laws of the states. [ APPLAUSE ] Take all 125 thousand IRS agents and put them on our southern border. 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