https://news.utexas.edu/2017/02/23/gov-abbott-receives-top-job-approval-ratings-in-texas
Per this poll, Gov. Abbot has the best approval, Cruz and Cornyn have higher negatives than approval. I think the reality is Cruz is now battling some low approval ratings, Trump is helping him out. But I’d wager this dinner has been in the works for some time.
He is a reliable conservative vote, on the SCOTUS or Senate and appears to be a fighter, that’s good for me. I personally don’t care for though, how some portray him as “Mr. Conservative”, this kind of bugs me. There are a number of people who are without Levine’s checklist conservatism. The convention wasn’t right either. But nonetheless, he seems trustworthy on voting the right way.