Ted Cruz's Nomination Bid Begins With Web Domain Hijacking From the Left

Adversaries leverage TedCruzForAmerica.com and TedCruz.com

The political story of the day comes with a guerrilla marketing sidebar.

As Ted Cruz, the U.S. Republican senator from Texas, formally announced today he's running for president in 2016, online viewers who searched for his campaign's official website may have instead stumbled upon a pair of destinations that promote ideas that are quite opposite of the aspiring White House candidate's.

TedCruz.com visitors are seeing the following message in large, white copy against a static, black background: "Support President Obama.

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