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WATCH LIVE: Ted Cruz's Presidential Campaign Announcement

The Texas Senator elaborates on his 2016 plans in a speech at Liberty University Monday morning.

On Monday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz became the first candidate to officially launch a 2016 presidential campaign, tweeting out his plans just after midnight with a video titled "A Time for Truth."

"It's a time for truth, a time to rise to the challenge, just as Americans have always done," Cruz says in the 30-second clip, over stock images of Little League games, bridges, and churches in cornfields. "I believe in America and her people, and I believe we can stand up and restore our promise. It's going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again. And I'm ready to stand with you to lead the fight."

Cruz is expected to elaborate this morning, with a speech at Liberty University, a conservative Evangelical college in Lynchburg, Virginia, that has been called the "Vatican of fundamentalism." The location—and likely the speech itself—is a signal that Cruz plans on targeting his White House run at the Christian Right and Tea Party voters. That's not surprising, given Cruz's dogmatic, even zealous, politics—the question now is whether he'll say anything new.

Watch the speech below: