11.) “Ted Cruz met his wife, Heidi, in Austin when they worked on George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign. She went on to work at the National Security Council under Condoleezza Rice and at the U.S. Treasury Department.” (Source: USA Today)
“Heidi is a secret weapon,” says David Panton, a longtime family friend, “because she is so warm and so endearing and so thoughtful that I think that her influence on him has been transformative; he would not have been a senator were it not for Heidi and for her role and her support.” (Source: National Review)