--- title: Watch Ted Cruz's Unfiltered Home Movies description: He shot them for his super PAC's benefit. canonical: https://time.com/4133252/ted-cruz-home-movies/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-02T19:53:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:03:26.945Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Ted Cruz's Unfiltered Home Movies og:description: They were shot for his super PAC. og:url: https://time.com/4133252/ted-cruz-home-movies/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte218853aa6bfed8a/6988734c2dce0101979e6b88/ted-cruz1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: U.S. Republican presidential candidate Cruz speaks at a campaign stop at a Pizza Ranch in Newton, Iowa og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Ted Cruz's Unfiltered Home Movies twitter:description: They were shot for his super PAC. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte218853aa6bfed8a/6988734c2dce0101979e6b88/ted-cruz1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Ted Cruz's Unfiltered Home Movies by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Dec 2, 2015 7:53 PM UTC  Ted Cruz speaks at a campaign stop at a Pizza Ranch restaurant in Newton, IO on Nov. 29, 2015. Ted Cruz speaks at a campaign stop at a Pizza Ranch restaurant in Newton, IO on Nov. 29, 2015.Mark Kauzlarich—Reuters by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Dec 2, 2015 7:53 PM UTC Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s unfiltered home movies made the rounds on social media Wednesday. The Republican presidential candidate posted hours of b-roll of his family online to allow his super PACs to use the footage in their own commercials. (You may recall Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell doing something similar last year, leading Jon Stewart to coin the term “McConnelling.”) The footage has been online since July and was noted in [a story on BuzzFeed](http://www.buzzfeed.com/meganapper/several-hours-of-ted-cruz-b-roll-and-interviews-with-family#.yo3ldYDrN2) after it went up, but it resurfaced in [a CNN report](http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/ted-cruz-campaign-ad/) Wednesday, causing it to make the rounds on Twitter and Facebook. As a sitting Senator, Cruz has never been able to work in concert with his super PAC, in contrast with Jeb Bush and John Kasich, who each filmed hours of footage for their groups before they became official candidates. **Read Next:** [_McConnell Embraces #McConnelling_](http://time.com/28036/mcconnell-embraces-mcconnelling/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4133252/ted-cruz-home-movies/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4133252/ted-cruz-home-movies/"},"headline":"Watch Ted Cruz's Unfiltered Home Movies","datePublished":"2015-12-02T19:53:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:03:26.945Z","description":"He shot them for his super PAC's benefit.","url":"https://time.com/4133252/ted-cruz-home-movies/","keywords":["ted cruz","Mitch McConnell","jeb bush","john kasich","campaign ads"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte218853aa6bfed8a/6988734c2dce0101979e6b88/ted-cruz1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Zeke Miller","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte218853aa6bfed8a/6988734c2dce0101979e6b88/ted-cruz1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"U.S. Republican presidential candidate Cruz speaks at a campaign stop at a Pizza Ranch in Newton, Iowa","caption":"U.S. Republican presidential candidate Cruz speaks at a campaign stop at a Pizza Ranch in Newton, Iowa","creditText":"Mark Kauzlarich—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/4133252/ted-cruz-home-movies/","name":"Watch Ted Cruz's Unfiltered Home Movies"}}]}] ```