* Update: According to a National Journal report, student attendance at the Cruz event was mandatory. Students at Liberty who did not attend faced a $10 fine.


I wonder if he considered the optics of having to make his announcement in front of a rent-a-crowd. Don't expect it would make any potential donors all warm and fuzzy about kicking in some change to help him along.

It kind of makes a mockery of "Liberty" University as well.