“Cruz also suggested that Republicans who supported Lynch would have to explain their votes back in their home states.”
If you’re going to call out others on their vote ... mayhap you should show up for the final vote?? Since the beginning of this year, w/ a R majority ... Cruz has missed more votes than almost anyone else because he’s too busy running for POTUS.
If Cruz wants to be POTUS ... he should quit current position and run full time. If Cruz thinks the Senate is beyond redemption ... then leave it.
I am NOT saying missing this vote is a reason to not vote for Cruz. I AM saying Cruz should back up his rhetoric with actions. Skipping out on the final vote that Cruz himself says voters will look at to go to a fund raiser? Optics aren’t looking so good. And the MSM is playing this up big time.
Lastly....if Cruz wins the nomination ... Cruz WILL need the support of the Republican establishment for the general election... it’s just the way it is. Cruz is not going to win support by calling out fellow R’s on a vote he, Cruz, doesn’t show up for.
So he loses nothing by offending the squishes.
if he continues to play his cards right he won't need them..
I get what Cruz did. The GOPe hates him and we all know Ted’s feelings are mutual. Still, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio voted. Would people here have the same reaction if these two had abstained from voting as Ted Cruz did?
As a constituent from the great State of Texas, let me emphatically state for the record that Sen. Cruz is representing me just fine and 49 other States could only be so lucky.
I want him running. I want him to continue representing me if he doesn’t win.
Raise a helluva lot of money at that fundraiser tonight, Sen. Cruz!
Run, Ted, Run!