The county clerk who has refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples received little sympathy from U.S. District Judge David Bunning or Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, but Kim Davis seems to have found an ally in presidential hopeful Ted Cruz.

The Texas senator was headed to the Bluegrass State on Tuesday to show his support for Davis, who has been jailed in contempt of court over her refusal to comply with the Supreme Court's landmark Obergefell ruling, which earlier this year legalized gay marriage across the nation, the Washington Post reported.

"It is important to Sen. Cruz for Kim Davis to know that he supports her and will do everything in his power to ensure her situation is resolved and that no other Americans who strive to live out their faith fall victim to religious persecution by the government," his campaign noted in a statement. "The First Amendment ... is foundational to all other freedoms and Sen. Cruz is committed to defending it."

The presidential candidate plans to hold a news conference outside the Carter County Detention Center, where Davis has been held since Thursday. Last week, Cruz claimed that the clerk's case showed that "judicial lawlessness turned into judicial tyranny" and that "those who are persecuting Kim Davis believe that Christians should not serve in public office," according to the newspaper.

In his first ruling against Davis, Bunning had argued that her religious objections to same-sex marriage do not "excuse her from performing the duties that she took an oath to perform," the Wall Street Journal noted. But Cruz has said that if he were to move into the White House, he would instruct federal agencies to end what he describes as the persecution of religious freedom, NBC News reported.

The Texan, meanwhile, will not be the only GOP presidential hopeful looking to benefit from the publicity surrounding the Davis case. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, one of Cruz's rivals for the GOP presidential nomination, announced that he, too, would travel to Kentucky to hold a rally on Tuesday afternoon.