In the December CNN contest, Cruz spoke for nearly three minutes more than his closest rival, Donald Trump - 16 minutes and 27 seconds to 13 minutes and 33 seconds, according to POLITICO’s calculations.
After coasting through the early debates with a low profile, Cruz spoke more than any of his rivals in each of the last two debates. But I also didn’t want to stand there silently for two hours, while others were throwing rocks at each other.” “We made a conscious decision to assert myself more aggressively into the conversation,” he said, “because if every question was going to begin with Candidate A will you please insult Candidate B, I didn’t want to be involved in that. But the moderators’ attempts to play the candidates against one another, he said, had left him with “among the least speaking time of any person on that stage.” “The first couple of debates I sat back and very much let it come to me,” Cruz said aboard his campaign bus in Iowa. It’s showed, as he’s squeezed extra speaking time from the moderators and displayed some of the skills and tactics he honed as a championship collegiate debater. In an exclusive interview with POLITICO, Cruz described how he overhauled his debate strategy after the early faceoffs to insert himself far more aggressively and strategically in the most recent Republican debates.
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