RALEIGH, (SGRToday.com) - Conservative Republican Sen. Ted Cruz announced via Twitter that he will see the Republican Party's nomination for president. He will make the in-person announcement at a speech Monday at Liberty University.

Cruz was elected to the Senate by Texas voters in 2012. He is a favorite of the Tea Party movement.

Cruz is relatively new on the political scene, and that could work in his favor with likely Republican voters. A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows 64 percent of likely GOP 2016 voters think their needs a fresh face as its presidential candidate.

The same sentiment is brewing in the Demcratic Party, according to Rasmussen, which says more than half of Democratic likely voters want someone new.

Hillary Clinton is considered the favorite to win the Demcratic Party's nomination.