AUSTIN — Though it’s not even out yet, tea party firebrand Ted Cruz’s new book is already irking at least one member of the Republican establishment: Karl Rove.
The veteran GOP strategist is denying Cruz’s assertion in his forthcoming book that Rove pressed him not to publicize former President George H.W. Bush 2009 endorsement of Cruz’s then-campaign for Texas attorney general. Cruz writes that Rove was then raising money for George W. Bush’s presidential library, and top donors were backing another Republican in the attorney general race.